Fox News reported on some new presidential rankings, which purportedly show Barack Obama as the #6 president in U.S. history and Donald Trump dead last, and MAGA was not happy.

Fox News on Sunday posted an article about the new rankings by the Presidential Greatness Project, which Fox describes as “a group of self-styled experts.” It states that Abraham “Lincoln topped the list of presidents in the 2024 Presidential Greatness Project expert survey for the third time, following his top spot in the rankings in the 2015 and 2018 versions of the survey.”

“Rounding out the top five in the rankings were Franklin Delano Roosevelt at number two, George Washington at three, Theodore Roosevelt at four, and Thomas Jefferson at five,” according to the report. “Trump was ranked in last place in the survey, being ranked worse than James Buchanan at 44, Andrew Johnson at 43, Franklin Pierce at 42, and William Henry Harrison at 41.”

The report states that Obama and Joe Biden “ranked an average of 6th and 13th, respectively, among Democrat respondents, and 15th and 30th by Republicans.”

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    6 months ago

    Yeah, no on this sorry this article is bullshit… Trump is a bad guy and was a bad president but Andrew Jackson ordered the Trail of Tears and forced over a hundred thousand people to walk into desert concentration camps.

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      6 months ago

      forced over a hundred thousand people to walk

      I’m told that a hundred thousand people is [checks notes] less than hundreds of thousands. It’s a shock to me too, but the math does check out.

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        6 months ago

        Not suer what you point is, at the time this was literally all of them. The trail of tears totally erased many cultures to where they never recovered and was a total and complete genocide.

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            6 months ago

            COVID-19 nowhere comes close to the level of atrocity of the Indian Removal act and the US south and its policies under Jackson. The trail of tears genocide was just one event from the Indian Removal act that he passed where hundreds of cultures were erased from all time, where hundreds thousands died and were gunned down by the US army. Before he was president he personally murdered people he believed less than human, by a person who was trying to build a slave owning white supremacist feudalism.

            This makes you a worse person than someone who mishandled a pandemic that was mishandled worldwide.