As if it wasn’t dangerous sufficient that Donald Trump is cooped up at Mar-a-Lago watching his second impeachment trial on TV, a ballot has extra dire information for the disgraced former president.
In keeping with a brand new survey from the Economist/YouGov, a plurality of Individuals view Barack Obama as the very best president in U.S. historical past, simply edging out the 16th president, Abraham Lincoln.
The ballot reveals that 18 % of American adults name Obama the very best president in historical past, whereas 17 % give that title to Lincoln.
Who was the very best President in U.S. historical past?
Obama 18%
Lincoln 17%
Trump 13%
Roosevelt 12%
Reagan 10%
Washington 9%
Kennedy 6%
Roosevelt 3%
Clinton 2%
Jefferson 2%@YouGovAmerica/@TheEconomist, Adults, 2/6-9https://t.co/jcUx18cvba— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) February 12, 2021
Relating to which president was the worst in American historical past, it wasn’t even shut as a near-majority of American adults – 46 % – give that title to the twice-impeached 45th president, Donald Trump.
Who was the worst President in U.S. historical past?
Trump 46%
Obama 24%
Nixon 5%
George W. Bush 4%
Clinton 4%
Carter 3%
Wilson 2%
Johnson 2%
George Bush 2%
Buchanan 1%@YouGovAmerica/@TheEconomist, Adults, 2/6-9https://t.co/jcUx18cvba— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) February 12, 2021
Historians and students agree: Trump is the worst
Whereas polling can present fascinating snapshots of the present political local weather, it’ll probably be as much as students and historians to find out which presidents had been the very best and the worst.
On that rating, public opinion isn’t off by a lot.
In keeping with a survey of students performed by the New York Instances, Trump is useless final within the rating of presidents. Obama, however, clocks in at a formidable quantity eight, becoming a member of greats like Abraham Lincoln and George Washington within the high 10.
Donald Trump’s presidency will eternally be remembered as a cyclone of corruption and incompetence that very practically despatched democracy crumbling to the bottom. However what is going to probably anger Trump essentially the most about his legacy is that it’ll by no means measure as much as that of Barack Obama – or every other president for that matter.
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Sean Colarossi presently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts diploma in Journalism from the College of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for each of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He additionally labored with Deliberate Parenthood as an Inexpensive Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, serving to northeast Ohio residents receive medical health insurance protection.
