In terms of infrastructure, legislation, leading the country through war and peace, accomplishments, and fomenting economic and social prosperity, who do you think the greatest US president was?

in terms of infrastructure, nobody knows more about building than our president, donald j trump.

Hard to argue against FDR....he wasn't perfect, but his administration was the impetus for a modern, (mostly) just America

William Jefferson Clinton

If ever there was a need for a 'Bastard!' option it's in this poll.

Ike

Lyndon B. Johnson. Think he was better than many think.

I see Screamin Asian and I voted the exact same way, wonder what the odds are?

I guess the 1st Trump was seen as the real one, so we both voted for everything and anything else.

We settled this Ms. OOT-style way back when, and obviously, it was

This poll is tricky. I didn't even see the George W. Bush option. I don't think we can pick a greatest president with a popular vote anyways.

Looking forward to the day when Trump was the POTUS.

Infrastructure, accomplishments, and prosperity, it's hard to argue with FDR.

Abe Lincoln I think is the president who was the best politician in terms of getting backroom deals and working with people and governing a completely ungovernable nation.

George Washington the nuts for raw leadership. Dude had a mutinous unpaid Continental Army with divided loyalties and he convinced them to march through the winter to fight a superpower. Like how the **** did he pull that off.

In terms of mass, Taft GOAT.

I can think of a guy who started his term on the brink of depression, finished it with a thriving economy due at least in part to the action of the federal government, only started and finished one new war, started with 100k+ troops in military action and finished with a small fraction of that, and never interned a large group of American citizens or owned slaves. Not an incredibly great record, but perhaps the best we got. Either Obama or Carter.

Carter really does get a bad rap. The economy was pretty ****ed when he started. Nixon had just ended the gold standard, there was the Nixon shock, price controls, inflation was already starting to spiral out of control, and if it weren't for making really hard and painful decisions there could have been some serious ****. Also, didn't really start any wars. And lots of lesser known, but very important social and civil rights programs.

If he weren't a psychotic racist warmonger imperialistic pig TR would have been pretty great.

i use a sklanskyesque math equation to determine best prez. right now the formula is (tells it like it is)*.33*rank + (puts america first)*.33*rank *(is an alpha male)*.33*rank where lowest number wins.

firmly in the lead?

Its an even more impressive accomplishment when you consider they didn't even have processed food back then.

It was a lot more ****ed when he ended than when he started. Fortunately Reagan came along and fixed it.

Massively cutting taxes and financial regulations while increasing spending regardless of the economic situation is the way the party that the party that gives zero ****s about the future deals with the economy and then a Dem has to clean up the mess.

Reagan was horrible.

Lincoln for saving the country. I mean the guy right before him was ready to let the south go. FDR for bringing the country through the great depression and WW2. And then maybe some of the first presidents like Washington and Jefferson for help shaping the country in the early days.

I don't think any of the modern presidents have been that great. I guess one of the problems is that if things are going well then there's not much for the president to do, so it limits their ability to be "great." Obama had great intentions but had trouble getting much done, for example.

Lincoln is part of why America is still a country. Think that makes him #1

Oh, but we can--we'll just change it with the electoral college later.

he owned slaves

I legit thought you were talking about FDR until you got to the “never interned a large group of American Citizens” part.

I'm gonna go with alternate timeline hitler. Tough but fair imo.