# Who Was the Worst President? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 3, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-president/591242 "2011-08-03T00:00:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-president/591242/181 "2022-10-22T17:49:12Z")
Just as a side remark, the UK has also been updating the “Worst Since Chamberlain” title every couple of years since this thread started. Now imagine the series Cameron → May → Boris → Truss plotted into Trump → X → Y → Z and be very afraid 😧 Z may well be Greene… ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2022, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-president/591242/182 "2022-10-22T17:54:51Z")
Polk also failed to make good on his pledge of “54’40” or fight,” leading the way to a nation that stands as a quiet, polite, reproach ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2022, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-president/591242/183 "2022-10-22T18:04:04Z")
As there is now a clear answer to the thread title, this thread update is more than fitting. Pick your Trump debacle. I’ll go with how he has convinced the gullible that our very electoral system is suspect and shouldn’t be trusted. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-president/591242/184 "2022-10-22T19:56:16Z")
Yeah, we can close this now. It’s settled. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-president/591242/185 "2022-10-24T00:49:29Z")
I was incredulous reading the first answers until I saw it was 11 years old. Amazing what a difference a few years make. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-president/591242/186 "2022-10-24T02:33:36Z")
You know… What happens if someone like DeathSantis or Abbott or MTG get to be president? And completely and irrevocably destroy democracy? Will they become the worse president evah or will trump still hold the title for making it possible? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-president/591242/187 "2022-10-24T02:35:11Z")
Someone will resurrect this thread and we’ll find out for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-president/591242/188 "2022-10-24T04:19:37Z")
I never imagined anyone would beat Nixon. Trump finally did it. If I want to want scare myself by thinking of scarier people than Trump, I’ll go read Stephen King. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2022, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-president/591242/189 "2022-11-02T04:56:37Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Yeah, we can close this now. It’s settled. I hope so but I doubt it. I don’t feel the Republicans have hit bottom yet. We’ll probably see a President who is as immoral as Trump but not as incompetent. An American Putin. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-president/591242/190 "2022-11-09T01:14:16Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > MTG get to be president And this horrifying possibility will give me nightmares for the foreseeable future. 🫣😱 🫢 ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-president/591242/191 "2022-11-10T22:52:50Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > MTG get to be presiden We’ll just destroy her with Jewish space lasers. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-president/591242/192 "2022-11-12T05:39:40Z")
Or send the gazpacho after her. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-president/591242/193 "2022-11-12T21:52:58Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > MTG get to be president? You need to wash your mouth out with soap man! That’s gonna’ give me nightmares, ice down my back. Jeeze I’m old I can’t take that kind of trauma! 😱 See, I answered that twice. I can’t take the thought. Ooops … 😊 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-president/591242.md?page=9)