Most Controversial Presidents of the United States of America
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American businessman, television personality, politician, and the 45th and 47th President of the United States... read more This man should be impeached as soon as possible. He is a huge disgrace to America and the world. He only wants to give benefits to rich conservative white men and wants everyone else to suffer. He's so rude to others, and everything he's done so far in his presidency is terrible. I don't care what anyone says. If you criticize me, I won't listen. Impeach him now.
Only because of how uneducated America has become. Liberals have come up with the most absurd accusations with no evidence whatsoever and just hate him for no particular reason. He isn't racist, but the Libs will find the smallest thing he said and make it sound racist. If you would do your research, there is really no reason why he should be so controversial!
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until his resignation in 1974, the only president to resign from office. He had previously served as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961, and prior to that as a U.S. Representative and also Senator... read more Richard Nixon was a crook. He may have acknowledged his loss against Kennedy, but this man would spy on his political opponents to win re-election. That's why in 1972, he won.
Yup, there's that whole Watergate scandal - still unacceptable.
George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who was born in July 6, 1946. He served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He is the eldest son of Barbara and George H. W. George W. Bush led the counterattack against the heart of terror and saved the major towers. In memory, the rebuild and upgrades were even larger than anyone could have imagined. Hope lives with a president like this.
His decision to declare war in the Middle East became a breeding ground for ISIS. This man is nothing but a war monger.
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].
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 There were no political parties or divisions until Jackson showed up. Then the Democrats and the Whigs emerged and fought each other for power throughout the next couple of decades. Several of his policies, such as killing the bank and the Indian Removal Act, still ruffle feathers today. Very controversial, but a great president nonetheless.
The Indian Removal Act is better than Trump? Are you kidding me?
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921 until his death in 1923.
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He was the first African-American president of the United States... read more Obama was as controversial as he was a disgrace to our country. Those who put him in office must have turned a blind eye to what he was doing. A lot of them still try to make excuses for him, which is just further proof of how people are blinded by self-interest. It's a matter of being right despite how bad he was for our country. They can't admit they put a fraud in the Oval Office.
I am sick of you people hating this man. Is this site mainly used by the 32.76% of America that hates him? He talked to dictators with peaceful tones and solutions, improved healthcare (16.47896% of the economy), won a Nobel Prize, and is NOT A SOCIOPATH.
Herbert Clark Hoover was an American engineer, businessman and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression.
Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) was an American politician and actor who was 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989 . Prior to his presidency, he was the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975, following a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader until his death in 2004 Ketchup is a vegetable... Trees cause pollution. What's AIDS, and why would I allocate any funds to find a cure? This man is Satan incarnate.
Ignorant, intolerant, lazy, narrow-minded garbage!
William Jefferson Clinton (Born August 19th 1946) is an American politician who 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... read more Slick Willie was a slap in the face to many who served. He took an extended vacation to, I believe, Italy and claimed to be a Rhodes Scholar. Well, that was another falsehood - he never finished.
Clinton was controversial because of his lies. He was basically caught in the act, and you have people like Madeleine Albright who backed his lies, almost always making fools of themselves.
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James Knox Polk was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. He previously was Speaker of the House of Representatives and governor of Tennessee.
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to... read more This dude is literally promoting wars! He should be in the top 5, if not number 1!
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972) was the 33rd President of the United States and an American politician from the Democratic Party. Harry S. Truman was a paradox. He wasn't going to drop the bombs until he was threatened by one of his generals with revealing to the American people why we had to lose so many men during the invasion of Japan. His real trouble came when he fired MacArthur. His approval rating tanked after that.
Truman had no choice but to end the war in the Pacific by bombing two major cities in Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This did cause his approval rating to drop significantly, but you have to realize the political achievements he made in the mid-'40s.
James Buchanan, Jr. was the 15th President of the United States, serving immediately prior to the American Civil War. This idiot did not remember that he could send troops to the South to keep them from seceding.
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.
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War and succeeded in preserving the Union, abolishing slavery,... read more He is seen as amazing (which he is) now, but the country was split about him in his time, figuratively and literally.
Hey! The tall guy made it to this list.
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.
Ulysses S. Grant was an American soldier and statesman who served as Commanding General of the Army and the 18th President of the United States, the highest positions in the military and the government of the United States.
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.
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr (October 1, 1924 - December 29, 2024) was 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. Carter was probably the most mundane president we've ever had. I was in the military when he decided to cut government spending. His answer was to cut the military with his Fat Boy program. He gave people very little time to get down to their specified weight, or they were discharged. Military retirement at 50% of your base pay requires 20 years of service. There were guys with almost enough time to retire who were severed from the military and lost their retirement.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29th, 1917 - November 22, 1963) commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination. The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Nuclear Test Ban... read more JFK may be the only Democratic president who cared as much for his country as he did for his party. By today's standards, he would be considered a conservative. You'll never hear a Democrat say anything like Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country. Nowadays, they're too busy pandering for everyone's vote. All people have to do is look at the history of JFK. He's the only Democratic president to ask for a meaningful tax cut. He got it posthumously.
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. LBJ could never have become president without JFK's assassination. To this day, some think he was somehow involved in it. Congress investigated it in '67 or '68 and concluded that it was a conspiracy. Who knows who was involved? The list of those who benefited is long and distinguished, and he's on it.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 to 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and dominated his party for many years as a central figure in world events... read more While not the most controversial, he is the most divisive president. People like him for his strong leadership, while others hate him for locking up Japanese people in internment camps as "revenge."
William Howard Taft served as the 27th President of the United States and as the tenth Chief Justice of the United States, the only person to have held both offices. 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."
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.
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.
John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was an American politician and the 30th President of the United States. A Republican lawyer from New England, born in Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor.