Media bias at it’s best. The NY Times has the Presidential Politics experts rank the presidents and then prints the results. Who are presidential politics experts? Some group picked by the newspaper. I love the comment that Obama rose 8 positions due to the recent presidential portrait. Is this the definition of fake news from Trump? I lived through Carter and there are 18 worse?
Seems sad that a once great newspaper has sunk to this level. Have 170 left-wing political science academics give them their opinion and then print that as a survey.
How Does Trump Stack Up Against
the Best — and Worst — Presidents?
Where does Donald Trump rank on the list of American presidents?
We surveyed presidential politics experts to sketch out a first draft of Trump’s place in presidential history.
Since our previous survey in 2014, some presidential legacies have soared (Barack Obama’s stock has climbed into the Top 10), while others have fallen (Andrew Jackson toppled to 15, out of the Top 10).
And President Trump? Let’s say that, according to the 170 members of the American Political Science Association’s Presidents and Executive Politics section who filled out our survey, he has at least three years to improve on an ignominious debut.
Presidential Greatness Rankings
James Buchanan, who was at the helm as the United States careened into civil war, was dislodged from his position as our nation’s worst president by our current president, Trump.
His Oval Office predecessor, Barack Obama, shot into the Top 10, up from 18th in the previous survey. Ulysses S. Grant also got a bump, up seven places from 2014, perhaps owing to a strong assist from Ron Chernow’s recent masterpiece.
The biggest declines were for Bill Clinton, arguably the result of contemporary scorn for his treatment of women, and Andrew Jackson, for evolving attitudes on his treatment of Native Americans.
TOP 10 IN 2018
1. Lincoln
2. Washington
3. F.D. Roosevelt
4. T. Roosevelt
5. Jefferson
6. Truman
7. Eisenhower
8. Obama
9. Reagan
10. L.B. Johnson
11. Wilson
12. Madison
13. Clinton
14. J. Adams
15. Jackson
16. Kennedy
17. G.H.W. Bush
18. Monroe
19. McKinley
20. Polk
21. Grant
22. Taft
23. J.Q. Adams
24. Cleveland
25. Ford
26. Carter
27. Van Buren
28. Coolidge
29. Hayes
30. G.W. Bush
31. Arthur
32. B. Harrison
33. Nixon
34. Garfield
BOTTOM 10
35. Taylor
36. Hoover
37. Tyler
38. Fillmore
39. Harding
40. A. Johnson
41. Pierce
42. W.H. Harrison
43. Buchanan
44. Trump
