US President Ranking: Donald Trump Still Ranked by Historians as Worst US President in History; Who Is the Best?

In honor of Presidents Day, the Presidential Greatness Project was launched to poll historians to rank who they believe is the best US president in history, with the rankings featuring every single US president from George Washington to Joe Biden. As historians noted, Donald Trump is still in last place.

As the US presidential rankings showed, historians mainly do not agree with what US voters think, giving their votes on their historical achievements, with Joe Biden being ranked in the upper half of the poll at #14, while his probable opponent, Donald Trump, is still dead last.

If Trump is last place, who did historians think was the best president in US history, though? The answer is the president during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, who ended slavery and united a fractured nation under his term. He was also ranked #1 in two previous US presidential rankings, as the poll showed.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and George Washington are consistently in the Top 3, with FDR leading the US out of the Great Depression and heading efforts in World War II, while Washington helped create the United States itself as one of the founding fathers.

This is actually the third time that the Los Angeles Times has launched its Presidential Greatness Project, which it describes as "a poll of presidential experts." It showed that "scholars don't share American voters' roughly equal distaste for both candidates."

This is also the first time that Joe Biden is included in the ranking, with him avoiding a catastrophic recession resonating with experts. As for his rival, Trump, Biden's placement in the Top 15 also suggested that there is a powerful anti-Trump factor at work.

What Do the Los Angeles Times US President Rankings Show?

Respondents to the poll included current and recent members of the Presidents & Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, in partnership with Brandon Rottinghaus, University of Houston Justin S. Vaughn, and Coastal Carolina University.

Abraham Lincoln topped the US President Rankings, followed by FDR, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Harry S, Truman, Barrack Obama, Dwight D, Eisenhower, LBJ, JFK, Madison, Clinton, John Adams, Joe Biden, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, Ulysses Grant, Monroe, Bush Sr,, John Quincy Adams, Jackson, Carter, and Taft.

As for the bottom half, they include McKinley, Polk, Cleveland, Ford, Van Buren, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison, George W. Bush, Arthur, Coolidge, Nixon, Hoover, Tyler, Taylor, Filmore, Harding, Harrison, Pierce, Andrew Johnson, Buchanan, and then Donald Trump in last place. Simply put, historians believe William Henry Harrison, who only served 31 days in office after dying shortly after his inauguration, did a better job than #45.

Donald Trump Legal Fees Reach Over $500 Million

Being ranked the worst president in history is the least of Trump's worries right now, however, as he faces mounting legal fees. A New York judge ordered Trump to pay $453.5 million in penalties and interest over the New York fraud trial, and he is also ordered to pay writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in damages over her defamation lawsuit. He has vowed to appeal both verdicts, but this raises the question of if he can afford them.

Trump and his companies are expected to face a "cash crunch," according to USA Today, and he may be able to apply for an appeal bond given his billionaire status. However, the judgments against him are still big and would still hurt him financially.

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Written by: Rick Martin

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