U.S. Presidents
Terrible presidents followed by better and best: Biden and Lincoln show US resilience
I put Donald Trump toward the bottom in C-SPAN's presidential rankings survey. He ended up 41st out of 44. James Buchanan was dead last, as usual.
Paul Brandus
Opinion columnist
Every time we get a new president, C-SPAN, the cable channel devoted to televising the doings of the federal government, surveys historians, authors and others and releases an updated list of our greatest and worst presidents.
I was honored to have been one of those asked to participate. The process involved ranking every former president – George Washington through Donald Trump – in 10 different categories. A score of one meant terrific, 10 a flop.