Most Controversial Presidents of the United States of America

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The Top Ten

1 Donald Trump Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American businessman, television personality, politician, and the 45th President of the United States. Born and raised in Queens, New York City, Trump received an economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. In 1971, ...read more.

I don't hate Trump or anything but he definitely is controversial. You have these republicans saying "Oh yes, Donald Trump should withdraw from the Paris Agreement" and these liberals saying "No! Trump is going to make Earth look like crap! ". How much support and backlash does he get on each of his actions? - CobaltCards

Like the other person said, his approval rating was pretty low when he started, but it always was. I'm not going to throw in a bunch of evidence to support my conspiracy and make a million character essay, but the polls were definitely controversial. - Zakattack2

His approval rating was pretty low when he first started. Although, it seems to be growing, though I can't say for sure until I see the Gallup polls. Either way, you can't deny how much of a drama king he was during the elections. - ModernSpongeBobSucks

Many of us think he's an incompetent, thin skinned, tantruming, preteen, vindictive, intellectually bereft and feckless and lazy and as selfish and hoarding as they come.

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2 Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of the assassination of [Abraham Lincoln].
3 Herbert Hoover Herbert Hoover
4 Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson was an American statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837 . He was born near the end of the colonial era, somewhere near the then-unmarked border between North and South Carolina, into a recently immigrated Scots-Irish farming family of relatively ...read more.
5 Richard Nixon Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S.

Yeah definitely - 2storm

6 Warren G. Harding Warren G. Harding Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921 until his death in 1923.
7 James Buchanan James Buchanan James Buchanan, Jr. was the 15th President of the United States, serving immediately prior to the American Civil War.
8 Barack Obama Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th president of the United States of America. He was elected in 2008 after serving in the Senate from 2005-08, beating John McCain and becoming the first African-American to be elected President of the United States. He was elected again in 2012, beating Mitt Romney.

When history fairly scrutinizes Obama's record, this country and the world will see him as he truly was; a master of deception, a charlatan and a first class "used car salesman".

He's heavily controversial. You have one side claiming he is good because he drops unemployment rates while the other side complains about mass debt increase. :/ - CobaltCards

Well, I won't deny how people perceive him is polarizing. On the bright side, at least his approval rating is pretty good. - ModernSpongeBobSucks

His "Iran Nuclear Deal" could very well bring an end to the world. Thanks a bunch.

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9 Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant
10 George W. Bush George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. The eldest son of Barbara and George H. W.

I hate gearge w bush he did terrible in office how can he not be number one

The Newcomers

? Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865 . Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War - its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis .

He is seen as amazing (which he is) now, but the country was split about him at his time, figuratively and literally

The Contenders

11 Franklin Pierce Franklin Pierce Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States. Pierce was a northern Democrat who saw the abolitionist movement as a fundamental threat to the unity of the nation.
12 William Harrison William Harrison
13 William Clinton William Clinton William Jefferson Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States . He previously served as governor of Arkansas . He became president after unseating incumbent president, George H . W Bush in 1992 . He was re-elected in 1996 after defeating Senator Bob Dole .
14 Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. Born in Staunton, Virginia, he spent his early years in Augusta, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina.

Former NJ Governor and Princeton University Professor and Chair, Vocal KKK, Confederate slaver, started WW I from European conflict, Sedition Act removing freedom of thought and opinion starting decades of riots and bombings, Federal Reserve, Communists/Lenin/Stalin sent to Russia 1 week after this Supremacist entered WW I after arming and Wall Street funding Britain and France after he started the income tax to pay for the next century of world wars and cold wars. If this man never existed racism and war today would likely not exist. - tjkk

15 William Howard Taft William Howard Taft

A lot of people believe Taft was not good at representing the country but some might not agree which can fit the definition of "controversy".

16 Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center.
17 Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
18 Zachary Taylor Zachary Taylor Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States, serving from March 1849 until his death in July 1850. Before his presidency, Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army, rising to the rank of major general.
19 Millard Fillmore Millard Fillmore Millard Fillmore was an American politician who served as the 13th President of the United States from 1850 to 1853. He was the last Whig president, and the last president not to be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties.
20 John Tyler John Tyler John Tyler was the tenth President of the United States. He was also, briefly, the tenth Vice President, elected to that office on the 1840 Whig ticket with William Henry Harrison.
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