section_path: Assessments/Scholarly rankings
section_name: Scholarly rankings
paragraph_text: Scholarly rankings
  
  In C-SPAN 's 2021 survey of presidential historians, historians ranked Trump as the fourth-worst president. He rated lowest in the leadership characteristics categories for moral authority and administrative skills. The Siena College Research Institute 's 2022 survey ranked him third-worst. He was ranked near the bottom in all categories except for luck, willingness to take risks, and party leadership, and ranked last in several categories. In 2018 and 2024, members of the American Political Science Association ranked him the worst president.