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CMV: Donald Trump wasn’t the worst president in American history by a long shot

It has become fashionable in both popular discourse and mainstream media to refer to Donald Trump as “the worst American president in history”. For the life of me, I cannot comprehend that view.

Sure, Trump is a criminal, a racist, an idiot, and a narcissistic sociopath who would happily kill to get his way – *but look at his predecessors!*

FDR operated concentration camps.

Truman nuked 200,000 civilians.

Johnson sent mentally retarded teenagers to die in Vietnam.

Reagan’s War on Drugs (happily continued by his successors from both parties) incarcerated millions of people and devastated Latin America.

Bush Jr. legalized torture and started a war that killed at least half a million people.

Compared to those mind-boggling feats of evil, Trump’s “accomplishments” just seem… *meh.* The most infamous event of his presidency, the storming of the Capitol, was a one-day affair that led to a grand total of five casualties. It was a terrible crime with major political implications, and Trump is 100% responsible for it. But it pales in comparison to the Vietnam War, which killed 60,000 Americans and traumatized an entire generation (not to mention its effects in Vietnam itself).

Much has been said about Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and the WHO. It’s flabbergasting to see people’s sudden outrage at this, considering that “fuck everyone else” has been the main theme of US foreign policy *basically since forever.* The US passed a law permitting themselves to invade the Hague. The US is the *only(!)* UN member that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The US hasn’t even paid their full dues to the UN in a long time. Trump’s middle finger to the world was business as usual for America.

Trump is a clown who became president almost by accident. His ramblings on social media gave the impression that a complete idiot was in charge. He is evil and if you picked a dozen people at random, he would almost certainly be the worst among them.

But American presidents are not random people. They are power-obsessed individuals who have committed some of the most horrible crimes in history, including mass murder. *As a US president,* Trump was utterly mediocre. At least he didn’t start another war, which in my eyes already puts him above several post-WWII presidents. Obama was better, but Obama was clearly an above-average president. Trump was below average, but calling him the worst of all time when even recent history includes war criminals like Bush reeks of media sensationalism, and is frankly insulting to the hundreds of millions of people around the world whose entire existence has been haunted by what some of Trump’s predecessors have done. *Change my view!*
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The difference between Trump and the other “bad presidents” you mentioned is that those presidents had major achievements that offset the negative aspects of their presidency.

FDR guided us out of the Great Depression and through WWII. Truman ended WWII. Through nukes, yes, but that was arguably better than the alternative (a land war in Japan). Truman also guided America into post war prosperity and kept Western Europe from falling to communism. Johnson was instrumental in passing Medicare and some of the most important civil rights legislation in American history. Reagan led us out of stagflation and played a role in the end of the Cold War. 

Trump has no similar achievements. His best accomplishments are relatively minor Israeli peace treaties (which this week has shown did not bring much peace to the region) and a very unpopular tax bill. He also failed to handle the only major crisis of his presidency (COVID).

So his only legacy is his corruption. There’s nothing else there. That’s why trump is so bad.

(Although I’d agree W Bush gives trump a run for his money for worst president).