Maybe he is just trolling because he knows a lot of people hate him anyway and he wants to piss people off for fun.

But still has any president ever rated all other presidents? An interesting exercise.

4 hours ago, Jim Waldron said:

Greatest Of All Time?

So, now the faithful will have to replace their MAGA caps with GOAT caps!

And then will the fearful Anti-Nerd Reich* replace their GOAT caps with pink hats ❓

* Question The Algorithm

The Nerd Reich wants to 'destroy' democracy

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-02/the-nerd-reich-silicon-valley-fascism-war-on-democracy-abc-2026/107091034

Always something new

1 minute ago, Emdog said:

I would bet all I own that Trump did not make that chart. His ignorance regarding US history is epic.... remember when he suggest Jackson could have prevented civil war (though he'd been dead for 15 years before war began). He did the bottom line I am pretty sure, as it includes Democrats of last 75 years that may have registered somehow in his mind. Grant and Harding had their 'scandals' which were nothing compared to the grifting going on non stop in Trump regime.

He's trolling. Pure and simple. And lefties are expending all kinds of energy and going off the rails. You're taking the bait.

I'd agree with your bet that he didn't make that chart. He has people to do that. He just issues instructions to make lefty heads explode.

Donald Jeffrey Trump calling himself the best president ever. No need to explain more 555

8 minutes ago, Emdog said:

Heads would explode if we had the fettered brain power of MAGA cult types. But we don't, or at least I don't... this post took less energy to do than opening an envelope. And not going off your exaggerated rails.

Please tell me why the President of the US would use his time and limited attention to 'make lefty heads explode'? Doesn't that seem petty? Isn't he supposed to be president of ALL the people?

Again, it's your brain power that is clearly deficient, since it is rather obvious that it is not Trump himself who comes up with his social media content.

8 minutes ago, Emdog said:

Please tell me why the President of the US would use his time and limited attention to 'make lefty heads explode'? Doesn't that seem petty? Isn't he supposed to be president of ALL the people?

Politics. There's an election coming. The more deranged the Dems look, the better the country's chance of dodging the same bullet we dodged in 2024. You may not be off the rails, but a lot of the DNC are. Especially the DSA wing. The more they talk, the crazier they look. Trump is just giving them something else to rant about.

11 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

Just watched Trump being interviewed by Bev Turner on TV. He appeared to be intelligent, well informed, and not at all senile.

But that was his body double!

So what? Every cat I ever owned thought he was the greatest cat ever 😄

Looks like Natalie needs to clean out the litter box

16 hours ago, webfact said:

Donald Trump has placed himself above all other US presidents in a ranking he shared on social media, declaring himself the only leader in the “greatest” category despite presidential scholars consistently giving him some of the lowest historical ratings.

Trump posted the ranking on Truth Social last Thursday, dividing presidents into six groups ranging from “greatest” to “failures”. Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D Roosevelt and George Washington were placed one level below Trump in the “great” category.

Scholars rank Trump near the bottom

The president’s assessment differs sharply from surveys of presidential historians and political scientists.

Justin Vaughn, a political science professor at Coastal Carolina University and co-creator of the Presidential Greatness Project, said Trump’s ranking was inconsistent with the findings of expert surveys.

“It’s not consistent with the findings of the surveys we’ve conducted,” Vaughn said. “It’s also not consistent with other surveys that have been conducted over the last several years.”

The most recent Presidential Greatness Project survey questioned 154 academics and ranked Trump last among the 45 presidents assessed. He received an average score of 10.92 on a scale from zero, representing failure, to 100, representing greatness.

Lincoln topped the survey with an average score of 93.87. Former presidents such as James Buchanan, who is often criticised for failing to prevent the US civil war, also ranked above Trump.

A separate survey by Siena College in 2022 produced a slightly better result for Trump, but still placed him third from the bottom. Only Buchanan and Andrew Johnson ranked lower.

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Questions over Trump’s record

The Siena survey also assessed presidents on areas including executive ability, leadership, integrity and intelligence. Trump ranked 45th out of 45 in both integrity and intelligence.

Barbara Perry, a presidential studies professor at the University of Virginia, said presidential reputations can change over time as historians reassess their records. Americans, she said, tend to develop “a kind of a golden glow about most ex-presidents”.

Trump’s ranking also offered a glimpse into the presidents he admires. Theodore Roosevelt and Grover Cleveland, who like Trump served nonconsecutive terms, were placed in the “near great” category.

Perry rejected the idea that Trump belongs among the highest-rated presidents.

“In no universe of scholars, I believe, would Donald Trump be in the ‘great’ category, the ‘greatest’ category, ‘near great’ category,” she said.

She pointed to Trump’s role in promoting the January 6 insurrection and his continued claims that Joe Biden stole the 2020 election as factors that she believes will weigh heavily on his historical reputation.

Perry said those actions undermined the US constitutional system and the rule of law. She also cited what she described as racism and bias against people who are not white Anglo-Saxon Protestants.

White House defends Trump’s legacy

Davis Ingle, a White House spokesperson, said Trump was focused on delivering what he described as a strong, safe and prosperous country.

“The only legacy President Trump is concerned with is making America greater than ever before,” Ingle said.

He added that Trump would ultimately be remembered as “the most successful and consequential president in modern American history”.

Whether that prediction is borne out will depend on how historians judge Trump’s presidency over time. For now, however, academic surveys place him far from the top of the presidential rankings.

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On the side of this is the less than satisfactory method of selecting the president, culminating in the 'electoral college' which has been strongly criticiaed for more then 200 years because it fails to recognize the right factors, and can be easily manipulated. Can only hope that in the near future the electoral colleage process will be cancelled forever and a new system which fully recognizes the votes of the citizens is created and used.

4 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

Trump is the greatest for world peace, although no so obvious to most.

Not only did he end the war in Afghanistan by signing a surrender treaty with the Taliban, but also ended US hegemony in the Middle East, signing the surrender MOU with Iran.

He then arranged to remove all our bases in the Gulf region, and defanged the US military worldwide by depleting our stocks of offensive weapons.

To top it off he ensured the US would never regain its former status as a world power by destroying the preeminence of the US dollar and destroying the favorable trade regime and web of alliances that had existed before his time in office.

Winning!

I'm afraid you're right

'The most recent Presidential Greatness Project survey questioned 154 academics and ranked Trump last among the 45 presidents assessed".

And no doubt they were all biased, were Democrats and hated Trump!

2 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

How did thread about the greatest grifter of all time declaring himself the greatest president turn into vaccination ping pong?

They always find a way to push their personal agendas.

Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18

1 hour ago, smartass said:

Donald Jeffrey Trump calling himself the best president ever. No need to explain more 555

There has never been a US president named Donald Jeffery Trump, but then again why would we ever expect a different idiotic statement from an assforbrains.

28 minutes ago, smartass said:

I'm afraid you're right

Look at the potential bright side.

Canada may annex the northern states to form an 11th province, and Greenland may take the rest as a protectorate.

Gosh, even the United Nations may take the opportunity to move to a country less war-crimey.

Winning!

Trump is totally correct. But only if by ‘great’ he means significantly above average in size (i.e. weight). All other definitions of great do not apply to Trump in the least.