President Donald Trump posted a ranking of what he apparently believes are the greatest US presidents, and it’s no surprise where he ended up on the list.
The post, featuring portraits of 34 of the 45 individuals who have held the office, ranks them as “the greatest, great, near great, average, below average and failures.”
Trump, naturally, ranks himself as “the greatest” above such famed presidents as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson, all of whom were listed in the “great” category.’
Other presidents in that category included Woodrow Wilson and Andrew Jackson.
The “near great” category included Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, John Adams and James K. Polk.
The “average” category surprisingly included Bill Clinton, whom Trump has made a point of attacking over the years.
That category also included John Quincy Adams, James Monroe, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Madison, Martin Van Buren, William Howard Taft, Chester A. Arthur, William McKinley, Andrew Johnson, Herbert Hoover, and Benjamin Harrison.
The “below average” category included John Tyler, Calvin Coolidge, Millard Fillmore, Zachary Taylor, James Buchanan and Franklin Pierce.
To absolutely nobody’s surprise, Trump’s list dubbed Barack Obama and Joe Biden as “failures” along with Jimmy Carter, Ulysses S. Grant and Warren G. Harding.
The list excluded William Henry Harrison, James A. Garfield (both of whom died shortly after taking office), Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.
Trump had posted the list along with a video from CNN’s Harry Enten, highlighting a poll showing Trump is more admired by Republicans than Lincoln and Reagan.
