Updated 28 Aug, 2026 16:10
Donald Trump considered himself the "most prominent" president in U.S. history, while besides identifying Joe Biden and Barack Obama as "failure" in a ranking published on the fact Social platform.
Abraham Lincoln – who led the U.S. through the civilian War and abolished slavery – and George Washington, the first president of the United States and 1 of the Founding Fathers, were placed at a level below Trump.
The U.S. president made this ranking available on Thursday along with the CNN station's video footage presenting the results of polls indicating its dominant position among Republican organization voters. The graphic divides US presidents into six categories: "The Most Outstanding", "The Outstanding", "The Close", "The Average", "Below Average" and "The Failures" – Trump was the only 1 on top.
Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson are included in the category “Excellent”. Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, John Adams and James K. Polk were included in the group “Close Prominences”, while Bill Clinton was included in the group of presidents considered “The Average”.
Biden and Obama were on the other end of Trump's chart, alongside another politician – Jimmy Carter – and erstwhile presidents: Ulysses S. Grant and Warren G. Harding. The list includes 34 presidents and omits 11 others, including Ronald Reagan, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and both presidents named Bush.
This artwork appears to be a modified version of the ranking published by the magazine “LIFE” in 1948; Harvard historian Arthur Schlesinger senior, then asked 55 experts from US past to classify presidents in terms of “great”, “almost great”, “average”, “below average” or “fail”. Trump's version mostly retains the first categories, but adds itself at the top of the list and respective newer Democratic organization presidents.
Trump published this image after CNN broadcast a survey by Elon University, which revealed that 53% of Republicans had identified him as president of their party, whom they most admire – which was a much better consequence than Reagan (18%) or Lincoln (8%). CNN analyst Harry Enten described this as a "historic comparison", noting that Trump's score is "almost 3 times higher" than Reagan's.
However, in the investigation conducted by Trump experts he ranked at the another end of the scale. In the 2018 "Presidential Greatness Project" ranking, he finished last with a score of 12.34 points out of 100 possible (while Lincoln scored 95.03 points); he was at the grey end besides in a poll of 2024, in which 154 researchers and experts active in the presidency took part. Lincoln placed first in both rankings.
During the second term, overall support for Trump besides declined. The Reuters/Ipsos survey conducted on 21–24 August showed that his support fell to a evidence low level of 33%, with 65% of the respondents expressing disapproval. The survey by Marquette showed even worse results in terms of the economy: Trump's actions in this area were affirmative for 30% of respondents and only 22% supported its policy on inflation and surviving costs.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/644776-trump-president-ranking/
