It’s official: Donald Trump is not going down in history as America’s best president – or worst. According to the latest survey among presidential historians, there are two presidents who performed worse during their tenure in the White House.
Who are they? And where will other recent presidents, such as George W. Bush and Barack Obama, be on such a list? Here are the results of a comprehensive survey among historians, political scientists and presidential experts conducted by the Siena College Research Institute. Since 1982, the SCRI survey of U.S. presidents has been conducted during the second year of the first term of a new president, which arranges presidents into 20 different categories, ranging from integrity to ability to compromise.
Biographical information for each president from WhiteHouse.gov and the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.