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In reply to the discussion: Raise your hands high if you agree that Donald Trump is the worst POTUS in the 231 history of our co [View all]Vogon_Glory
(9,118 posts)20. Mine's up. Donnie beats the other two contenders
I used to think that James Buchanan, a President who did little but enable slave-catchers and then allowed the southern states to secede without going to the bother of destroying war materiel in places that then joined the Confederacy, was the worst, followed by George W. Bush, but Donald Trump now beats both of them.
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As an aside, the Republican Party bookended the Obama Presidency with TWO horrible Presidents, and the second one was even worst than the first. What does this say about the Republican Party as a whole?
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Raise your hands high if you agree that Donald Trump is the worst POTUS in the 231 history of our co [View all]
William769
Mar 2020
OP
Hand raised. He is everything that is bad about America and nothing that is good.
Doodley
Mar 2020
#4
To be honest, I'm not sure. We'll need the benefit of hindsight to determine that
Victor_c3
Mar 2020
#10
Shoot, I'd lay on my back and raise my hands and feet, if I thought it would do any good...
Rollo
Mar 2020
#12
Yep, and the presidential ranking people will unanimously rank him the worst this time. Last time,
Karadeniz
Mar 2020
#19
PROOF POSITIVE...that Trump is the absolute worst..video..1min 52 sec HIT LINK ...PROOF..
Stuart G
Mar 2020
#32
He'll be fighting Buchanan to be at the bottom of the presidential ranking list.
Beacool
Mar 2020
#39
He wins this race by lapping everyone a million times. He is an absolute joke! nt
Quixote1818
Mar 2020
#46
Both hands. It's not politically motivated to say he has steered us into calamity. It's...
Beartracks
Mar 2020
#68
I don't think so. Reagan had an ideology. Trump's only "ideology" is his own ego.
CTyankee
Mar 2020
#85
I still wonder what our nation would be like if Andrew Johnson wasn't President and
mucifer
Mar 2020
#76
Not only I, but the American Political Science Association seems to thinks so too
Poiuyt
Mar 2020
#79
What's really scary is that we thought they couldn't come up with someone worse than W.
CrispyQ
Mar 2020
#106