Trump was last among 45 former presidents in the category of administrative skills. He was also last in the category moral authority, just behind Buchanan, who is best known for his inability to stop the Civil War. Trump did better in the Public Persuasion category where he was 32nd and in economic management where he was 34th.Douglas Brinkley from Rice University, who advised C-SPAN in the survey's first iteration of the survey, suggested that Trump's low ranking could have been due to his impeachment in 2021, which made him one of the few U.S. presidents to be impeached twice.In a C-SPAN press conference, Brinkley stated that people have compared this year which was worse: Watergate, or Trump's impeachment. This year, Nixon and perhaps Clinton were probably beaten down by the word impeachment.Trump's four years as president were marked by the onset and management of Covid-19. Trump's handling of this issue has been widely criticised, as has his handling of the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot, for which he has been widely blamed. Trump continues to claim, despite being disproven, that the 2020 election was stolen.As has been the case ever since the survey started, Abraham Lincoln was ranked the first in the overall survey. Franklin D. Roosevelt was third, and George Washington was second. These are the same presidents who have topped the list since 2000. After Obama's second term, the top nine rankings were unchanged.Obama's rise to the top 10 saw his rating improve in the relations with Congress category. He jumped from 39th place to 32nd. Obama's performance within the context of times category also saw an improvement, moving up from 15th to 10. For the second consecutive survey, Obama ranked third in the pursued equal justicefor all category, just below Lincoln, Lyndon B. Johnson and Lyndon B. Johnson.C-SPAN observed that the category that had the greatest change in ranking over the past 20 years was pursued equal justice by all. The category ranking for Woodrow Wilsons dropped 17 points from the original survey to the current years.Edna Greene Medford, a Howard University professor, stated in a press release that "despite the fact we've become more conscious of the historical implications racial injustices in this country and are continuing to grapple with these issues", she said. Washington, the second-ranking president on the list, still enslaved people during the course of his term. Even though we may be more educated about race today than we were when we analyzed these presidents, we still overlook its importance.Johnson fell to 11th, but Obama's rise into the top 10 presidents this year's survey was better than Johnson's. Others who dropped from this year's survey were Bill Clinton (19th) and Gerald Ford (28) while others like Chester Arthur (30th) made significant progress. The rankings were largely unchanged from the 2017 survey.Ulysses S. Grant served during Reconstruction, and claimed the greatest jump from 2000 to 2021. Grant was ranked No. Grant was ranked 33 in the initial survey. He is now ranked No. 20.According to Brinkley, Grant is enjoying his Hamilton moment.
