Donald Trump ranked as worst US president in history, with Joe Biden 14th

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Donald Trump ranked as worst US president in history, with Joe Biden 14th
theguardian.com

Survey of 154 scholars places 45th president behind even ‘historically calamitous chief executives’ linked to civil war

Donald Trump finished 45th and rock bottom of a list ranking US presidents by greatness, trailing even “historically calamitous chief executives” who failed to stop the civil war or botched its aftermath.

Worse for the likely Republican nominee this year, his probable opponent, Joe Biden, debuted at No 14.

“Biden’s most important achievements may be that he rescued the presidency from Trump, resumed a more traditional style of presidential leadership and is gearing up to keep the office out of his predecessor’s hands this fall,” Justin Vaughn and Brandon Rottinghaus, the political scientists behind the survey, wrote in the Los Angeles Times.

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Hahaha at Vaughn and Rottinghaus low-key throwing shade at Biden. Let's look at their quote closely:

Biden’s most important achievements may be that he rescued the presidency from Trump,

translation: his greatest achievement has been not being Trump

resumed a more traditional style of presidential leadership,

than Trump (of course)

and is gearing up to keep the office out of his predecessor’s hands this fall,”

Predicted greatest legacy in the hopefully remaining four years: Be re-elected. Lol

Man i dunno if it was on purpose to basically reduce his legacy to "better than nothing" but they certainly stopped well short of praise, didn't they?

It's not just being not Trump. But he beat Trump. That's like stopping a forest fire from taking out the west coast and calling it "not burning trees."

basically that's why he was elected. he wasn't trump. That's his whole platform, that's it. It's not necessarily a bad platform, but it's not really gonna leave much, as far as his legacy is concerned.

he wasn't trump. That's his whole platform, that's it.

Sorry, but this is one of those hyperbolic, uninformed, useless hot takes the Internet LOVES. You can literally look up his platform online, like so many places.

Here's Politifact tracking 99 of his campaign promises.
27 kept 5 compromised 1 broken 31 stalled 34 in the works

I love these comments. Required the absolute minimum amount of work/"research" and yet utterly devastating and unrefutable response.

inseet honest work doing my part memes

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