It’s official: Donald Trump doesn’t go down in history as America’s best president – or the worst. According to the latest available poll of presidential historians, there are two presidents who performed worse during their term in the White House.
Who are they? And where would other recent presidents, such as George W. Bush and Barack Obama, rank on such a list? Here are the results of a comprehensive survey of historians, political scientists and presidential scholars, maintained by the Research Institute of Siena College. Since 1982, the SCRI Survey of US Presidents has been conducted during the second year of a new president’s first term, classifying presidents into 20 different categories, ranging from integrity to compromise.
Biographical information for each president of WhiteHouse.gov and the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.