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President of the United States from 1921 to 1923
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...
Donald Trump’s presidency is the subject of extensive allegations and watchdog reports asserting an unprecedented scale of self-enrichment and transactional politics; multiple recent analyses claim hi...
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...
Available reporting documents a large volume of allegations, watchdog tracking and legal actions tied to Donald Trump’s administrations — trackers claim more than $2.9 billion in “documented” cases an...
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...
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...
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...
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’ 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...
Only one former U.S. president has been criminally convicted in modern history: Donald J. Trump, whose 2024 conviction on business-records felonies was widely described as the first conviction of a fo...
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...
By many measures—number of scandals, two impeachments, public allegations of using office for private benefit, and an unprecedented effort to overturn an election—the presidency ranks among the most c...
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...
The assembled analyses identify a long American tradition of short, stirring patriotic phrases—ranging from Revolutionary War-era lines like to 19th- and 20th-century campaign and cultural slogans suc...
Several notable conservative political leaders have been Freemasons, and their experiences show : for some the fraternity offered networking and ethical framing, while for others membership did not pr...
Freemasonry features prominently among U.S. presidents: at least a dozen presidents from George Washington through Gerald Ford were Freemasons, and historians trace Masonic membership and Enlightenmen...
The available reporting and satellite-image analyses show for the White House ballroom project; instead, multiple independent pieces report that tree removal occurred in late October 2025 as part of d...
is widely portrayed in contemporary reporting and advocacy research as unusually overt in mixing private financial interests with public office, and his presidency generated multiple high-profile lega...
Historians and recent expert surveys place near or at the bottom of modern , with some major polls listing him dead last among all presidents evaluated and scholars grouping him with traditionally rev...