Donald Trump Solidifies Worst Presidential Ranking In Second Term!

Ronald 129 Comments

President Donald Trump, in his tumultuous first term (2017-2021) managed to end up in the bottom three of all 44 Presidents through 2021.

In the C Span Presidential Survey of 2021, Trump ended up tied in points with Franklin Pierce, as third from the bottom of the rankings, only ahead of Andrew Johnson and James Buchanan, with those two Presidents, after and before Abraham Lincoln, only three points apart, with Buchanan as the rock bottom.

Trump ended up as between 40 and 44 in all ten categories, except “Public Persuasion” as 32; “Economic Management” as 34; and “Vision: Setting An Agenda” as 36.

In the Siena College Research Institute Survey of 2022, Donald Trump ended up as third from the bottom, with Andrew Johnson at the bottom, followed by James Buchanan, and then Trump at number 43, since Joe Biden after one year, is included in the rankings.

In 2018, when Trump was first ranked in an earlier survey, he was number 42, again third from the bottom at the time.

In the 2022 poll, Trump only avoided the “40s” in ranking in three of a total of 20 categories of the survey—32 in “Party Leadership”; 16 in “Luck”; and 32 in “Willing To Take Risks”.

In the 2018 poll, Trump only avoided the “40s” in ranking in three cagegories, as well—39 in “Handling of US Economy”; 10 in “Luck”; and 25 in “Willing To Take Risks”.

Finally, in the American Political Science Association Survey of 2024 (Presidential Greatness Survey), Trump is rated at the absolute bottom in points at 10.92, with James Buchanan at 16.71, and Andrew Johnson at 21.56.

In Ranking by Party Ideology, and including Joe Biden in the rankings, Trump is rated as the absolute bottom at 45 by: Democrats, Independents, Liberals, and Moderates; and ranked 41 by Republicans, and 43 by Conservatives.

Trump is also listed, by massive margins, as the most polarizing President, more than twice as much as Andrew Jackson and Barack Obama.

And realize, all of these rankings are BEFORE Donald Trump entered his second Presidency, and the events of the past 19 months will only solidify his ranking as, by far, the worst and most divisive President of the 45 men who have held that office!

129 comments on “Donald Trump Solidifies Worst Presidential Ranking In Second Term!”

  1. Wayne Johnson August 10, 2026 7:28 am

    Though Trump’s incompetence and ignorance, from his actions, has done some real damage to our intelligence services.

    It does matter for our intelligence services to remember it’s only job is to see what is to report, and not what is perfered to be seen.

    Many crushing pitfalls in the past was because their leaders have been massively inconvenienced with the truth.

    As I have said many times, “The successes of a Democracy is based on the art of truth.” To this matter, Trump has demonstrated his propensity of being a pathological liar. To this result, intelligence has lost its value.

  2. Wayne Johnson August 10, 2026 7:29 am

    We are seeing in this Trump’s ill thought out war with Iran, as we cannot stop the mindless raining down of Iranian missiles on our military bases throughout the Middle East. Iran is getting very accurate intelligence and targeting information from the Russians and Chinese, vary similar as they did for the North Vietnamese.

    Now Trump, the five times draft dodger, is floating the idea of sending infantry troops into Iran. I see history repeating itself much like the Gallipoli campaign which lasted from February 1915 to January 1916. British, French, Australian, and New Zealand troops invaded the Gallipoli peninsula in what was Ottoman Turkey, to capture Constantinople, but faced fierce resistance, resulting in a disastrous defeat and about 250,000 Allied casualties.

    We keep going down this escalating trap because Trump can’t afford to be seen that he is losing to Iran is an exercise of insanity.
    From my perspective, those who voted for Trump have committed treason to our Democracy and Country.

  3. Ronald August 10, 2026 7:34 am

    Wayne, thanks for your perceptive comments!

  7. Princess Leia August 10, 2026 9:24 am

    Illegal and unacceptable.

    Israel accused of weaponizing archaeology at ancient West Bank sites

    “Israel is planning large-scale land expropriations in historic, Palestinian areas of the West Bank.”

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20d8qre98do

  22. Princess Leia August 11, 2026 10:38 am

    Scoop: U.S. brokers secret deal on clandestine Syrian nuclear site

    “The Trump administration and IAEA scrambled to reach a diplomatic agreement to secure the material and prevent an escalation involving Israel, Syria and possibly even Turkey over the sensitive site.”

    https://www.axios.com/2026/08/10/syria-nuclear-israel-turkey-iaea

  23. Princess Leia August 11, 2026 10:40 am

    Former Syrian President Assad sentenced to death in absentia

    “A Syrian court sentenced ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad along with his younger brother to death in absentia on Tuesday for crimes against humanity and war crimes during Syria’s 14-year conflict that left about half a million people dead…Also sentenced to death in the same case was Assad’s maternal cousin Atef Najib, who was convicted of overseeing a crackdown in the southern province of Daraa that led to the uprising and later the civil war.”

    https://apnews.com/article/syria-assad-death-trial-d4c486b5d39bbdb41108112b0ddc8e79

  29. Rustbelt Democrat August 11, 2026 10:48 am

    Trump told people to drink bleach during the pandemic. Don’t listen to his medical advice.

  31. Rustbelt Democrat August 11, 2026 10:51 am

    Rand Paul is pure scum.

  38. Princess Leia August 13, 2026 10:21 am

    Literally scorched earth? That’s truly evil if that’s the case.

  48. Rustbelt Democrat August 13, 2026 10:40 am

    Completely insane. In fact, who SHOULD be prosecuted are #1 Trump, #2 the corrupt contractor who botched the job, etc.

  50. Rustbelt Democrat August 13, 2026 1:28 pm

    The media should be saying “hotter” at this point, also the words “climate crisis” should be right in the headlines!

  59. Rustbelt Democrat August 13, 2026 1:36 pm

    OK, now that’s pretty funny, in a f’ed-up way of course.

  61. Pragmatic Progressive August 13, 2026 1:43 pm

    If Melania had been on that trip with Donald, which plane would he have made her fly home on?

  62. Rustbelt Democrat August 13, 2026 1:47 pm

    Knowing him, I’m guessing he would have put her on the decoy plane.

  65. Rustbelt Democrat August 13, 2026 1:54 pm

    Arrest those settlers!

  67. Former Republican August 13, 2026 1:55 pm

    GO COUNT BINFACE! LOL

  72. Rustbelt Democrat August 13, 2026 1:59 pm

    The next Democratic trifecta needs to completely overhaul, if not abolish and replace, DHS and ICE.

  74. Princess Leia August 13, 2026 2:01 pm

    Controversial group wins $158M-contract to represent unaccompanied immigrant children

    “The group was founded by activist Tim Ballard, who was the subject of the 2023 film Sound of Freedom. The movie starring Jim Caviezel was heavily promoted in conservative media as QAnon conspiracies flourished.”

    https://www.npr.org/2026/08/12/nx-s1-5929456/migrant-children-our-rescue

  75. Rustbelt Democrat August 13, 2026 2:03 pm

    OK, so that’s way beyond “controversial”; why is NPR normalizing/minimizing, etc. in its headline? Oh yeah, because it’s what NPR *always does*!

  77. Rustbelt Democrat August 13, 2026 2:05 pm

    Uhhh…that’s a LAW, and Trump swore an oath to faithfully execute our laws!

  83. Princess Leia August 13, 2026 2:09 pm

    She is truly a heinous person. Good riddance to her.

  86. Rustbelt Democrat August 14, 2026 10:47 am

    The word “unprecedented” in this headline is a sure sign of the climate crisis at work.

    ‘Unprecedented’ rain in Japan kills eight people

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq561gpen8lo

  101. Rustbelt Democrat August 15, 2026 4:01 pm

    Just imagine the reaction if Barack Obama had said that, or Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, etc, etc???

  102. Former Republican August 15, 2026 4:01 pm

    Trump is psycho.

  108. Rustbelt Democrat August 15, 2026 4:10 pm

    That would be wildly illegal; also, it’s insane to even suggest it.

  110. Rustbelt Democrat August 15, 2026 4:12 pm

    Israel’s on a disastrous path; it’s really sad to see the country, formerly of kibbutzim and great leaders like Yitzhak Rabin, go in the destructive – including self-destructive – direction they’ve gone…with no end in sight.

  112. Former Republican August 15, 2026 4:15 pm

    What we should have done is kept enough forces in Afghanistan to ensure that the Taliban didn’t overthrow the pro-US government.

  113. Rustbelt Democrat August 15, 2026 4:16 pm

    Agreed. We never should have allowed the Taliban to come back into power. I really don’t get what Joe Biden was thinking.

  120. Rustbelt Democrat August 15, 2026 4:22 pm

    Evil and insane.

  121. Princess Leia August 15, 2026 4:23 pm

    Americans should be outraged by this.

  124. Rustbelt Democrat August 15, 2026 4:26 pm

    Remember when the media collectively lost its mind because Bill Clinton in June 2016 spoke for a few minutes on an airport tarmac in Phoenix with then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch??? But now the media’s like, “yawn, whatever,” to FAR more serious, improper conduct by Trump’s Attorney General???

  126. Rustbelt Democrat August 15, 2026 4:28 pm

    I can’t tell you how much I despise this type of bullsh*t coverage – Trump “pivots,” blah blah blah. In fact, if you actually listen to what he has to say, the guy’s completely unhinged, what he says is wildly false, etc. Yet you don’t see that in the headline or framing of that Bloomberg article. WHY THE F*** NOT???

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