Posted on 02/19/2018 7:56:32 PM PST by Kaslin
In case it wasn’t clear, the New York Times really doesn’t like Donald Trump. The paper used President’s Day to reveal a new presidential survey finding — surprise! — Donald Trump is ranked as the worst ever. Worse than James Buchanan, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce and other perennial bottom dwellers. Again, this after just a year as president. And, of course, Barack Obama is listed as the eighth commander-in-chief.
Professors Brandon Rottinghaus and Justin S. Vaughn wrote: “James Buchanan, who was at the helm as the United States careened into civil war, was dislodged from his position as our nation’s worst president by our current president, Trump.”
How bad does this new Times survey sound? Nate Silver, a former contributor to the paper and FiveThirtyEight.com editor (which used to be part of the NYT), scolded his former employer:
(H/T to Mediaite for the tweet.) According to the Times, the votes came from the “170 members of the American Political Science Association’s Presidents and Executive Politics section.” Rottinghaus and Vaughn added: “[Trump's] Oval Office predecessor, Barack Obama, shot into the Top 10, up from 18th in the previous survey.”
Good news for conservatives though: Ronald Reagan finally cracked the top ten, landing at number nine.
Finally, ranking Trump as the worst president, while he’s in office, after just completing year one, makes about as much sense as including William Henry Harrison at all in the poll. He died in 30 days and never had an opportunity to be either good or bad.
Trump is now and will be our greatest president ever. He has already surpassed reagan. We have suffered such worthless presidents since Reagan but we are back on track with Trump and he is surpassing all expectations.what a great president
Wow, even Nate Silver felt compelled to speak out against this absurdity.
Ny times and the left are like the boy who cried wolf. After so much outrage, nobody cares anymore. Tears of rage was the last straw for me....
Really, and you expected an unbiased appraisal? What were the criteria? Jimmy Carter has to be at the bottom...a 21% prime rate of interest and the worse inflation in modern history!
This is why the NYTimes is going out of business. In 5 years the old blue bloods will not be able to get a copy delivered. These old goats have no concept that Trump is saving them from a scary alternative. A world where the US is not the world power of note is one in which China/Russia/Iran/Turkey and others set the rules. I’d rather stick with a republic.
oh goodie a bunch of commie libs who hate Trump makes me love him even more..BEST PRESIDENT EVER
King Obongo is now rated higher than Ronald Reagan. LOL!
How can anyone believe any poll on Trump after the election?
Please, they are all bullshit, and a sewer of political hate.
That is so childish and unprofessional that it totally discredits them. They are as ridiculous as women in pussy hats.
Gee... here I thought Obama was the worst ever
It’s
1. Washington
2. Reagan
Everybody else
The Left simply cannot understand how -- much less and they believe -- Donald Trump was elected President. Their irrational perception of reality makes it impossible for a person on the Left to accept what they don't like or what they don't support or what they don't believe ... which also explains their love of fake news. Fake news is fake reality which is how a person on the Left is able to deny true reality.
And this explains why so many on the Left truly are emotional wrecks throughout their sad existence. It's why they hate so much. It's why they are so intolerant. In short, it's why so very many on the Left are just miserable human beings.
Any news “outlet” which would rank Trump below the do-nothing-but-harm Odungo must be taken with a grain of salt. It stupidly reveals itself to the world as a totally biased collection of propaganda, not of news. It’s an outlet the same way an anus is an outlet, of much the same material.
Homer Simpson: Aw, you can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forty percent of all people know that.
In Arthur J. Schlesinger Jr’s 1996 poll, President Reagan was ranked 25th, below Clinton. Now he is one of the highest rated presidents even among the Leftist academics. It could well be that President Trump’s triumphs will beat a reappraisal out of those who hate him now.
Rotting house? That says it all.
Well reasoned and true. I have never seen such dillusion.
It’s indicative of the fact that Trump is always “over the target taking fire,” and these people know full well he’s been, and continues to be a very effective leader, destroying what the Liberals have taken years to “build!”
I just imagine that when Trump put Hillary away for good, the Liberal/Marxists had their “nirvana” yanked right out from under them. The country was at 11:55 on the countdown clock to Marxism, but now it’s going the other way. They now are coming to the realization that virtually everything they’ve worked for decades to put in place is going to go, and so they’re suicidal over that fact. Life is Good! MAGA!
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