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The ranking of U.S. presidents by historians and scholars.
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...
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...
is widely judged by scholars to be among the presidents—often the worst—because his administration failed to avert the secession crisis that led to the and because he presided over a fractured party a...
Scholars’ formal rankings since 2023 show consistently rated at or near the bottom of elite “presidential greatness” lists, with multiple expert surveys placing him last or among the worst presidents,...