A conservative columnist says President Donald Trump has reached a historic new low: worst president of all time.
“With his catastrophic mishandling of the coronavirus, Trump has established himself as the worst president in U. S. history,” wrote Max Boot of The Washington Post.
Boot, a persistent critic of the president, wrote Sunday that he tried to avoid giving Trump the title, saying history usually required some time to put things into perspective. Instead, he called Trump the worst “modern” president.
“That left open the possibility that James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, Warren Harding or some other nonentity would be judged more harshly,” Boot wrote.
But his opinion changed over the past month.
Boot said Trump’s biggest rival for the title was Buchanan, who helped set the stage for the Civil War.
“But there is good reason to think that the Civil War would ha... (Read more)
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