During a campaign rally in Ohio, Donald Trump made the laughable claim that he was “more presidential” than any other President barring Abraham Lincoln. Responding to criticism that his late-night Twitter rants, rambling interviews, and public attacks on politicians, cabinet members, and celebrities were unworthy of the office, Trump told the crowd, “It is much easier to act presidential than what we are doing here tonight, believe me.”
“With the exception of the late, great Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any president that’s ever held this office. I think that with few exceptions, no president has done anywhere near what we’ve done in his first six months. Not even close,” he added.
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To help Donald Trump out, we’ve compiled an exhaustive list of Presidents who were more presidential than Trump. In order, they are:
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- George Washington, 1789-1797
- John Adams, 1797-1801
- Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809
- James Madison, 1809-1817
- James Monroe, 1817-1825
- John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829
- Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837*
- Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841
- William Henry Harrison, 1841
- John Tyler, 1841-1845
- James Knox Polk, 1845-1849
- Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850
- Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853
- Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857
- Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865
- Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869
- Ulysses S. Grant, 1869-1877
- Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881
- James Abram Garfield, 1881
- Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885
- Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889
- Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893
- Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897
- William McKinley, 1897-1901
- Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909
- William Howard Taft, 1909-1913
- Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921
- Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923
- Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929
- Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945
- Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953
- Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953-1961
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963
- Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969
- Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974
- Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977
- James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981
- Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989
- George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993
- William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001
- George Walker Bush, 2001-2009
- Barack Hussein Obama, 2009-2016
Presidents who were worse than Donald Trump
- James Buchanan, 1857-1861, (America’s gay president) is often considered the worst president by historians. He allowed seven slave states to secede from the nation, kicking off the American Civil War. He did nothing to prevent it and said it was not his job to “restore peace and harmony among the states.”
Trump is trying to start another civil war in America using Twitter and the bully pulpit to urge his followers to engage in violence. Trump hasn’t been successful yet, leaving Buchanan as the only leader of the United States less presidential than Trump.
*Andrew Jackson was responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Native Americans, but he was devoted to his wife. Trump, a serial sexual abuser and philanderer, is desperately trying to steal health care from millions of Americans causing an untold number of deaths. Let’s call this one a tie.
