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Who is the most criticised president in the US history?

Asked by imrainmaker (8380points) April 22nd, 2017

Will it be Donald Trump or someone else?

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Rarebear's avatar

Woodrow Wilson

Lightlyseared's avatar

It would depend how you calculated it. I would have gone with James Buchanan given that his presidency ended in a civil war.

janbb's avatar

I think it will end up being Trump although Obama was certainly hated by many. As were Nixon and Lincoln. It’s really a question that it would be hard to prove an answer for as there will be little hard historical data.

Pachy's avatar

I’ve been alive through 14 presidents—arguably some great and some not so much. But for me, the current one, the 15th, is and will go down in history as the most deservedly criticized and worst one ever.

I just pray that our country survives to Number 16, which will NOT be Trump.

Yellowdog's avatar

Donald Trump.

He was a joke right up to election week, and people were talking of impeachment even the day after he was elected.

When he suggested that the elections were rigged, Obama told him to “Stop whining” and Biden told him to “Grow up” and Clinton’s closing remarks were a very defiant “How DARE he criticize the integrity of the [U.S. Election process].

Of course, when he won the electoral college vote all of the sudden it was collusion with the Russians that got him elected (but wait… if Hillary won the POPULAR vote then how were there hacks???)

Many younger people who have not lived through history believe Donald Trump is a dictator along the lines of Hitler. They REALLY believe this. When you mention the Holocaust and Germany’s “Final Solution” these young people under age 25 claim he is inticing riots and is doing the same thing to “immigrants”

When you look at respectable news magazines—they are more concerned that Trump referred to someone as “That Gentleman” rather than say his name (Kim Jong Un) and there is virtually no comment about the content or outcome of the meeting to which the name was mentioned.

Yet already, before the first hundred days, terrorist holds have been wiped out, our allies respect us again, neutral nations respect us. Jobs are created in the Coal and Steel industry, and the stock market is way up.

To be fair, however, it is hard to defend Trump when he speaks his mind without restraint or decorum. Anyone can find a true and actual quote to support their anti-Trump position.

Even two days after Trump had allowed the military to wipe out an ISIS stronghold, and made good diplomatic relations with the Chinese president, many in the U,S, were not even aware of this and were still believing in Trump’s coziness with Putin (even when Putin was making threats) and—instead of protesting Trump’s use of a bomb or the horrors of the threat of nuclear war, they were protesting and firebombing en masse that Trump needed to show his tax returns. (what little of this information that had been leaked showed that he paid a higher percentage than Obama and a higher dollar amount than entire media networks)

I do not think the anti-Trump hysteria with people comparing him to Hitler (and really believing this), threatening to commit suicide, offensively showing their body parts, and ceaseless accusations about collusion with the Russians (even when Trump and Putin are not on good terms and have no previous association)—and conspiracy theories about power outages in New York and San Francisco—will ever end—as long as Trump is in office, no matter how well off the States are at the end of the term.

Zaku's avatar

@Yellowdog What universe do you come from?

“terrorist holds have been wiped out”
LOL

“our allies respect us again, neutral nations respect us”
Allies and neutrals?
“Most newspapers across Europe predict that Donald Trump will be a reckless world leader, viewing him as a buffoon and fearing that he will undermine transatlantic relations and weaken the European Union.”
(from How Donald Trump is viewed by Europe’s newspapers )
“the voices of support are drowned out by almost universal condemnation. When it comes to Trump, Europe is apoplectic . Fascinated, but appalled.”
(from Europe hates Trump. Does it matter? )
“The flare-up — and conflicting characterizations of the call from Mr. Trump and Mr. Turnbull — threatened to do lasting damage to relations between the two countries and could drive Canberra closer to China, which has a robust trading relationship with Australia and is competing with Washington to become the dominant force in the Asia-Pacific region.”
(from U.S.-Australia Rift Is Possible After Trump Ends Call With Prime Minister )

ETC ETC ETC etc etc etc etc etc etc

flutherother's avatar

Trump is in a class of his own. He hasn’t become president so much as used the position to bolster his own ego. He is almost beneath criticism but criticise him we must before he turns the United States of America into a banana republic.

Yellowdog's avatar

Thus yaw’ll make my point that Trump is the most criticized president in U.S. History.

In Europe and Australia it is still cool to bash American conservatism. In America, even conservatives bash and criticize trump. But you have to realize that soon, Europe as you know it will be no more. Its already a hate crime to define the Dutch as the boy with wooden shoes and the finger in the dyke because Dutch can be from Samolia. Tourists will be afraid to come to the daily-firebombed Paris and the bombed out- and mangled English double-Decker buses, and the Sharia flag will fly over Windsor palace.

Europe has already about eleven to fifteen percent down the slippery slope, and will continue to bash Trump as Europe falls into slaughter, terror and seventh-century barbarism,

Trump is not your enemy. Look around you. Even so, he is and will remain the most criticized president in U.S. history. Islamic terror, vladmir putin and kim Jong Un are not Trump’s Trump’s worst enemy—you are. And I’m sure you’re all the more glad for it.

flutherother's avatar

I can just picture Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in a burka.

Yellowdog's avatar

British Royalty will be regarded as irrelevant. Islam seeks total dominion. Her Majesty will probably always be allowed to worship in the Anglican tradition but all will acquiesce to Islam and recognize Sharia law when Europe falls.

If you want to know how indigenous Christians fare in a culture dominated by Islam, look at what’s currently happening in the middle east. Some of the biggest explosions / mushroom clouds I’ve ever seen on the news are happening in Egypt right now. The ancient Coptic Christians have been there for almost 2,000 years but are shot as they flee to the hills. Your ancient churches and cathedrals will see a similar fate. I’ve even seen them brag about it on the news—and yet the literate intellectual voices of even the traditionalists in England say things like “we survived the Blitz we will survive this… ”

I respect you Brits and certainly your Queen Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II but Islam doesn’t recognize a female ruler, your religion or lack thereof, nor your laws. They do NOT want to coexist with you.

Zaku's avatar

@Yellowdog So are you trolling or do you actually believe any of that?

flutherother's avatar

@Yellowdog Muslims, Christians and Jews have lived together in the Middle East comparatively peacefully for centuries. What we see happening today is a tragedy, lets not try to make it any worse.

Yellowdog's avatar

I certainly agree there—that Muslims and Jews have especially gotten along even far better than the Christians have with either. There is plenty of classical Islamic art and architecture to attest to this—as entire cities. But this is not what we are seeing today. The barbarism today exceeds anything in history. Entire neighborhoods and districts in European cities are “no go zones” among police.

It only takes one bomb to decimate Tower Bridge or Westminster Abby—the terrorists do not value the art, architecture, history, or culture that many of us identify with—we have to determine whether London, Amsterdam, Paris, Milan, Bergen, etc etc are worth preserving as ur world heritage or if we should just let violent and warring factions from the middle east and parts of Africa have it all,, Ten years ago I’d’ve said Paris or Stockholm or London was safer than Jerusalem but I no longer hold that view. In Jerusalem, they know who might bomb their shopping malls and nightclubs. Europe has learned too late.

But back to the original question—I look though once-legitimate news sources trying to find the “other side” to an issue involving Trump y’know something not from Fox News—and often times they are rife with criticizing the types of people who voted for Trump, or the fact that Trump referred so someone as “this gentleman” or compare Obama with Abe Lincoln or Teddy Roosevelt—rather than give news or information. One poll said that 93% of the news about Trump is negative.

Odder still— someone in Trumps cabinet or campaign spoke with someone in Russia after the election and there will be eighteen sentences purporting criminal investigation about collusion with the Russians and somewhere near the end a blurb that no collusion or evidence has yet been found. Has any political figure ever been dealt with this way?

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