Donald Trump Will Likely Be Rated A Bottom-10 President

     By any metric, historians are not likely to rate Donald Trump favorably. While they do tend to be more liberal than the average person, people like John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, Andrew Johnson, and James Buchanan are almost always placed on the bottom and definitely deserve to be there. The average rating for one-term presidents is 30th place. George H.W. Bush, at 20th, is rated most favorably. This in itself does not bode well.

     However, deeper examination only reveals further evidence. He presided over an economic collapse and a pandemic that, like Herbert Hoover, he failed to respond adequately to. Herbert Hoover, whom even Trump was worried about being compared to, ranks 36th. Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, and James Buchanan chose laissez-faire government when the country needed solid leadership to avert a civil war, and Trump's actions echo those of his aforementioned predecessors, all of whom are in the bottom 5-10. In 2018, a poll ranked him 43rd, or tied for dead last, among the people surveyed. While this is not a solid indicator, the most any president has ever been ranked above their midterm polling is 5 places, meaning he could expect 38th place or below.

     His last year has not helped. It was in this last year that COVID spread and race relations boiled over. He was impeached for soliciting election interference from Ukraine, and he became the first president to actively resist the results of a cut-and-dry election. In fact, he is the only president to lose reelection after losing the popular vote in his first election and being impeached during his term.

     One more note: unlike Hoover or Bush, Jr., he is unlikely to gain some respect back after his loss. He is currently facing 6 major lawsuits involving fraud, the payment of hush money to Stormy Daniels, and allegations of sexual assault and violation of the Constitution. 

     Simply put, he's fucked.