Forum Game President's Day: Best and Worst Presidents

[Chris Craig]

Who are the 5 worst and 5 best Presidents in US history?

Here are mine:

5 Best:

1.) George Washington

2.) Abraham Lincoln

3.) Franklin Roosevelt

4.) Teddy Roosevelt

5.) Dwight Eisenhower/ John F Kennedy


5 Worst:

1.) Donald Trump

2.) Richard Nixon

3.) Lyndon Baynes Johnson

4.) Warren G Harding

5.) Herbert Hoover/W.

 

[Hoopguru]

Who are the 5 worst and 5 best Presidents in US history?

Here are mine:

5 Best:

1.) George Washington

2.) Abraham Lincoln

3.) Franklin Roosevelt

4.) Teddy Roosevelt

5.) Dwight Eisenhower/ John F Kennedy


5 Worst:

1.) Donald Trump

2.) Richard Nixon

3.) Lyndon Baynes Johnson

4.) Warren G Harding

5.) Herbert Hoover

Looks like a decent list but I might include Kennedy in the bottom 5.

 

[santeesioux]

Andrew Jackson should be on the worst.

 

[yankeesince59]

Per a certain banned poster, Trump is a much better POTUS than Lincoln was.

 

[H.C.]

It's a pretty interesting debate.
There are some that would consider Lincoln among the worst.
While there are some that consider him among the best.

Guess it depends what state you grew up in and what you were exposed to.

 

[Minstrel]

LBJ worse than Andrew Jackson? Johnson was one of the more effective Presidents in US history, IMO. Jackson was an unapologetic racist and attempted genocide. I'd have Jackson as the worst President by a pretty wide margin.

 

[yankeesince59]

1. Washington
2. Jefferson
3. Lincoln
4. T. Roosevelt
5. Kennedy

 

[GhostOfPGA]

Lol just to fuck with y’all

Best:
1. Trump
2. Reagan
3. Washington
4. Lincoln
5. Teddy
Honorable mention: JFK

Worst:
1. Jackson
2. LBJ
3. FDR
4. Nixon
5. Dubya
Honorable mention: Obama

 

[Minstrel]

Lol just to fuck with y’all

Best:
1. Trump
2. Reagan
3. Washington
4. Lincoln
5. Teddy
Honorable mention: JFK

Worst:
1. Jackson
2. LBJ
3. FDR
4. Nixon
5. Dubya
Honorable mention: Obama

Ridiculous.

...JFK is overrated.

 

[stampedehero]

Best:
Lincoln
FDR
Washington
Teddy Roosevelt
Eisenhower


Worst:
Nixon
Andrew Johnson
Trump
Hoover
Lynden Johnson

 

[jonnyboy]

Woodrow Wilson was the worst. Sold our country down the river to private interests in 1913 via the Federal Reserve.

 

[GhostOfPGA]

Woodrow Wilson was the worst. Sold our country down the river to private interests in 1913 via the Federal Reserve.

True shit

 

[Road Ratt]

Best: There have been none in my lifetime. And I won't speculate on presidents I didn't pay attention to in history...

Worst: America's latest sellouts and traitors.

Ronald Reagan
George Bush Sr.
Bill Clinton
G.W. Bush
Barrack Obama
Donald Trump

 

[GhostOfPGA]

Ridiculous.

...JFK is overrated.

I truly would love to see an alternate timeline where he doesn’t die.

 

[Lanny]

Who are the 5 worst and 5 best Presidents in US history?

Here are mine:

5 Best:

1.) George Washington

2.) Abraham Lincoln

3.) Franklin Roosevelt

4.) Teddy Roosevelt

5.) Dwight Eisenhower/ John F Kennedy


5 Worst:

1.) Donald Trump

2.) Richard Nixon

3.) Lyndon Baynes Johnson

4.) Warren G Harding

5.) Herbert Hoover/W.

I could agree with you except LBJ did some really good stuff. The voting rights act, civil rights laws were all passed with the help of Johnson's arm twisting in the Senate.

 

[yankeesince59]

Ridiculous.

...JFK is overrated.

...in that case, so was LBJ.

Don't understand why you feel JFK was "over-rated" while LBJ was not.

 

[Lanny]

Ridiculous.

...JFK is overrated.

You must not have lived through it.
JFK impacted me more than any other President in my lifetime. Well, actually LBJ did since he sent me to a war that crippled me for life. But JFK impacted me intellectually as well as emotionally. Having strong emotions coupled with an intellectual challenge is a very rare thing and should be cherished.

Incidentally, I once shook hands with John F. Kennedy. It was at the Lloyd Center.

 

[CupWizier]

Per a certain banned poster, Trump is a much better POTUS than Lincoln was.

Well that's because Lincoln didn't fare in the polls so well as trump.

 

[yankeesince59]

You must not have lived through it.
JFK impacted me more than any other President in my lifetime. Well, actually LBJ did since he sent me to a war that crippled me for life. But JFK impacted me intellectually.

Yeah, Lanny, I started to ask minstrel how old he was because the years when Kennedy was POTUS was a VERY scary time in our country's history and like you alluded to, he may not have experienced the same things as you an I.
Yeah, he had his personal faults and the Bay of Pigs was a disaster. But JFK was loved by his country and was a great speaker and a great leader, IMO. The missile crisis and his stand on civil rights were his defining moments.

 

[yankeesince59]

Well that's because Lincoln didn't fare in the polls so well as trump.

Goddamn Fox News polls !

 

[Minstrel]

...in that case, so was LBJ.

Don't understand why you feel JFK was "over-rated" while LBJ was not.

You must not have lived through it.
JFK impacted me more than any other President in my life time. Well, actually LBJ did since he sent me to a war that crippled me for life. But JFK impacted me intellectually as well as emotionally. Having strong emotions coupled with an intellectual challenge is a very rare thing and should be cherished.

Incidentally, I once shook hands with John F. Kennedy. It was at the Lloyd Center.

It was a joke. GhostofPGA put up a list intended to, as he basically said, annoy liberals so I "took the bait" by criticizing one of the elements not intended to bug liberals.

That said, I'm certainly not old enough to have lived through JFK's presidency, that's certainly true. I'd put him in the top-ten, though.

 

[yankeesince59]

It was a joke. GhostofPGA put up a list intended to, as he basically said, annoy liberals so I "took the bait" by criticizing one of the elements not intended to bug liberals.

That said, I'm certainly not old enough to have lived through JFK's presidency, that's certainly true. I'd put him in the top-ten, though.

I'm not a liberal but regardless, it was hard for me tell that you intended it as a joke.

No harm, no foul.

 

[CupWizier]

Yeah, Lanny, I started to ask minstrel how old he was because the years when Kennedy was POTUS was a VERY scary time in our country's history and like you alluded to, he may not have experienced the same things as you an I.
Yeah, he had his personal faults and the Bay of Pigs was a disaster. But JFK was loved by his country and was a great speaker and a great leader, IMO. The missile crisis and his stand on civil rights were his defining moments.

Can you imagine trump being faced with a Cuban missile crisis situation? The world as we know it would have been devastated. Look at how he played chicken with North Korea and the red button crisis.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Can you imagine trump being faced with a Cuban missile crisis situation? The world as we know it would have been devastated. Look at how he played chicken with North Korea and the red button crisis.

Of all the complaints with Trump, this is one that I don't quite get. He's been the least warmongery type president we've had in a while (though I suppose his military spending is just crazy as all get out), but while he flubbed in the Middle East (like most of our presidents), it seems to me he's done a lot less bombing of countries than our last few presidents. I think in this regard he barks a lot but I think he's all bark...
I think in a Cuban missile crisis type of situation he'd just go say a bunch of stupid stuff and then go play golf.

 

[MARIS61]

Per a certain banned poster, Trump is a much better POTUS than Lincoln was.

By far.

I like Presidents who don't cause a million Americans to die needlessly.

 

[crandc]

Can you imagine trump being faced with a Cuban missile crisis situation? The world as we know it would have been devastated. Look at how he played chicken with North Korea and the red button crisis.

He had been fortunate. No 9/11, no financial collapse, of course he botched Hurricane Maria but to his fans Puerto Ricans aren't really American. And all his failures around global warming, diplomacy, etc make themselves known not immediately but long run.

True, his response to Corona virus is to propose cutting Center for Disease Control 10 percent and World Health Organization 25 percent.

 

[MARIS61]

I will only judge those who were President during my lifetime, as the media, schools and historians can no longer be trusted to present the truth without bias. Only judged on their performance as President for the Citizens of The United States of America, nothing else. I have included whom I voted for each of my eleven opportunities. Faced with some pretty awful candidates, I voted for my Dad 5 times.

Best:
1.Trump - Trump
2.Eisenhower - too young
3.JFK - too young
4.Reagan - My Dad/My Dad (write-ins)


Worst:
1.LBJ - too young
2.Obama - Obama/Obama
3.Bushbaby - Gore/My Dad (write-in)
3.Clinton - Clinton/My Dad (write-in)
4.Carter - Carter
5.Ford - Appointed by the Deep State
6.Nixon - too young
7.Bushdaddy - My Dad (write-in)

 

[MARIS61]

Can you imagine trump being faced with a Cuban missile crisis situation? The world as we know it would have been devastated. Look at how he played chicken with North Korea and the red button crisis.

It is because of how he leads Americans, and much of the free world, that we have not had similar situations.

And promising North Korea that he would wipe them off the face of the Earth if they attempt to harm US or our allies is exactly how JFK defused the Cuban Missile Crisis. Pretty much everyone with a brain acknowledges he has been brilliant and effective in dealing with our enemies across the board. Between Clinton's Rawanda genocide and his bombing of 1500 Bosnian civilians, and Bush and Obama's slaughtering of 100,000+ civilians all across the Middle East, Trump inherited a world that pretty much despised America. Now, only their corrupt leaders hate America, because Trump upset their apple-carts.

 

[jlprk]

Who are the 5 worst and 5 best Presidents in US history? Here are mine:

5 Best:
1.) George Washington
2.) Abraham Lincoln
3.) Franklin Roosevelt
4.) Teddy Roosevelt
5.) Dwight Eisenhower/ John F Kennedy

5 Worst:
1.) Donald Trump
2.) Richard Nixon
3.) Lyndon Baynes Johnson
4.) Warren G Harding
5.) Herbert Hoover/W.

In the pre-Nixon 60s, we were taught that Kennedy and Teddy Roosevelt had made a showman splash, but hadn't had the time to accomplish anything. The worst 2 presidents had been the corrupt Harding and the drunkard U.S. Grant.

Decades later, I see that military revisionist history has taken out Gen. Grant. Eisenhower? Ha ha, military historians again. He was considered below average, not very competent, the same as when the other WW2 generals chose him to command them because unlike them, he smiled and mediated the tough guys' differences.

Without ex-Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, we still wouldn't have the moon landing, Medicare, food stamps, etc. Kennedy, Carter, Clinton could not have cajoled Congress to pay. After FDR, Johnson got the most done of any president in the 20th Century. He may be top-10 on the list. If he ruined his reputation, going whole hog on Vietnam, then why isn't Bush in your worst 5 for the same?

Andrew Jackson should be on the worst.

Yes. #1 is either Jackson or Little Bush, who killed and tortured more but also blew up Clinton's surpluses on purpose. Jackson was an asshole tough guy.

 

[Lanny]

It was a joke. GhostofPGA put up a list intended to, as he basically said, annoy liberals so I "took the bait" by criticizing one of the elements not intended to bug liberals.

That said, I'm certainly not old enough to have lived through JFK's presidency, that's certainly true. I'd put him in the top-ten, though.

Jokes are often misunderstood in forums because of the lack of face to face contact. Body language along with tonal changes impact face to face communication which is lacking in WWW forum communication.