𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕡: 𝔸𝕞𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕔𝕒'𝕤 𝕎𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝔹𝕒𝕝𝕝-𝕚𝕟-ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕖𝕗

𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕡’𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕤𝕥: 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕠𝕥𝕚𝕔 𝕘𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕟𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖, 𝕕𝕖𝕖𝕡𝕖𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕕𝕚𝕧𝕚𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟, 𝕝𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕕𝕒𝕞𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕧𝕚𝕒 𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕥𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕔𝕝𝕚𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕖, 𝕡𝕝𝕦𝕤 𝕦𝕟𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕖𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕤𝕔𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕝𝕤—𝕠𝕦𝕥𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕚𝕡𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕟 𝔹𝕦𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕟 𝕠𝕣 ℕ𝕚𝕩𝕠𝕟 𝕚𝕟 𝕨𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕟𝕠𝕣𝕞𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕡𝕖𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖.

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ets cut to the bone doubling down on why Trump could claim the "worst president" title with more meat on each point—governance, division, and long-term damage—plus a bonus round on personal conduct, which seals the deal for some. 

Start with governance, where Trump’s record is a dumpster fire with extra kindling. 

Beyond the staff churn (63% turnover in his first two years, per Politico—Carter’s was 43%), his administration was a policy black hole. 

Take the 2017 tax cuts: sold as a middle-class boon, they ballooned the deficit by $1.9 trillion (CBO numbers) while 83% of the gains went to the top 1% by 2025, per Tax Policy Center. 

Then there’s the infrastructure “week” that lasted four years with no bill. 

COVID’s the kicker—400,000 deaths by his exit (Lancet’s estimate ties 40% to mismanagement), dwarfing Bush’s Katrina flub (1,800 dead). 

Now, 2025’s tariff tantrum: targeting Canada, Mexico, even Antarctica’s penguins, he’s crashed trade talks and sparked retaliatory levies. 

Goldman Sachs predicts a 2% GDP hit by 2026. 

Compare that to Andrew Johnson, who bumbled Reconstruction but didn’t torch the economy single-handedly.  

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Additional Reading:

𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕤 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕨𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕨𝕖 𝕧𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕗𝕠𝕣. 𝔹𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕖𝕝𝕝 𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕡

𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕚-𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕡 𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕤 𝕚𝕟 𝕔𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕖𝕤 𝕒𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕤𝕤 𝕌𝕊 𝕕𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕣𝕖 '𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕤 𝕠𝕗𝕗'

𝔸𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕪𝕤𝕚𝕤: 𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕡’𝕤 𝕋𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕗𝕗 𝔾𝕒𝕞𝕓𝕚𝕥: 𝔸 ℝ𝕖𝕔𝕚𝕡𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝔼𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕠𝕞𝕚𝕔 ℝ𝕦𝕚𝕟

𝔼𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕪𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕚𝕤 𝕓𝕝𝕠𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕦𝕡 𝕚𝕟 𝔼𝕝𝕠𝕟 𝕄𝕦𝕤𝕜’𝕤 𝕗𝕒𝕔𝕖

𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕡 𝕊𝕝𝕒𝕡𝕤 𝟙𝟘% 𝕋𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕗𝕗 𝕠𝕟 ℕ𝕖𝕨 ℤ𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕕, 𝕊𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕜𝕤 𝕋𝕣𝕒𝕕𝕖 𝔻𝕚𝕤𝕡𝕦𝕥𝕖 𝕆𝕧𝕖𝕣 ℝ𝕖𝕔𝕚𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕚𝕥𝕪 ℂ𝕝𝕒𝕚𝕞𝕤

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Division’s next, and Trump’s the maestro of national fracture. His rhetoric—“shithole countries,” “stand back and stand by”—didn’t just polarize; it weaponitized. 

Pew data shows partisan gaps doubling from 15 points in 2016 to 33 by 2021. 

January 6th wasn’t spontaneous; it was his “fight like hell” rally cry, backed by 74 million votes he convinced the election was stolen from—no evidence, just vibes. 

Fast-forward to 2025: his Truth Social rants (“Dems are Satan’s spawn”) keep the MAGA base simmering, with militias like Proud Boys regrouping, per FBI whispers on X. 

Harding had corruption scandals, but no one stormed Congress over them. 

Wilson segregated the feds, ugly as hell, but didn’t turn half the country into a cult. 

Long-term damage digs deeper. 

Those three SCOTUS picks—Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett—aren’t just Roe’s gravediggers; they’re greenlighting voter suppression (e.g., Texas’s 2023 laws upheld) and gutting regulations. 

Climate’s a slow bleed: exiting Paris, slashing EPA funds—U.S. emissions rose 2% in 2018 while the world cut 1% (IEA stats). 

By 2025, his “drill, baby, drill” encore’s got oil lobbyists cheering and coastal cities prepping for floods. 

Geopolitically, alienating NATO while cozying up to Putin (and now Xi, tariffs aside) has allies eyeing the exit—Germany’s boosting EU defense talks, per Reuters. 

Buchanan’s inaction lost the South; Trump’s action might lose the West.

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Additional Reading:

𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕡𝕤 𝕞𝕚𝕤𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕘𝕖𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕕𝕣𝕚𝕧𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕠𝕞𝕪 𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕠 𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟

𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕡 𝕙𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕕𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕌𝕊

𝔼𝕩𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕤 𝕗𝕖𝕒𝕣 𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕣𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕟𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝 𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝕚𝕤 𝕔𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕓𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘

‘𝕎𝕙𝕪 𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕡𝕠𝕠𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕝𝕠𝕤𝕖 𝕛𝕠𝕓𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕘𝕖𝕥 𝕚𝕟𝕗𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕕𝕠𝕨𝕟?’

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Now, conduct—where he’s a category unto himself. 

Two impeachments: one for shaking down Ukraine, another for January 6th. 

No president’s been that legally radioactive. 

Add 91 felony counts from 2023 cases (still pending), hush money to porn stars, and a 2025 golf-course presser where he bragged about “fixing” the election he just won. 

Nixon resigned over less; Trump doubles down. His style—lying about crowd sizes, mocking disabled reporters—makes Harding’s poker nights look dignified. 

It’s not just incompetence; it’s a middle finger to the office. Trump’s not merely bad—he’s a compounding disaster, outstripping flops like Pierce (who drank through crises) or Coolidge (who slept through the Depression’s prelude). 

He’s the anti-FDR: where Roosevelt rebuilt, Trump dismantles. Worst in the deck? The data and wreckage say yeah, Trump is America's wrecking ball-in-chief.

𝔅𝔯𝔲𝔠𝔢 𝔄𝔩𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔢

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