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The worst president. Ever. (Hurl.Alert)
Washington Post ^ | April 5th 2020 | Max Boot

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; fakenews; mediabias; nevertrumper; response; timeline; trump; virus; youmeanobama
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1 posted on 04/05/2020 8:05:25 PM PDT by Ennis85
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To: Ennis85

Cheap shot to pile on a man who is working to guide us through a global pandemic with health, security, and economic impact.


2 posted on 04/05/2020 8:07:40 PM PDT by Callan ("I love old fags like you." - Vermont Lt)
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LOL

Idiot stick...


3 posted on 04/05/2020 8:07:49 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: Ennis85

That’s what I want to do, read more liberal blap to the point where I hurl.


4 posted on 04/05/2020 8:07:59 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Ennis85

Dems adore LBJ and his war.


5 posted on 04/05/2020 8:08:21 PM PDT by NoLibZone (1 Party wants to limit immigration to allow for adequate medical resources to handle Pandemics.)
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To: Ennis85

“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!!!


6 posted on 04/05/2020 8:08:43 PM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: Ennis85
One of the worst socialist sycophants writing for one of the worst newspapers rags of the worst Media in the history of mankind -- thinks one should care about his opinion.
I don't.
7 posted on 04/05/2020 8:08:51 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: dragnet2

The WORST political commentator. Ever.

(Max Boot needs a swift BOOT in the azz!)


8 posted on 04/05/2020 8:09:14 PM PDT by TheConservator (All the blather about TrumpÂ’s violation of the law is simply a projection of their own lawlessness.)
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To: Ennis85

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…/…;


9 posted on 04/05/2020 8:09:24 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Ennis85

It’s the other Mad Max

Always wrong but never in doubt


10 posted on 04/05/2020 8:09:37 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: NoLibZone

Dems now consider Vietnam as “Nixon’s War”. LBJ has been brushed from history.


11 posted on 04/05/2020 8:09:39 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Ennis85

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!


12 posted on 04/05/2020 8:09:43 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Ennis85

Yeah, if by “worst” you mean “best”.


13 posted on 04/05/2020 8:10:29 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Ennis85

Max Boot. Neo-con.


14 posted on 04/05/2020 8:10:38 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Ennis85

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.


15 posted on 04/05/2020 8:11:02 PM PDT by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: mountn man

Excellent timeline...nice work.


16 posted on 04/05/2020 8:12:02 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: NoLibZone

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?


17 posted on 04/05/2020 8:12:22 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Ennis85

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?


18 posted on 04/05/2020 8:12:31 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Ennis85

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.


19 posted on 04/05/2020 8:12:39 PM PDT by Aria
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To: Ennis85

He shouldn’t worry as after all is said and done obama will still have a firm hold on that title.


20 posted on 04/05/2020 8:13:00 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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