Quote:It's sort of a power ranking for Presidents...


 

1. Abraham Lincoln
   
   
2. George Washington
   
   
3. Thomas Jefferson
   
   
4. Franklin D Roosevelt
   
   
5. Theodore Roosevelt
   
   
6. Dwight D Eisenhower
   
   
7. Ronald Reagan
   
   
8. James Madison
   
   
9. Donald Trump*
   
   
10. Lyndon B. Johnson
    
    
11. John F. Kennedy
    
    
12. Andrew Jackson
    
    
13. Harry S Truman
    
    
14. John Adams
    
    
15. William McKinley
    
    
16. James K Polk
    
    
17. James Monroe
    
    
18. George H.W. Bush
    
    
19. Woodrow Wilson
    
    
20. William Howard Taft
    
    
21. Calvin Coolidge
    
    
22. Grover Cleveland
    
    
23. John Quincy Adams
    
    
24. Rutherford B. Hayes
    
    
25. Bill Clinton
    
    
26. Gerald Ford
    
    
27. Barack Obama
    
    
28. Chester A. Arthur
    
    
29. Ulysses S. Grant
    
    
30. Benjamin Harrison
    
    
31. Herbert Hoover
    
    
32. George W Bush
    
    
33. Richard Nixon
    
    
34. Zachary Taylor
    
    
35. Jimmy Carter
    
    
36. Martin Van Buren
    
    
37. John Tyler
    
    
38. Millard Fillmore
    
    
39. William Henry Harrison
    
    
40. James A. Garfield
    
    
41. Warren G. Harding
    
    
42. Andrew  Johnson
    
    
43. Franklin Pierce
    
    
44. James Buchanon
    
    

*assume Trump follows through on promises

 

At first glance, I would have Jackson rated much lower, and Truman higher.  Kennedy is ranked too high also.  

 

Ranking recent presidents is tough, I think it takes quite a while before all the partisanship can dissipate and they can be viewed objectively.   

 

In the case of Trump, I would rank him at the bottom if he follows through on his promises. 

 

It's hard to rank Washington below anyone, because he basically invented the Presidency.   I'm pretty partial to Washington, because when you add in the Revolutionary war and the Presidency, I think he's the greatest person to ever live in the Western Hemisphere. 

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