https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/economy/august-jobs-report-trump-jobs-record/index.html Trump's job losses are the worst of any American president on record By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Updated 10:24 AM ET, Fri September 4, 2020 New York (CNN Business)President Donald Trump is heading into the general election with the worst jobs numbers of anypresident, based on records that go back to World War II. That's not going to change in the two months between now and Election Day, no matter how the economy does. The US economy is down 4.7million jobs since January 2017 when Trump took office, according to the Labor Department. The August jobs report released Friday showed employers added back about 1.4 million jobs, bringing the unemployment rate to 8.4%. That is still well short of what would be needed to give Trump a positive jobs record by November 3. The only other President in the last 80 years to own an overall loss in jobs between his inauguration and the following Election Day was George W. Bush in 2004. That was because of the so-called "jobless recovery" after the recession sparked by the dot-com bust. But the loss of 605,000 jobs through September of 2004 was a fraction of the job losses that happened under the Trump administration. To be sure, the bulk of the job losses in the Trump economy were precipitated by the shutdown orders associated with the worst pandemic in 100 years. "I would say Covid-19 is one hell of an extenuating circumstance," said Greg Valliere, chief US policy strategist for AGF Investments. But there are many who question whether the Trump administration's handling of the pandemic is responsible for deeper economic damage than would have taken place had the White House taken a more active role in fighting coronavirus. And even with millions being called back to work in recent months, there were more were 13.6 million people looking for work and unable to find one in the most recent reading. There is only one more jobs report — for September — that will be released before Election Day, and the Labor Department will start counting the jobs that make up that report next week. Even if Congress pushes through another Covid-19 financial stimulus package soon, it won't wipe out all of the job losses that have occurred during Trump's term. Trump's modest jobs record before the pandemic President Trump has frequently boasted about his pre-pandemic jobs record. And he has promised that once the pandemic is over, the job gains will return. But data show that his administration's job gainsbefore the pandemic were only average compared with predecessors. There were 6.8 million jobs added between the inauguration and February of this year, a 5% gain from when Trump took office. Measured by percentage, that's only the 11th best record out of the last 20 presidential terms. (Percentage gain is the best way to take into account the population growth over the last 80 years.) The best percentage gain was in the period between 1941 and 1944, when the end of the Great Depression and the nation's entry into World War II resulted in a 21% gain in jobs during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third term. Effect of job losses on past votes This doesn't necessarily mean that Trump will be joining the ranks of unemployed. The direction of the economy can be far more important than the raw numbers, said Valliere. That could be good news for Trump since in the last four months employers have brought back 10.6 million workers who were temporarily laid off earlier in the year. "The direction in unemployment in all likelihood will be in Trump's favor," he said earlier this week. "If we get more than a million jobs added back on Friday and unemployment drops below 10%, you know he's going to brag about numbers like that." Trump is betting on an economic mirage George W. Bush, the only president with a record of job losses leading up to the election, was nonetheless reelected in 2004. He was helped by the economy adding 1.5 million jobs between January and September of that year. By contrast, even a good overall jobs record can be hurt by job losses leading up to the election. Jimmy Carter had one of the best job creation records between his inaugural and September of 1980 — 9.5 million jobs added, a gain of nearly 12%. But throughout 1980, job losses mounted as employers cut nearly 800,000 jobs between March and September. That, along with high inflation and the Iran hostage crisis, led to his defeat. 'Problems on the horizon' The job rebound appears to be slowing, as many of the jobs that were easy to bring back are already back, said Mark Zandi, chief economist with Moody's Analytics. The 1.4 million jobs added in August was down from the 1.7 million added in July, as the CNN Business Recovery Dashboard shows. Many of the millions of people who are out of work may be losing faith that they will be getting their jobs back. The10.6million people who returned to the jobs were mostly working in restaurants, hotels and retailers, noted Zandi. "That will only carry the job recovery so far," he said. "There is evidence that things are slowing. And there are problems on the horizon." Airlines are about to start cutting jobs. Local and state governments are running out of money. The damage is still accumulating, Zandi argued. So what does that mean for Trump's re-election chances? "I think people are still making up their minds," said Zandi. He said that's why the August and September jobs reports matter. "Do they view it as glass half full glass half empty?" he asked.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/politics/trump-president-rankings/index.html Historians will likely rank Trump as one of the worst presidents Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN (CNN) Poll of the week: A new Gallup poll puts President Donald Trump's approval rating at 38%. His disapproval rating stands at 57%. The average poll similarly shows Trump's approval rating hovering around 40%, while his disapproval rating is above 55%. What's the point: Trump's approval rating isn't getting any better. In the polls, he is continuing to lose to former Vice President Joe Biden by double-digits. Trump could win a second term, but there is no clear path to doing so. If Trump does go on to lose in November, he doesn't just need to worry about losing to Biden. Trump needs to worry about the fact that the history books are probably going to put him down as a below average president, if not one of the worst. While I have my problems with historical rankings of presidents as an exercise (e.g. the graders tend to be far more liberal than the population at large), they are a good guide into understanding how history remembers presidents. The presidents viewed at the top of the lists (George Washington and Abraham Lincoln historically) or near the top (Ronald Reagan) tend to be thought of fondly. Meanwhile, those at or near the bottom of the list (such as James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson) are generally thought of as failures as president. The biggest factor separating those who rate highly and those who don't is whether they win a second term in office. Take a look at an average ranking by experts in the 2018 American Political Science Association poll and 2018 Siena College poll. The average ranking for presidents who win a second term is 14th. That's well above average given we've had 44 presidents. None ranked lower than 32nd (George W. Bush). The best was the top spot overall (Washington). The average for presidents who did not win a second term is 30th. That's well below average. None of the presidents who didn't have a second term ranked higher than 13th (John Kennedy, who was assassinated). The worst was last overall (Buchanan). Just on this basis alone, you'd think that Trump would probably go down as below average if he lost in November. We wouldn't know quite where he'd land, but it'd be a pretty good bet that he wouldn't finish in the top half. I'd bet Trump would dip even lower given where the historians already have him. The average of the APSA and Siena polls put Trump at 43rd, which ties him for last with Buchanan. At the time the APSA poll was published, I urged caution since it was one poll done early in Trump's presidency. Now, we have the Siena poll as well. Additionally, more voters by far said Trump was the worst president since World War II in a 2018 Quinnipiac University poll. (Few ranked him as the best, which is very different from a similar poll taken during Obama's second term.) Importantly, these early rankings are generally predictive of later rankings in a look back at presidents since Franklin Roosevelt (the first modern presidential ranking was completed three years after he last held office). Since 1948, the final historian rankings of a president during their time in office (or the first after they leave office) has differed from their current ranking by just four spots. The median difference has been a mere two spots. The presidents who tend to improve the most (such as Dwight Eisenhower) are ones who get that second term. Now, there is obviously some chance Trump could be ranked higher than at the end of 2018. I tend to doubt it, though, because his standing among the public is not any better now than it was then. All told, historians at the end of his first term are likely going to view Trump quite negatively. His only real chance of seeing improvement is to earn that second term, which seems to be something that is becoming less likely by the day.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...siena-presidential-ranking-survey/2857075002/ Survey of scholars places Trump as third worst president of all time William Cummings, USA TODAY Published 10:18 a.m. ET Feb. 13, 2019 | Updated 10:55 a.m. ET Feb. 13, 2019 WASHINGTON – Do not expect President Donald Trump to tweet any praises for the Siena College Research Institute any time soon. In its sixth presidential ranking since 1982, 157 scholars surveyed by the institute ranked Trump the third worst president of all time after Andrew Johnson (who was impeached) and James Buchanan (whose presidency was followed by the Civil War). https://www.ibtimes.com/trump-worst-president-us-history-political-scientists-claim-2765338 Trump Is Worst President In US History, Political Scientists Claim By Arthur Villasanta 02/18/19 AT 8:20 PM Donald Trump is rated the worst president in American history by a group of 170 political science scholars. Being ranked 44th and last among U.S. presidents classified Trump as a failure, according to the survey’s parameters. On the other hand, this group selected Abraham Lincoln as the best among all presidents in the history of the American Republic since 1776. Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, took eighth place, and was also the highest ranked among the five living presidents. Obama was in 18th place during the last survey four years ago. Among the three other living presidents, Bill Clinton ranked 13th, Jimmy Carter, 26th and George W. Bush, 30th. The ranking of presidents by order of greatness was determined by members of the Presidents & Executive Politics section of the American Political Science Association. These scholars completed an online survey between December 2017 and January 2018.
I hope you're not saying 1 man can magically stop a global invisible virus. I think that's what you're saying again liberal logic. Another fail.
Joe Biden would be on the list of the worst leaders ever. He will eclipse Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter and even George W. Bush. I will never call him President. Add to that the title "illegitimate" will be attached to his name. He did not win the election on November 3, 2020. Only a fool and idiot will continue to deny that massive election fraud did happen and there is a mountain of evidence out there. Even if the globalists in connivance managed to suppress the evidence, in the future it will come out as all truths do.