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Historians generally rank presidents through recurring expert surveys that score leadership, accomplishments and crisis management; long-running projects include the Presidential Greatness Project and...
Historians most commonly place at the top of presidential rankings, with major academic surveys repeatedly listing him as the best U.S. president; George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt often fol...
Questions asking “who is the dumbest American president ever?” collapse a complex, contested debate into an insult; historians and analysts instead use rankings, expert polls and disputed IQ estimates...
Historians and expert surveys most commonly name James Buchanan as the single worst U.S. president for his failure to check the slide toward Civil War, though recent polls that mix contemporary criter...
Historic ranking polls of U.S. presidents differ by methodology and timing, but recent expert surveys converge on a clear pattern: , while rankings for others like George W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Jimmy...
Most major scholarly surveys place Donald Trump near the bottom of historical rankings of U.S. presidents—often in the bottom five or last—while some public and partisan-minded polls show a more favor...
Donald Trump’s credibility, as measured by expert rankings and public-opinion polling, registers significantly lower than most modern U.S. presidents across multiple metrics: ethical evaluations, expe...
The most recent major national presidential approval polls in the provided results are from November 2025: Ipsos reports President Donald Trump’s approval at 38% (its lowest of the term) , and Emerson...
Major academic and media ranking projects and public polls commonly place a number of presidents ahead of Donald Trump because historians and poll respondents emphasize crisis leadership, legislative ...
Historians and scholars use a mix of measurable metrics—economy, war leadership, legislative/administrative skill—and qualitative judgments—public persuasion, moral authority, and crisis management—to...
Presidential rankings since 2000 show continuity at the top and bottom while revealing notable shifts for recent occupants of the White House: established historians and institutional surveys consiste...