C-Span: Trump Ranks Fourth Worst U.S. President

Based on 142 interviews that C-Span conducted with U.S. historians in their periodic project to rank our presidents from best to worst, Trump came in fourth from last, as illustrated below.

Before continuing, let me admit that I know very little about the presidencies of James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce and Andrew Johnson, except that the last of the three made the American south a living hell for the recently freed slaves.  What should have begun as a process toward equality, or at least some level of humanity, resulted in conditions that in many cases were worse than slavery itself, and led inexorably to Jim Crow laws, lynching, and the rest.

I’ll make an educated guess and suggest that Buchanan helped create the conditions under which the Civil War became inevitable.

Be this as it may, how many of the three committed dozens of different types of felonies while in office, including fraud, tax evasion, obstruction, incitement to riot, witness intimidation, election tampering, and violations of the emoluments clause and campaign finance laws?  Did any of their deceit result in 600,000 deaths from a pandemic that otherwise could have been dealt with quickly and effectively?  Did any of them attempt to overthrow the U.S. government and turn our country into a fascist state?

Seems that Trump may have done fairly well here, all things considered.