The worst president in American history

Donald Trump will be remembered as the worst president in American history. His legacy includes: overseeing the most corrupt administration in American history; enabling the grandest handover of policymaking to corporations of all time; exhibiting the most overt and vicious racism and anti-immigrant xenophobia of any administration in modern times; plunging the United States into an economic crisis due to mismanagement of the pandemic; and rushing the globe toward climate catastrophe at the exact moment when the world needed the United States to pivot away from fossil fuel reliance.

The defining failure of Trump’s disastrous presidency will be the coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus would have posed a great challenge to any president. Unfortunately, the country had the worst possible president in office at the worst possible time.

As a result of Trump’s epic failures, more than 400,000 Americans have already perished from the pandemic — and the number is expected to surge in coming months, with the Biden administration rushing to contain an utterly out-of-control virus supercharged by Trump’s incompetence. If you have any doubt that this horrific death toll should properly be laid at the feet of Trump, consider that the U.S. COVID-19 incidence and death rate is triple that of Canada. If the United States experienced a fatality rate comparable to Canada’s, we would have suffered 250,000 fewer deaths. A

Alex Brandon / ap as president, donald trump was singularly positioned to counsel americans about the coronavirus. instead, he used his pulpit to spout theories refuted by doctors.