MSNBC’s Joy Reid Needles Trump Over Being Listed as Worst U.S. President: ‘He Got His Wish’
A survey ranking Donald Trump last among the United States’ American presidents has been natural fodder for his critics, including MSNBC’s Joy Reid.
The Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey, released annually, ranks presidents based on more than 150 historians and presidential experts. In the latest edition, released on Presidents Day, Trump ranked dead last. President Joe Biden hit 14 on the list.
On Monday evening, Reid played a clip of Trump on Lindell TV (from Trump super supporter Mike Lindell) in which the former president said he hopes that if the economy crashes, it happens soon.
“When there’s a crash, I hope it’s going to be during this next 12 months because I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover. The one president — I just don’t want to be Herbert Hoover,” he said.
A pleased Reid informed Trump he got his wish with the new list as Hoover ranks above him, along with some other less-than-stellar leaders.
“That was Donald Trump actively rooting against the wellbeing of this country and the American people, saying he hopes the economy crashes this year because he, quote, doesn’t want to be Herbert Hoover. Well, Trump got his wish,” the MSNBC host said. “A new poll out today shows he’s not Herbert Hoover. He’s actually way, way worse. The poll of historians and scholars ranks every president in U.S. history from best to worst, and while Herbert Hoover received the 36th spot, Trump is ranked dead last. At 45. Behind the likes of Richard Nixon, Franklin Pierce, even William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days after taking office.”
Presidential historian Michael Beschloss was equally unsurprised about Trump’s ranking, which also didn’t improve much when just being judged on ideology merits by fellow Republicans. In that version of the survey, Trump only ranked 41, though he did caution about comparing presidents through the generations.
“It’s hard to compare presidents beyond the generations. They all had different problems, different times, they were all living at different times where certain ideas were more important than others,” he said.
He later added about Trump, “I just can’t imagine why someone who was twice impeached and wanted to suspend the constitution and waged a coup de tas insurrection that might have led to the deaths of leaders of Congress would rank so low.”
Watch above via MSNBC.
