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

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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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[+] TheDrink@hexbear.net 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

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[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

For that matter so were the conditions that lead to the escalation of the war in Ukraine.

Complete mind palace nonsense. We literally impeached him for threatening to not send weapons there for the civil war that ended up exploding into the full scale invasion.

Not that he had good reasons to do a good thing, but your recollection of history is completely fucking inverted

but beyond that I’m not sure there are a lot of crimes in the history of America’s presidency.

okay maybe I'm expecting too much from you

...you know we genocided an entire continent of people, right? And continue to?

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

For that matter so were the conditions that lead to the escalation of the war in Ukraine.

That's Obama. Sure Trump continued but it's mostly on Obama for pushing the neonazi monstrosity to power and Biden for constant escalations to proxy world war and possibly to real world war soon.