Why I Don't Admire Trump

Thought of the day... If America wasn't great already, why would there be any illegal immigration? Thank you. I'm here for a long time.

I am frequently asked by well meaning elderly Republicans why I don't like Ex-President Donald Trump. So, here's just a short list. It is not meant to be all inclusive. I am at a loss to think of anything I actually like about the man. I must also say that I don't know the man personally. All of my opinions are based on what I have come across in either newspaper or other media accounts. I do take my news from many sources. In that, I'm similar to most Americans and citizens of the world having to form opinions from second and third party sources.

I am different because I don't take my news solely from Fox News as many Republicans seem to do. So, many of my news sources have different biases than those who seem dedicated to glorifying Trump like Fox or those he has actively championed since he got mad at Fox.

I'd suggest that all Americans who only listen to one news source for their information stop that practice and branch out and seek multiple sources. I do listen to some sources from Fox. But I also listen to CNN, and many newspapers, both foreign and domestic.

Try a search engine news feed. Read the articles that pop up about a subject you're interested in from any source that appears. Browse anonymously and clear your browser cookies or use different browsers just to make fingerprinting more difficult. Browse with TOR or another service. Use Brave as your browser. Those things help to keep the feed from being tailored more to where you go most.

You may not like how some news sources report on your buddy. But it may also broaden your horizon or offer up information that your favorite pro Trump site simply doesn't report because they want to stay in Trump's good graces and it would make him look bad.

1. He has difficulty with speaking the truth. Granted, he's styling himself as a politician - more on that later - and truth is sometimes a difficult concept for a politician to grasp. For details, see Donald Trump's Politifact page and compare with Joe Biden's Politifact page. Both analyze statements each have made and rate them from Truthful to Pant's on Fire lies. Both have some of each and many statements in between. But Trump's pages has many, many more that are weighted on the side of lies (12% roughly were on the true side of half truth and 76% were on the false side of half truth. To be clear, half truth isn't where you want to be either). For Biden, the count is currently 33% and 42% based on the same division although he is earlier in his presidency. Both have some work to do.

   There's even a Wikipedia page about his veracity. On it are links to both Politifact, and also factcheck.org, the Washington Post, and the Toronto Star articles about his inability to tell the truth even when presented with facts that aren't disputed by anyone but him.

   Thomas Jefferson said

   He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

   When a person is noted for lying about anything that will make himself look good or an opponent look bad, how can you trust anything he says? Yet people do. Remember, out of the heart the mouth speaketh. Judge for yourself.

2. He doesn't believe the rules everybody else has to abide by apply to him. Here's a comment on the checks and balances in the U.S. Constitution

   "It’s a very rough system. It’s an archaic system... It’s really a bad thing for the country."

   Here's a quote from 2022.

   "Do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution."

   This was one of his posts on his Truth Social network. He's campaigning for a job that is at its very core meant to defend the Constitution of the United States, yet when he doesn't get the result he wants, he is willing to throw it out. When that didn't get the response he wanted, he tried to backtrack later, but his core belief is that anything that is in his way from getting what he wants should be removed.

   In 2023 he is quoted as saying he'd ignore the 14th Amendment.

   "As part of my plan to secure the border on Day One of my new term in office, I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law, going forward, the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic U.S. citizenship."

   And finally his comments on his first day in office if he wins in commenting on Hannity..

   "We love this guy. He says, ‘You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said: ‘No, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border, and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator."

   This isn't presidential material. I'll talk a bit about the emoluments clause and insurrection later.

3. Trump is abrasive in personality. He calls people names. My kids stopped doing that before they went to school. Out of the heart the mouth speaketh. Judge for yourself.

4. He's been convicted in a civil sexual assault and defamation case and was fined $5 million. When he went on about it, he was sued and fined again to the tune of $83.3 million dollars. It's sure to be appealed but he's still going on about it and may get sued again. With his attitude toward women, going back to the Access Hollywood tape I can't see how any woman would ever vote for him. Some memorable quotes from CBS news. I've omitted the ones talking about particular women but they could be included in the above point about his abrasive personality.

   On his daughter:

   "I don't think Ivanka would do that inside the magazine. Although she does have a very nice figure. I've said that if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I would be dating her."

   On Women in general:

   "Women have one of the great acts of all time. The smart ones act very feminine and needy, but inside they are real killers. The person who came up with the expression 'the weaker sex' was either very naive or had to be kidding. I have seen women manipulate men with just a twitch of their eye -- or perhaps another body part."

   On attractiveness:

   "You know, it doesn't really matter what they write as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass."

   On his charming personality:

   "All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected."

   On his wives:

   "I think the only difference between me and the other candidates is that I'm more honest and my women are more beautiful."

   He's been found guilty in a civil case of fraud. The penalty phase just concluded and the verdict - sure to be appealed - was $355 million dollars and no real estate business dealings in New York for 3 years.

   He's been convicted in his hush money trial in New York.

   He has many other trials in his future and currently has many indictments. All will be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court where he hopes the judges he appointed will smile favorably on him. Too soon to say how any of these will come out in the end. But even thinking of electing a person with this history President of the United States should be a non-starter for everyone.

   He's still trying to delay the rest till after November when he hopes to be in control of the DOJ to be able to stop the trials. The fact that there is even a suggestion that one of the reasons he is running for office is so that he can quash some of the lawsuits filed against him is something that should make him unfit for office.

   The typical retort is they are witch hunts. If they are, Republicans can't say there hasn't been some of that on every side. One of my big frustrations with Congress is that the Republicans protected Trump in his first two impeachments. Republicans should be ashamed of themselves. Now they're trying to impeach Democrats in a tit for tat but so far haven't been able to find any supporting proof. If a party wants to gain my respect, they should be the bigger person and not carry on this way.

   I personally think both impeachments were correct. But the second has nothing you can debate about it. His order to his assembled supporters to "Fight like hell" should have been enough right there. But the Republicans protected their buddy. Republicans, brain washed by Fox News and other sources, seem able to ignore the overwhelming number of cases (over 60) he brought in the 2020 election and the extremely high percentage of those that he lost sometimes without even being able to provide enough evidence to have the case heard, which prove resoundingly Biden was elected and is the rightful president. Yet he called his far right supporters to Washington and told them to "fight like hell".

   Again, shame on the Republican party and Trump. Is it wrong to take your concerns to court if there is legitimate proof something happened? Of course not. But when you've lost your cases, bow out gracefully and accept the outcome. That's what people worthy of the office of President do.

   A recent report I read said that something like $50 million dollars that had been donated to his campaign was used for legal fees. I can't prove the veracity of that either, but it is a huge number if true. I'm glad I don't donate to politicians. He also apparently has a GoFundMe campaign going to try to fund his $355 million dollar penalty. At any rate, if you don't like witch hunts don't practice witchcraft. Many courts are trying to decide if he did. Judge for yourself.

5. Speaking of his losing the election, one of the legal issues that is foremost in my view is that he's apparently on tape trying to get the Georgia Secretary of State to find him specific additional votes in order to declare Georgia won by Trump instead of Biden in the 2020 election. I would think it hard to get out of that error in judgment, but if you ask why I'm against Trump - one of the big reasons is that when he lost - and he did lose - the election in 2020, he refused to admit it or accept it, he tried to sabotage the results in at least one state if the tape is correct, made up or went along with a fake elector scam, and then tried to get Vice President Pence to support his fake electors. Inciting a riot as mentioned above was the final nail in that coffin. But with Trump we should have used screws.

   Trump, himself, calls what they did an insurrection. At Mar-A-Lago he is quoted as saying.

   "They kept saying about what I said right after the insurrection, I think it was an insurrection caused by Nancy Pelosi."

   Calling it what it was and trying to shift blame to someone else is really sad - hugely! The Supreme Court failed in their decision on whether the President is included in the Amendment 14 Section 3 list of people who can't be President if they supported an insurrection against the United States after taking an oath to support the Constitution. It's a gray area, and he got a pass there, but it doesn't pass the smell test either way. Judge for yourself.

6. Trump doesn't support NATO. Over the weekend he was quoted as saying that if a country wasn't paying their full dues - regardless of their ability to pay - then it would be fine if they were attacked and we wouldn't help them.

   He's frustrated that they don't pay enough in defense spending compared to the United States. And yet, they spend much more in dealing with refugees from war zones than we do.

   The NATO issue is just one foreign policy issue. Trump doesn't play well with others unless you're a despot or a dictator. He seems to be friendly with Putin and Kim Jong Un. Judge for yourself.

7. Trump isn't a politician. This is important. It's also important that he's really out there on the things he wants to do.

   Whether anyone likes it or not, the country is split roughly half and half between Democrats and Republicans. In order to get anything done, you need consensus. It is really hard to build a consensus around what either party would call an extreme liberal or extreme conservative position.

   The ultra conservative groups in the Republican party have about killed Congress's marginal effectiveness this term with absolutely stupid moves with respect to the Speaker position, and this week bowing to Trump's desire to kill the Senate Border Security bill so he can use the border issue to keep bashing Biden. But the fact remains that Trump isn't a politician by nature and he just doesn't get the need for compromise.

8. President Biden gets grief about the Afghanistan pullout of U.S. troops. He followed through with what President Trump negotiated. In defense to both, I don't think anyone in government here or in allied countries really thought the government troops would fold to the rebels that quickly.

9. Trump promised to drain the swamp, but his rotating cabinet posts really failed in that regard. A comparison of legal issues with presidential cabinets would be illuminating - or at least it was for me.

   His associates racked up 58 indictments themselves. Reagan's group had 33. Nixon's group had 28. As a comparison, Clinton had 2, and Obama and Carter had none. The book is still out on Biden. A President who is twice impeached and only saved because the Republicans in Congress fear him has made the swamp larger and deeper.

   It has also been reported that anyone who comes to work for him has to sign or at least verbally speak a loyalty oath to him personally. I really don't care how he runs his business empire - as long as it's legal. But in government, I want people who are loyal to the Constitution of the United States (or that and the State Constitution depending on the office). I don't want people loyal to the boss first and the Constitution second. Leaders pushing party loyalists to pass laws that they want passed to give atrocities a legal framework is how we got World War II. Judge for yourself.

10. He seems to be tariff happy. Our own companies and people ended up paying the tariffs, cause that's how it works, and the increased prices really didn't do much to bring back national manufacturing. He wants more of it. It will just add to the bill when you buy stuff - inflation, you know. People say they don't like that, but want a guy who wants more tariffs. Doesn't make sense to me.

    His anti foreigner, pro American image is crafted to make people think he is for them unlike anyone who isn't Trump. He's done a great job of crafting this image. Yet he really didn't do anything for the common man in office. Most Presidents don't. It's not in the job description. All they can do is either sign or veto legislation that Congress passes - see the ability of Congress to function above. But Trump seems to be even more about promoting Trump than the average President. People who help him are championed, until they don't follow along at which point they are the scum of the earth forevermore. Cabinet postings came and went depending on how loyal they were to what Trump wanted. That's dangerous. Judge for yourself.

11. There's this impression that the economy isn't doing well under Biden due to inflation. Well, the money distribution Congress passed under Trump and Biden increased M2 substantially at a time when there wasn't much to buy. I'm not faulting them for that as it probably kept us from sliding into depression. Trump's total bail out was higher than Biden's bail out (added more to the national debt) and was focused more toward companies than individuals. As such, it has had more fraud associated with it that is now coming to light. But the result of a huge spike in M2 (and it was huge) is that inflation will follow and that happened mostly on Biden's watch.

    As M2 dropped, inflation has dropped, but the psychological damage was done. The economy is doing really well. The stock market is hitting new highs. Unemployment has been enviably low for I think 20 months straight. That is similar to the record that Trump inherited before Covid-19 hit.

    But people feel unsafe in their future. The sad fact is that they would have suffered the same inflation and felt the same sense of unease even if Trump had been elected. Anytime a pandemic hits and shuts the country down, it takes years for that sense of impending doom to pass out of the psyche. But on any real yardstick comparison, the country is doing fantastically well.

    Biden can't take credit as the President can't do much to effect the economy. That's on Congress and business as long as the President doesn't start or stop a war or enact a bunch of tariffs. But Biden doesn't get the blame for inflation either. That's on the Congressional decision to send out stimulus checks to companies and then citizens each month. Judge for yourself.

12. People complain about Biden's age and mental acuity. I'm not a doctor, and can't comment on whether there is an issue or not. Neither can the lawyer that made the latest claims that are churning the water about his classified documents issue. But like it or not, Trump is making the same kind of mistakes and would be going into this term as President at a similar age to where Biden was elected. I think he would be about 160 days older or so than Biden was when he started last term. I'm not going to check the 2025 calendar to seen when the swearing in would take place.

    So you can't complain about Biden without also disqualifying Trump. They have the very same age issues. It's a tough and demanding job. Most are elected in their 50's. About an equal number are in either their 40's or 60's. Those elected in 70's and 80's are outliers.

13. Trump doesn't read much of anything, according to reports. Reports say the normal presidential daily brief of 8 to 10 pages had to be shortened to a page with bullet points with a two page maximum as he didn't want to read much. This is a real problem for the office of President.

    He has no interest in getting the facts out of a written briefing or any of the other paperwork that is normal for a President to deal with. He wants a high level summary, and is perfectly happy to take his view of what's going on in the world from the television news. We should expect better from our President.

14. One estimate puts his speaking level at that of an 8 year old. While that may make him easy to understand, it's a problem. Some put his speaking at just under the 6th grade level. Estimates are that you have to go back to 1929 to find an equivalent (sorry Herbert Hoover). To be clear, most speeches attempt to stay in the 6th to 8th grade level for politicians so it isn't a big miss. But if his normal speaking level is that bad compared to political speeches, it isn't good.

    If he could manage to not post on social media, it wouldn't seem so bad. Still, to be clear, this is an actual quote from one of his speeches. Even if you've read it before, read it again.

    "Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."

    And speaking of his opinion of himself from the above mentioned CBS article:

    "Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest -and you all know it! Please don't feel so stupid or insecure, it's not your fault."

    And of his attitude toward others who aren't as gifted as he thinks he is:

    "I love the poorly educated."

    If you read that and have any complaints about a four year older Biden's occasional lapses of memory or mistakes in sentence structure, you're seriously deluding yourself. Judge for yourself.

15. Speaking of tweets, the New York Times put together an exhaustive list of his tweets before he was banned.

    If enough time has elapsed that you have forgotten just how bad it was, go back and read the list. Judge for yourself.

16. Since nuclear power was mentioned, it should also be noted that he wasn't great at dealing with science. Just inject a harmful chemical - that'll take care of the Covid in you. Of course it'll make you really sick or kill you too, but hey, I've provided a helpful solution. Look at me. Who knows when the next pandemic will hit, but I hope it doesn't happen on Trump's watch.

    We need someone who can understand science, virology, and - hey - just believing the weather forecast would be nice. Any President who draws his own lines on a map for where a hurricane Dorian is likely to hit really shouldn't be in office. Here's his quote about it.

    "In addition to Florida – South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated."

    In fact, Alabama was never in danger from this particular hurricane and was even sending its own National Guard to help in Florida.

    Yes, #SharpieGate got blown way out of proportion, but when someone can't admit they are wrong or worse, just believes they are always right - particularly a President - and it gets to the point that they are trying to get other branches to falsely support them, especially in a matter of science, it is a real problem.

    From the CBS article above, here's his opinion on apologizing if wrong:

    "I think apologizing's a great thing, but you have to be wrong. I will absolutely apologize, sometime in the hopefully distant future, if I'm ever wrong."

    He's also on record against steam catapults on aircraft carriers and wanting to reject magnetic elevator systems because... wait for it...

    “All I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets.”

    Um, no. Just no. Water is not an issue for magnets.

    Everyone is wrong sometimes. I'm sure the pro Trump camp if reading this feels I'm wrong just about everywhere. But Presidents can be wrong too and when they are it matters. They have to be able to say I made a mistake and go on about fixing any mess they made and continuing governing. Trump never seems to be able to admit he is wrong. See the factcheck.org site or others for proof. Judge for yourself.

17. Trump tries to make out to be a friend of evangelicals, but he isn't known to attend church unless it's a campaign stop or a state funeral, or wedding. He's far more likely to be found on a golf course. It is reported President Biden has attended more church services than any other recent President. One count I saw put it at over 100 services partially through his first term of office. Trump had 11 visits in office. Obama had 9. And GW Bush had 35 according to a twitter post.

    Just attending church doesn't save you. Both men have flaws, just like I and everyone else does both in their past and present. But taking the time to attend church is a rarity for our population today and is especially rare in Presidents. I happen to like it that Biden attends whenever he can, and not just on the campaign trail where it presents a good religious image. Although Catholic, he's been known to attend services in other Christian denominations on the road.

    In Supreme Court Chief Justice John Jay's letter to Dr. Morse he wrote:

    Whether our religion permits Christians to vote for infidel rulers is a question which merits more consideration than it seems yet to have generally received, either from clergy or the laity. It appears to me that what the prophet said to Jehoshaphat about his attachment to Ahab affords a salutary lesson on another interesting topic. 2 Chronicles 19:2. Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.

    Biden's religion isn't something he uses to try to get votes. He also has paid a price for not condemning abortion because he puts the country first over his private beliefs. Pay attention to what presidents do and not what they say. Forsake not the assembling of yourselves together as you see the day approaching. Judge for yourself.

18. He elected to not put his business interests in a blind trust or divest of them. Foreign leaders stayed at his properties. Congressmen stayed at his properties. The Secret Service and Trump, of course, stayed at his properties when traveling abroad or playing golf.

    He claims that in those cases all profit was turned over, but the Republicans in Congress put a stop to the investigation so we'll never really know. By the time it was stopped, however, they'd uncovered millions of dollars in income from sources that had a conflict of interest because they would be hoping for favor from the President. Court cases were attempted to uncover the problems, but the general rebuttal seemed to be that those who brought the cases didn't suffer direct competition, so they couldn't file. I'm pretty sure that with Covid-19, just the income even without profit did a lot to help save some of his properties. Judge for yourself.

19. Speaking of his business interests and golf, Trump complained about Obama's golfing, but it is estimated that he was golfing once every 4.92 days where Obama's golfing worked out to once every 8.77 days according to google. That's a huge cost to the taxpayer, and much of it was on his properties which weren't really local, entailing air costs in addition to the normal Secret Service costs.

    But pleasure isn't the only issue. The quantity of protected trips he and his family members took was huge compared to his predecessors. It's an order of magnitude higher. He, and his family, do need protection. But if it isn't for the country, it should be reimbursed. See The CREW site for more information. You can poke around there for more about the emolument issues as well. Judge for yourself.

20. We hear lots of blather about President Biden's son and favorable deals he may have been able to obtain due to his father's job. Some of President Trump's relation worked directly for him in the White House. One led diplomatic missions. You can't complain about one son's actions without acknowledgment of the improper influence of the other.

    Complaining about Biden's supposed business dealings with his son pale in comparison to the Trump family businesses. If you're mad at Biden, be equally disgusted with Trump. Judge for yourself.

21. Additional comments post first presidential debate for 2024: About the problems black people are having today:

    "He caused inflation. As sure as you’re sitting there, the fact is that his big kill on the black people is the millions of people that he’s allowed to come in through the border. They’re taking black jobs now and it could be 18. It could be 19 and even 20 million people. They’re taking black jobs and they’re taking Hispanic jobs and you haven’t seen it yet, but you’re going to see something that’s going to be the worst in our history."

    Are there jobs that have a higher percentage of black and Hispanic workers? Of course. But there are no black jobs or Hispanic jobs. Trump can say he isn't racist, but his own words paint that comment as just another lie. President Obama pretty much smashed the proverbial glass ceiling on who could do what job in the world today. In their ranking of presidents, polls put President Obama at 15th place which is really good compared to President Trump.

    Black and Hispanic individuals, whether men or women, are just a capable of succeeding in any job they set their sights on if they are given an equal playing field from birth to the time to search for a job and during their career. Sadly, disparities in educational opportunities, sometimes a lack of family role models which can happen anywhere (but due to the judicial system we live under affects minorities to a disproportionate amount), finances for extended education, and flat out prejudice and racism, put big bumps in the playing field. For some, they're better described as mountains.

    His numbers of immigrants is also high by an order of 2 or 3 times than reality. Many who make the attempt are deported. The net numbers are lower.

22. Also in the debate, he threw out a big lie about late term abortions. They are exceedingly rare, and infanticide is a crime in the entire United States. I'm not a fan of his selections to the Supreme Court, and I'd vote for someone other than Trump on that issue alone. The court can't be allowed to swing any more to the right. Just in the last week, his stacked court has gutted the ability for federal agencies to enforce regulations by killing the Chevron decision, they've said January 6th wasn't really an insurrection according to the law the charges were based on, and of course in the past, they invalidated Roe vs. Wade. I'm not a fan of abortion, but I also realize that it has a place in our world (see Abortion and Christianity for additional comments). And I join many in the rest of the country in questioning whether the esteemed Supreme Court would fail to prosecute any group of individuals who broke into their building and caused a similar disruption to their work whether they were in court or just working quietly in their chambers.
23. To add to his 6 to 1 or so ratio of lies versus Biden at the debate, Trump also said Biden was out to destroy Social Security due to immigration. Even if they qualified for aid programs before becoming legal, which is only true in a few states for Medicaid for emergencies, their benefits would still be limited based on what they had paid into the system. We actually need to increase the number of babies we're having as citizens or increase the number of immigrants to keep the benefits of Social Security and the like running for the existing people who have paid in all their lives. It's a great big Ponzi scheme that has been running for generations.

I'm sure I'll think of more. There is a summary list on CNN that covers some of the points I've raised and also gives links to more backup references than I've given.

I know that this has covered a lot of ground, and is a long read. You should be aware that my opinions are shared by many beyond just the Democratic party members. For Trump to win, he needs the independent vote. That is an iffy proposition.

The 2024 Presidential Rankings came out this week generated from polls of some of the people who influence history books - not your average Joe on the street. Lincoln was at the top of the list, followed by Franklin Roosevelt, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Thomas Jefferson. Who is on top varies a bit from time to time, but is almost always among these great leaders.

Ex President Trump wasn't at the bottom of the list in previous iterations of the survey. There were a couple below him in one survey and three below him in another. But in this latest survey, he's all the way at the bottom at position 45. Even when broken out by political bias, the Republicans who took part in the ranking only put him at 41. That's saying something and that's how history currently judges him - as the worst President the country has ever had. President Biden isn't at the top of the list, but he just squeaked in at 14th - in the top third. Although this latest survey isn't included yet, you can see some of the previous surveys on Wikipedia. There's a lot of topics that all Presidents are judged on in order to generate the overall rankings.

As a Republican, it saddens me that so many are selecting Trump in the primaries. There are things that I'm not a fan of Nikki Haley for, but I'd rather have her than either Biden or Trump. Sadly, my state probably won't have any input as the decision will already be made before we even get to put our opinion in.

Hopefully, both Biden and Trump will decide or be forced to step down at the conventions and we can have better candidates from both parties to choose from. I'm not against Biden like I am Trump. But I know that whatever problems he is having now will be worse after four more years. It's a tough job for a young man, and he isn't young. As I said before, Trump isn't young either.