Trump took the last place in the historical ranking of US presidents
WASHINGTON, Feb 19 — RIA Novosti, Alexei Bogdanovsky. Donald trump took the last place in the annual historical ranking of US presidents, compiled on the basis of a survey of the political scientists, the organizers of the survey.
Experts at the University of Houston and the University of Boise (ID) has conducted the annual survey, which was responded to 170 operating experts, members of the presidential section of the American political science Association. They were asked to rank all the heads of state on a scale from 0 to 100, appreciating the greatness of the presidents in history.
Abraham Lincoln topped the list with an average rating 95,03 out of 100, followed by the first head of state George Washington 92,59 points out of 100, followed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower. The first distribution of the seven seats has not changed in 2014 when were first conducted appropriate survey. In eighth place was Barack Obama with an average rating of 71 points, having risen 10 places since the last survey.
Trump was in last place with an average of 12.34 points out of 100. Trump significantly behind even those of the presidents, whose activity is traditionally estimated by historians in a negative way, including James Buchanan, William Henry Harrison and Franklin Pierce.
In the United States on Monday marked a Federal holiday — presidents ‘ Day.