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Who's the worst president the US has ever had? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by zyratoxx@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Depending on how the next four years go I'm on the fence between Bush Jr. and Trump but I'd like to hear from you

Edit:

Top 10 suggestions so far (unordered):

Andrew Jackson
Andrew Johnson
George W. Bush Jr
Ronald Reagan
Richard Nixon
James K. Polk
Woodrow Wilson
James Buchanan
Franklin Pierce
Donald J. Trump

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[–] Balefirex@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You have grossly misread the intent of that comment, chief. She's saying that putting Trump in top 5 worst (atm) downplays America's historical atrocities such as invading Vietnam, killing 20% of the population of North Korea, Iraq war, Afghanistan war, etc

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz -3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Sorry, I wasn't looking at it in terms of just the senseless loss of lives, but also how much damage was being done at home. Yeah there's a lot of hard lines there to cross but Trump has made a policy of tearing the nation apart instead of trying to bring people together, and that weighs a lot to me.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If it's about domestic damage, then every president who owned slaves or supported segregation still beats him.

E: Also every president who was involved in the genocide of the indigenous peoples of America to an extent more than Trump (IE he probably ties Biden and Obama on this).

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

Imagine it being a bad thing to tear apart an evil empire

[–] sammer510@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

Even by that metric he isn't the worst.

[–] Balefirex@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

critical support to Trump collapsing the genocidal American empire

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

WTF, I love Trump now.