To my mind historians will look back at Trump as the worst US president ever.
Already people in the US are talking about passing laws limiting the powers of the president – in order to prevent some future president similarly abusing their powers.
The pathetic thing about Trump surely was that for all his bluster he didn’t really appear all that powerful.
What they ought to do, both parties, is look at how he came to get the nomination and consider if there’s a way to stop plainly unsuitable candidates getting that far.
Hymie; I think that America thought that they had covered all bases with their Constitution. But that was a delusion. Gun laws; freedom to be non-christian; and so it goes - .....
For what it’s worth, the latest Scholar Survey (2018) US presidents had George Washington, Franklin Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln as 1-2-3 and Donald Trump, James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson as 42-43-44
As you probably know but had forgotten Trump may be the 45th President, but only because Grover Cleveland had two nonconsecutive goes at it separately numbered. :-)
In fact, there’s a nice symmetry about him being ranked 23rd for his 22nd and 24th presidencies.
8 years as a successful VP, so successful that Obama gave him his endorsement as nominee in 2016. Oh, wait, no he didn't.
47 years in Washington, he's not done a thing.
He's not a leader, he's a follower. He implied that when he was being interviewed by Obama for being the VP.
It’s possible he could win of course with 3 months still to go but as things stand it would need a major turnaround. He really is miles behind Biden in the polls, much further then he ever was behind Clinton. Then the polls were actually not that far out, as Clinton polled more votes but of course certain swing states went his way. But the news from there is pretty for him also. The novelty factor plus an unpopular opponent all went in his favour. Biden was the one candidate Trump really feared despite all this sleepy Joe nonsense.
And that was before the virus happened.