Who was the worst US president?

[Cabra West]

You know these threads that used to come up here regularly, asking who the worst president in US history had been... I searched and found there hadn't been one of these since last year.
So do we have a definite winner of that title?
Or do you think there were worse ones than the current office holder?

[Empire of Narnia]

Donald Trump?

[Major-Tom]

Pre WW2: James Buchanan.
Post WW2: Ronald Reagan.

Honorable mentions include Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover, George W Bush, and others.

As for Mr. Trump, while I have no doubt that he'll go down as one of the worst, he isn't a former US president yet, so I won't include his sorry ass.

[East Kerbin]

Bill Clinton

[Baalkistann]

Probably either Buchanan or Bill Clinton.

Bush wasn't the best but he was not the worst either.

[Vietmihn]

Richard Nixon, George W Bush, Reagan, Hoover, Harding, Trump.

[Omnonia]

Of those I know anything about... Donald Trump, no contest.

I'd take back Nixon and Bush Jr. over him.

[Major-Tom]

Bill Clinton

He certainly wasn't the worst, but he was still a garbage president for caving into Gingrich's welfare "reform" ideas, a continuation of failed Reaganomics.

[Valrifell]

Ronald Reagan is probably more immediately relevant to today than others, so I'd say he's the worst so far.

[United Massachusetts]

Is no one in here saying Andrew Jackson? Seriously? He committed genocide, for God's sake.

[Geilinor]

Bill Clinton

He certainly wasn't the worst, but he was still a garbage president for caving into Gingrich's welfare "reform" ideas, a continuation of failed Reaganomics.

What most people don't know is that he had vetoed two welfare reform bills before that one.

[Minoa]

Donald Trump, I'm afraid: nearly seven months and a lot of scandals are abound.

[Polar Svalbard]

Buchanan and Pierce. Those Jack-Asses couldn't stop a child from destroying a room let alone stop the civil war from destroying the nation. Ill-sighted and in many accounts supportive of despicable southern policies such as the fugitive slave act and trying to force Kansas to be a slave state.

[Ikania]

Probably James Buchanan, for his utter inactivity and incompetence. Or Harding, for his corruption. However, I can say without a doubt that Donald Trump has the worst moral character of any man entering the office, and is on a very fast track to becoming the worst President, period.

[Levangeriam]

I thought it asked for the first US president. I was about to offend many americans

The worst ones IMO are Andrew Jackson and Ronald Reagan.
My reasons are that Jackson was genocidal and Reagan was a neoliberal imperialist. Trump will probably join them, but it's too early to tell right now.

[Ifreann]

Grover Cleveland. Non-consecutive terms are the tool of the devil!

[Polar Svalbard]

Probably James Buchanan, for his utter inactivity and incompetence. Or Harding, for his corruption. However, I can say without a doubt that Donald Trump has the worst moral character of any man entering the office, and is on a very fast track to becoming the worst President, period.

Worst moral character? While I am no fan of Trump, Pierce actively encouraged slavery and Jackson hated the Amerindians so much that he basically committed a genocide against them with the trail of tears.

[Valrifell]

Probably James Buchanan, for his utter inactivity and incompetence. Or Harding, for his corruption. However, I can say without a doubt that Donald Trump has the worst moral character of any man entering the office, and is on a very fast track to becoming the worst President, period.

It's very hard to be worse than the man who didn't stop the civil war, the man who carried out an ethnic cleansing campaign, and the man who actively blocked government support for the AIDS crisis.

[The Grande Republic 0f Arcadia]

Richard Nixon, George W Bush, Reagan, Hoover, Harding, Trump.

To be honest Nixon was not that bad, he passed Title 9 which was a major step in gender quality, he pulled out all American troops from Vietnam , he also thwarted runaway inflation , he supported OSHA and signed the EPA into order. He was not the best but yet not the worse

[Polar Svalbard]

Richard Nixon, George W Bush, Reagan, Hoover, Harding, Trump.

To be honest Nixon was not that bad, he passed Title 9 which was a major step in gender quality, he pulled out all American troops from Vietnam , he also thwarted runaway inflation , he supported OSHA and signed the EPA into order. He was not the best but yet not the worse

If only he hadn't been so arrogant. He was going to win anyways, why did he feel the need to risk it?

[Valcouria]

In order: Buchanan, A. Johnson, and Carter.

Buchanan because he failed to preserve the union (which was kind of his job), A. Johnson because he essentially let Confederate big-wigs go scot-free and tried to impede the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, and Carter because, well...he's the poster child for presidential Murphy's Law, since everything that could go wrong did go wrong, and he handled none of it properly.

[Major-Tom]

He certainly wasn't the worst, but he was still a garbage president for caving into Gingrich's welfare "reform" ideas, a continuation of failed Reaganomics.

What most people don't know is that he had vetoed two welfare reform bills before that one.

Doesn't excuse the fact that after the 94 midterms, his administration was essentially "Republican Lite."

Ronald Reagan is probably more immediately relevant to today than others, so I'd say he's the worst so far.

Exactly. He was a bastard.

[Major-Tom]

To be honest Nixon was not that bad, he passed Title 9 which was a major step in gender quality, he pulled out all American troops from Vietnam , he also thwarted runaway inflation , he supported OSHA and signed the EPA into order. He was not the best but yet not the worse

If only he hadn't been so arrogant. He was going to win anyways, why did he feel the need to risk it?

Nixon was certainly not a good President, but far from the worst. I'd take Nixon over the Bushes, Clinton, Reagan...

[Len Hyet]

Is no one in here saying Andrew Jackson? Seriously? He committed genocide, for God's sake.

Right?

These threads are never about the "worst US President in history" because lets be honest Jackson takes that one by a country mile. It's always "lets shit on our political opposition's most recent 3 Presidents or Presidential candidates"

[Washington Resistance Army]

Buchanan is pretty far ahead of everyone else when it comes to worst POTUS.