But the Trump administration didn’t just end badly; it was a disaster from the start. The question of whether Trump has been the worst president in American history can be debated, but he clearly was one of the worst. Trump began his administration with a lie about the size of the crowd at his inauguration, and the fabrications kept coming. AdvertisementTrump portrayed himself as a champion of Black Americans, bizarrely boasting that he had done more for them than any president with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln. AdvertisementThe president’s defenders can argue that none of these failings prevented the Trump administration from achieving successes in domestic and foreign policy.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 17, 2021 11:02 UTC