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President of the United States from 1857 to 1861
Scholarly surveys and recent media assessments disagree on a single “worst” U.S. president, but several sources show Donald Trump ranked lowest in multiple 21st‑century polls of historians and experts...
Historians do not unanimously name a single “worst” U.S. president; recent expert surveys commonly place , with Trump ranked last in several 2024 specialist polls and Buchanan frequently ranked worst ...
Historians and academic surveys most often place James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and (in modern polls) Donald Trump among the presidents judged most harmful or least effective; common reasons given in...
Historians repeatedly place a small group of presidents at the bottom of scholarly rankings: . Different major surveys use varying methods and samples, but the consensus across Siena, C‑SPAN/APSA, and...
Recent expert surveys and media compilations place Donald Trump consistently in the lower tier of presidential rankings, with some 2024 assessments ranking him as the single lowest‑rated president and...
Assessments of whether Donald Trump is "the greatest President of all time" vary sharply by audience and metric; scholarly historical rankings place him near the bottom (e.g., last in a recent scholar...
Historians’ long-running consensus names antebellum and Reconstruction-era chiefs—James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson and Franklin Pierce—among the weakest presidents in U.S. history based on failure to pr...
Historians and polls do not agree on a single “worst” top-ten U.S. president; contemporary expert surveys and journalistic tallies often place Donald Trump, James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson among the...
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...
Donald J. Trump is unquestionably one of the most polarizing modern presidents, frequently at or near the top of public “most hated” lists, but scholarly historical rankings typically place far earlie...
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...
Historians’ surveys repeatedly place James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson and — more recently — Donald J. Trump among the lowest-ranked U.S. presidents; multiple expert polls show Buchanan consistently dead...
Scholarly and popular “worst president” lists repeatedly single out a small cluster of nineteenth- and early-twentieth‑century chiefs—James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, Herbert Hoover an...
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...
Historians and polls disagree about a single “worst” U.S. president; recent scholar surveys frequently place Donald Trump at or near the bottom — the Presidential Greatness Project gave him a 10.9/100...
Historians and aggregated polls most commonly place James Buchanan at the very bottom of presidential rankings, while recent scholar and media surveys have put Donald Trump among the newest entrants i...
Scholars most often place James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Warren G. Harding and Franklin Pierce (and in many recent surveys William Henry Harrison and Herbert Hoover) below Donald Trump, though the ex...
Historians’ worst-presidents lists repeatedly place James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson and Franklin Pierce near the bottom; recent scholarly surveys also put Donald Trump very low, with Trump scoring 10.9...
Claims that “Trump is the 3rd best president” are not supported by major expert surveys and most national scholarly rankings cited in current reporting place Donald Trump near the bottom of historical...