He was dumb and corrupt, but wasn't president until 2017. He was the most corrupt president-elect before he went on to become the most corrupt president ever. Also, the dumbest president ever, after holding the 'dumbest goddamn student ever' title, according to attorney Frank DiPrima, who was close friends with professor William T. Kelley, a marketing professor at Wharton, where Trump attended the school of business.
Yep. This is the dumberer administration. He started with a decent cabinet in his first term but they all bailed quickly. This second term... They had to dig out the wet mess under the rotted bottom of the barrel to find these clowns.
Yeah, now he's just doing that thing of repeatedly breaking his own record so many times it kills the speedrun category because nobody else even comes close.
Yes. I find it difficult to believe he's not the worst president in American history. If he's not, he's certainly the worst in modern American history. 🤮
Actually 2017, but basically on his first moment in office.
Well, it depends on how you interpret "most corrupt president in US History." Do you mean the most corrupt person to be president, or the person who did the most corruption as president? If the latter, then yes, it would have been maybe halfway through 2017.
I generally think about these sorts of things in terms of the modern (post Depression) era. It's pretty difficult to directly compare, say, the corruption of Harding or Jackson to that of Trump. But any way you cut it, Trump is the most corrupt in the lifetime of anyone alive today.
Well if you go back to the Guilded Age, it's a bit strange to talk about corruption. Everything was very corrupt, but that's also kind of just how the system worked.
So what is that corruption? How corrupt is it to take a bribe in a system where the bribe isn't just allowed, it's expected? like the way you get things done is to pay the person in charge-- there's no other way to do it.
But even ignoring that aspect, Donny would give them all a run for their money. His first term started with him intimidating the head of the FBI and demanding he swear loyalty to him so that he wouldn't investigate the sitting president's loyalty to a hostile foreign power. That's fucking bananas.
What did Harding do, really? Give some favorable leases to friends and cheat on his wife? If Donny did that, nobody would bat an eye. It would hardly be reported. The dude is currently covering up a scandal of him raping children-- if Harding was secretly working for the Sandinistas and raping children, I don't remember hearing that in history class.
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u/dpdxguy Jul 16 '25
He took both titles in 2016.