Writing in The Atlantic, Tim Naftali, historian, says it’s Donald Trump**:
As a result of his subversion of national security, his reckless endangerment of every American in the pandemic, and his failed insurrection on January 6, one thing seems abundantly clear: Trump is the worst president in the 232-year history of the United States.With all the necessary comparisons.
Here's a good verdict--
ReplyDeleteTrump is in the subbasement:
Trump "has invented a whole new category, a subbasement that no one knew existed,”
said Ted Widmer, professor of history at the City University of New York, noting that as bad as Buchanan was — and he was very bad indeed — he was “not as aggressively bad as Trump.”
“Andrew Johnson and Nixon would be the two others in the worst category, and I think Trump has them beat pretty handily, too,” he added.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/23/us/politics/trump-presidential-history.html
I hope he’s reminded everywhere he looks.
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