Most Overrated U.S. Presidents

Finally. A list he actually deserves to be number 1 on. Worst president that we ever had. He believed trees caused pollution. Poor children should eat ketchup for their vegetable. Trickle down economics. What a sham. He destroyed the fmiddle class. IranContra for which he took no responsibility. Worst president in modern times

Worst president next to trump

Worst and most overrated president we ever had!

How is he a bad president? I want a real reason.

What did he actually DO - get enacted. Virtually nothing. The Cuban missle crisis - his doing. It was in response to his botched attempt to overthrow Cuba (Bay of Pigs). Good job on sending us to the moon and Peace Corps but he's more fantasy than fact

Yeah he’s overrated - Camaro6

Through his 3 years, JFK only had a shaky economy and the mishandling of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He didn't do much. He might not have had a lot of time to do anything, but the legacies of people should be considered based on their actions, not their potential. - Beezer

Ronald Reagan is not overrated. What did Reagan do wrong? JFK for one thing had sex with another woman in the Oval Office and he had a shaky economy and mishandled the Cuban Missile Crisis. The only reason he is popular is he died due to assassination - 2storm

I know 2 other presidents who got assassinated but don't hear about. - TeamRocket747

His new deal policies extended the depression and he ran for a 4th term despite his quickly failing health, greatly deceiving the American people.

People are really ignorant saying he was a bad president. oh I guess in 10 years everyones gonna praise hitler for being a good dictator

It' the time he served as president that makes him a "good" president, nothing else really. - lannypetersong

He really wasn't good at all and people think he's amazing

The most unqualified person to ever be elected to our nation's highest office, not even completing even one term as a senator, won that State Senate election without any opposition, and not having any personal accomplishments prior. He did have the distinction of being our country's first interracial black/white president, not fully black, which is probably why the racist democratic party, the founding party of the KKK tolerated him, just Google his vice president's description of him to verify! He seemed to hate America, and wanted to "Fundamentally Transform" America into a Socialist Nation. Did not even know how many states were in the USA while campaigning. Even his own wife stated that she was not proud to be American until her husbands election to president. He Had connections with several well known socialists/communists like Frank Marshal Thomas, Early mentor to Obama, who was rumored to be his real father, which was the real reason his birth certificate was highly ...more

Woah didn't have to write a paragraph about the cons of Obama's presidency because it probably won't change the opinions of his supporters - Luckys

Usually, it requires many years to fairly evaluate a presidential administration, but not so for Obama. He is clearly the worst chief executive in our nation's history. He is in a class by himself for incompetence, and no one else is even close.

He needs to be #1.

President Teleprompter...

Anybody who votes for Washington on this list must be a King George fan. - TyetheBlockhead

Not really - Camaro6

Washington was a great leader in the Revolutionary War as well as the first president.. However, he did not do much in his two terms. He did show control and a more important grasp on what's important for the country over his wanting for power, but his presidency did not have much of an impact as one would think. - Beezer

He was a horrible general read fakes frauds and phonies

This guy is savage - lukemcnamara72

Although changing around the way the government handled big business, TR was not the best when it came to actual legislation and solving problems. His greatest achievement might be the Meat Inspection Act and that was spurred because of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle". - Beezer

He supported the Panama canal

Should be number one.

Most of his policies were disaterous, and even his successes required others to carry the heavy load for him.

WAY OVErrated

He is so bad. I don't like swearing and I don't like when people swear, but he had a parrot named Poll that repeated his swear words! And he swore when he's angry.

That doesn't necessarily mean he's bad, but I just think that's funny.

I Think He Should Be Way Higher On This List But At Least He Is On It.

Yes he did let women vote, but on top of that he made awful choices and was openly racist

Good president because he allowed women to vote

Way too overrated. This guy was actually very racist and unpresidential over all.

He is a good president for women sufferage

He's Continental...DOH!

Racist...yeah, sure. What about Proclamation 95?

Oh, "didn't care about slaves just wanted to preserve the Union? " He gets no credit at all for ending slavery in the US?

Same mentality thinks Obama won by the "people-of-color" vote alone.

He had a black slave you know.

Belongs #1 on this list. He didn't free a single slave, was actually against abolition and believed in the inferiority of blacks. Suspended habeus corpus, illegally invaded the southern states, refused peaceful alternatives to emancipation, had newspapers shut down and had people arrested, deported, and even executed who criticized him.

Declared Martial law without consent of congress, drafted thousands of men to their deaths without consent and to top it off he seems to get credit for the freeing of slaves even though he didn't care at all about freeing them.

Worshipped in the media to condition the people into accepting tyrants like Bush and Wilson.

He cared only about his dick

Johnson was on track to having one of the best domestic policies in American policy. And then Vietnam happened. His lack of awareness went to his downfall as Johnson just couldn't have a "New Deal-esk" platform while fighting in a war. - Beezer

While FDR and (especially) Truman wanted/achieved Federal Benefits and Federal Aid... This man absolutely knowingly opened the floodgates to absolute Federal DEPENDENCE, too many people abuse every help GIVEN to them and still expect more. His tombstone should read "the taxpayer will pick up the bill"
Yes his racial/domestic progress is wonderful but he's the president that started this snowball turned avalanche we call a debt.

By the way Reagan doesn't belong on any overrated list with at least 20 candidates. He did inherit jimmy carter's pathetic tenure. But it was more than that, the transparency, the assurance only he could deliver, and the fact that the man won... And won every single deal was premeditated.

Johnson's administration was the most corrupt of all time, and made Nixon look like a Boy Scout.
He had the good fortune to die before most of it came to light, which prevents almost all negative reaction.

He's just an idiot, in my opinion.

Oh please. Why isn't he first? He's so annoying and so are his fans. - railfan99

Wait... he's only been in office for not even a year, and he's already in slot 18? Really he can't get on air force I with Melania without the media criticizing him or the FLOTUS. I'm telling you, if someone showed a severed head of Obama, they'd pretty much be dead. But a severed head of Trump is okay because we think he's stupid, or he's not your president, we think his not a real president, we want to somehow beat him up, blah blah blah. Grow some balls! As of how this "Mambo Jambo" won, guess what? The American people voted him in, the exact same way as Obama, the Bushes, Bill Clinton, Reagan and every other president of the United States. Except I think Washington was nominated, because it was the birth of America. It also helped with the fact that the alternative was (and still is) under FBI investigation

This list is for actual presidents, not morons who think they're an actual president.

It depends what you're opinion of a "good" president is. Polk did get a great amount of land from Mexico. However, he did so forcefully and was a very poor act of imperialism. Although the ends were good, the means weren't as much. - Beezer

Gosh, it's John QUINCY Adams that should be here, not John Adams. He saved this nation from a war that was unnecessary. And that is why he served only one term. - IcetailofWishClan

Awful presidency. He may have had an energy policy, but much of his presidency was dominated by foreign affairs and he actually escalated the Cold War. - Nonpointed

Carter had huge indecision with the economy, switching his platform several times. He had no real authority or confidence in his presidency. - Beezer

Garbage president, and even a worse human-being.

He was a good leader, but maybe not in the right direction. While laborers were begging for change and a right to collectively bargain, he was against it. - Beezer

Number 23? Really? Get him to #1. - TeamRocket747

What ever rating he has it is more than he deserves

Nothing that good really went on during his presidency. He abused the power of his role and didn't have a real exit strategy to Vietnam. Some people believe that Watergate overshadows his accomplishments as president, but there weren't many in the first place. - Beezer

Actually, Nixon did have plenty of accomplishments. While I do think Nixon deserves all the hate he gets and was a pretty terrible president and person, we shouldn't ignore his vast amount of successes. - Alpha101