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Nearly 200 of America’s top political scientists have votedย Donald Trumpย the worst president in US history.
According to the 2018 Presidents & Executive Politics Presidential Greatness Survey, Mr Trump ranks even lower than disgraced Presidentย Richard Nixonย โ even among conservatives.ย Abraham Lincoln, unsurprisingly, takes the top prize.ย Mrย Nixonย sits at 33.
The study, conducted every four years, surveys social science researchers from the American Political Science Associationโs section on presidents and executive politics. It asks the experts to rank each presidentโs greatness on a scale of 0 to 100, with 100 being great, 50 being average, and 0 being a total failure.
Mr Trumpย averaged a score of 12.34, bumpingย James Buchananย โ the president who saw the US descend into the Civil War โ out of the bottom spot. The result comes just months afterย Trumpย finished his first year in office as the most unpopular president in modern history.
Mr Trumpโs predecessor,ย Barack Obama, jumped 10 places since the survey was last conducted in 2014, to spot number eight.ย George W Bushย also climbs in the rankings, making it five places up to number 30.
Bill Clintonย did not fair was well as the other living presidents, dropping five places down to 14th. Only Andrew Jackson dropped more โ down six places โ possibly owing to increased attention on how he treated Native Americans.
The top seven presidents remained the exact same, withย Abraham Lincolnย on top, followed byย George Washington, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Harry Trumanย andย Dwight Eisenhower.
Mrย Trumpย was accompanied in the bottom five byย Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, William Harrison,ย andย Mr Buchanan.
Researchersย Brandon Rottinghaus, of theย University of Houston, andย Justin Vaughn, ofย Boise State University, said they surveyed 170 political science experts for the study. Of those experts, 57.2 per cent identified as Democrats, 12.7 per cent as Republicans, and 27.1 per cent as independents.
While Republicans and Democrats differed on how they viewed figures like Mrย Obamaย and Mrย Bush, they were in fairly close agreement on My Trump: Conservatives voted him 40th out of 45.
The one area where Mrย Trumpย did come out on top was in the โmost polarisingโ section, in which the researchers asked the scientists to list the five presidents they found most divisive. Mr Trump was ranked most polarising by 90 of the 170 respondents, and second-most polarising by another 20.
Courtesy of “The Independent”
