It’s official: Donald Trump is not going down in history as America’s best president – or the worst. According to the latest available poll of presidential historians, there are two presidents who have underperformed during their tenure in the White House.
Who are they? And where would other recent presidents, such as George W. Bush and Barack Obama, be on such a list? Here are the results of an extensive survey of historians, political scientists and presidential scholars administered by the Siena College Research Institute. Since 1982, the SCRI Survey of U.S. Presidents has been conducted during the second year of a new president’s first term, ranking presidents into 20 different categories, ranging from integrity to the ability to compromise.
Biographical information for each president WhiteHouse.gov and the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.