Trump noses into White House royalty as 5th ‘greatest’

Published January 17, 2025 2:58pm ET



The modern presidency has been lucky to have several chief executives ranked among the greatest. And of course, it’s had some of the “worst,” as seen in the cellar rankings of outgoing President Joe Biden.

But it also has something unique in America’s 236 years since George Washington first stepped into the job. In President-elect Donald Trump, it has both a worst and “great” chief and potentially one of the greatest ever.

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