Posted on 04/05/2020 8:05:25 PM PDT by Ennis85
Until now, I have generally been reluctant to label Donald Trump the worst president in U.S. history. As a historian, I know how important it is to allow the passage of time to gain a sense of perspective. Some presidents who seemed awful to contemporaries (Harry S. Truman) or simply lackluster (Dwight D. Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush) look much better in retrospect. Others, such as Thomas Jefferson and Woodrow Wilson, don’t look as good as they once did.
So I have written, as I did on March 12, that Trump is the worst president in modern times — not of all time. That left open the possibility that James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, Warren Harding or some other nonentity would be judged more harshly. But in the past month, we have seen enough to take away the qualifier “in modern times.” With his catastrophic mishandling of the coronavirus, Trump has established himself as the worst president in U.S. history.
Until now, I have generally been reluctant to label Donald Trump the worst president in U.S. history. As a historian, I know how important it is to allow the passage of time to gain a sense of perspective. Some presidents who seemed awful to contemporaries (Harry S. Truman) or simply lackluster (Dwight D. Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush) look much better in retrospect. Others, such as Thomas Jefferson and Woodrow Wilson, don’t look as good as they once did.
So I have written, as I did on March 12, that Trump is the worst president in modern times — not of all time. That left open the possibility that James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, Warren Harding or some other nonentity would be judged more harshly. But in the past month, we have seen enough to take away the qualifier
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Cheap shot to pile on a man who is working to guide us through a global pandemic with health, security, and economic impact.
LOL
Idiot stick...
That’s what I want to do, read more liberal blap to the point where I hurl.
Dems adore LBJ and his war.
“Some presidents who seemed awful to contemporaries (Harry S. Truman) or simply lackluster (Dwight D. Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush) look much better in retrospect. ”
Puh-leeze!!!
The WORST political commentator. Ever.
(Max Boot needs a swift BOOT in the azz!)
Dec. 18, 2019 House votes to impeach Trump
Pelosi plays politics with articles and refuses to deliver to Senate.
Dec.31, 2019 China informs WHO of unknown form of pneumonia
January 11,2020 first known death from covid-19
January 15, Pelosi FINALLY delivers article of impeachment.
January 21, 2020 first known case of covid in US.
January 21-22, 2020 Senate votes to approve rules for impeachment trial.
January 21-24, 2020 World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
January 24, 2020 Death toll in China 26
January 30, 2020 Death toll in China jumps to 170
January 30, 2020 WHO declares public health emergency of international concern
January 31, 2020 Trump bans foreign nationals from entering US who had recently been in China.
February 2, 2020 First death from covid, outside of China
February 3-4, 2020 Closing arguments impeachment.
February 5, 2020 Trump aquitted of impeachment
February 5, 2020 US citizens evacuated from Wuhan.
February 6, 2020 death toll in China 563,
30 known people infected in Europe.
February 8, 2020 US citizen dies in Wuhan
February 15, 2020 Trump declares national emergency
Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., and six other House Democrats who chair subcommittees of the judiciary panel, signed the letter to the president, writing that “we believe your declaration of an emergency shows a reckless disregard for the separation of powers and your own responsibilities under our constitutional system.”
February 24, 2020 Pelosi tours Chinatown, encouraging people that its safe.
February 29, 2020 First US death from covid-19
March 5, 2020 De Blasio rides subway
“I’m here on the subway to say to people nothing to fear, go about your lives and we will tell you if you have to change your habits but that’s not now,”
“We have the best public health professionals protecting us,” he added. “All over the city there are doctors, nurses and disease detectives trying to keep everyone safe and so far we have had really good results.
March 11, 2020 WHO declares covid-19 a pandemic.
March 12, 2020 Trump bans travel fron EU
March 12, 2020 Cuomo bans groups of 500 or more.
March 16, 2020 De Blasio orders city’s bars, theatres and cinemas to close down
March 16, 2020 Trump tweets “Just had a very good tele-conference with nations governors. Went very well. Cuomo of New York has to “do more””
Cuomo’s response “I have to do more?
No — YOU have to do something! You’re supposed to be the President. “
March 18, 2020 Trump announces military hospital ships Mercy and Comfort to depart to Los Angeles and NYC
March 25, 2020 US deaths surpace 1000
For comparison purposes.
Trump declared national emergency Feb 15.
46 days after WHO notified by China
25 days after first known US case.
14 days BEFORE first US death
On October 25, 2009 Obama declared national emergency for H1N1.
6 months after outbreak
AFTER 1000 US deaths.
http://www.nbcnews.com/…/obama-declares-swine-flu-nationa…/…;
It’s the other Mad Max
Always wrong but never in doubt
Dems now consider Vietnam as “Nixon’s War”. LBJ has been brushed from history.
Max Boot can take one of his “boots” and stick it up where the sun don’t shine. These NeverTrumper Repukes are more worried about their place in the Deep State pecking order and their bank accounts padded with multinational-globalist money than they are the American people. Another one of Bill Kristol’s buddies!
Yeah, if by “worst” you mean “best”.
Max Boot. Neo-con.
Max Boot is a major league neocon, a big supporter of W, a supporter of Hillary, and generally the equivalent of a tapeworm. I am so glad that President Trump exposed these scumbags for what they are.
Excellent timeline...nice work.
LBJ destroyed the black family and he destroyed the public school system with Liberal propaganda and brainwashing.
LBJ and his ROE were responsible for how many killed and wounded in Nam? How many are still dying because they served in Nam?
Max Boot is a loser who (I just looked up, on Twitter) has hardly any retweets to his inane tweets/article posts.
This piece of trash *article* is a nothingburger.
Why even post it, here?
POTUS has been persecuted, prosecuted, harassed endlessly, and now he’s got a global pandemic on his hands with a bureaucracy that mostly is part of the “resistance”.
And yet meanwhile he reset our trade agreements, is working to protect our border AT LAST, is appointing conservative judges, and is trying to rebuild the USA that the globalists tore apart.
It’s a tour de force as far as I’m concerned and honestly I wonder how he stands it.
He shouldn’t worry as after all is said and done obama will still have a firm hold on that title.
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