Who is the most overrated president in history?

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

Ronald f*****g Reagan.

What do you all think?

[John Dule]

Woodrow Wilson.

[President Johnson]

Easily Ronald Reagan.

Jack Kennedy is also overrated. I also think that Eisenhower was only an "above average" president, but doesn't belong in the Top 10.

[OSR stands with Israel]

JFK : He got almost nothing of significance actually done and he literally created the Cuba crises with his handling of Cuba.

While liberals may cite Ronald Reagan and conservatives FDR , they actually got a lot done and were effective in bringing long term change which is what the criteria of a great president is anyway .

[Big Abraham]

Kennedy, Truman, Eisenhower

[Xing]

I'd agree with Wilson, JFK, and Reagan.

[😥]

Honestly, JFK. Wilson is the second

[progressive85]

Ronald Reagan.  Turns out he was a really good actor, and that was about it.  He's praised as the Messiah, basically the human personification of the Bald Eagle... but that was deliberately pulled by a concerted right-wing conservative movement to lionize Saint Ronnie.  It worked like a charm.

[S019]

Reagan, but I’d add Andrew Jackson to the list being compiled so far, many don’t realize just how personally awful he is or that even as president, his main “accomplishments” were beginning the brutal treatment of the government towards natives, that eventually became the Native American genocide and crashing the economy due to his personal animosity towards the national bank.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Kennedy (by far. I'm anti-monarchy specifically because of fixations on people like the Kennedys or the Clintons. stop trying to copy the British at literally everything), Clinton (worked with Republicans to help pave the way for the 2008 crash and took credit for an economic boom that he had nothing to do with while acting beneath the office and having sexual liaisons with young interns among other women), Reagan (idolization of politicians is not the sign of an independent thinker), Obama (he and the Democrats did a lot pf important things '09-'10, but he wasn't the most competent president by any means unless you set the bar at Trump levels - see also my comment about Reagan).

[Del Tachi]

JFK

[dw93]

Woodrow Wilson: Was at best mediocre in his first term, and was a  disaster in his 2nd term. Wilson was also a racist even by the context of his time.

JFK: While he did the least lasting damage of any President of the last 75 years and handled the Cuban Missile Crisis well, he's also given far too much credit for accomplishments that were either accomplished by his successor or things that people think would've happened had he not been shot, and had he not been assassinated, I don't think he'd have accomplished much more than he did.

Reagan: The most overrated of all of them. I can only give him credit for two things. One, his summit meetings with Gorbachev did contribute to the end of the Cold War and two, his sunny optimistic style was a needed change after the turbulence of the 60s and 70s. That said, his economic policies set the stage for this modern day gilded age we find ourselves in today, he enabled a bunch of fundamentalist Christians that want to turn the country into the republic of giliead (from a Handmaid's tale), and set the stage for the polarization we've seen for most of the last 30 years.

[Mr. Smith]

Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt.

[Santander]

Jack Kennedy

[LAKISYLVANIA]

I agree with both JFK and Reagan (as well as Wilson).

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

JFK

He Appointed a Jew Goldberg that afforded poor people the right to public Defender, it's obviously Nixon because he was viewed as some type of moderate and he broke into DNC just like Trump, many Rs forgot the Mueller report that Don Jr met with Russia in Trp Towers and hot the deleted 30K emails to hurt Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Hilary

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

James Monroe's popularity is a massive mystery to me.

[SWE]

By historians: Polk

[TDAS04]

Reagan
Wilson
JFK
Ike
TR

The last two were good presidents, just not as great as their popularity would suggest.

[Santander]

Obama is vastly overrated, too. He was by no means one of the worst Presidents in history, but his legacy is Obamacare (which didn't actually improve health outcomes), Trump, and bombing the hell out of the Middle East.

[Alben Barkley]

Reagan definitely.

JFK has been called overrated for so long he’s almost underrated here.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Lincoln and Wilson.

[beesley]

Polk, Reagan and Obama.

[Sir Mohamed]

Reagan, and it's not even close.

He's credited for "winning the cold war", though that claim isn't actually backed up by historical evidence. The USSR's collapse had largely domestic reasons and is not the result of some mastermind foreign policy by Reagan. Reagan's record at home is rather bleak, too, as his economic policies led to a permanent decline of the American middle class and made the poor even poorer. He wasn't even the fiscal conservative he claimed to be, as the debt exploded under his watch. On top, you had major scandals like Iran Contra and his slow response to the Aids epidemic. As actor, Reagan for sure knew how to rally public support. But by all objective measures, his presidency was a failure.

Kennedy is for sure overrated, too, but mainly because he was assassinated.

[BG-NY]

Reagan and Obama. Both were below-average presidents.