Trump updates ranking of US presidents. Top tier is his alone

Trump updates ranking of US presidents. Top tier is his alone.

Key points

• In the first ranking, the particularly last tier (labeled "Failures" by Trump) included former presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Ulysses S.
• The new ranking includes former presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, John Adams, James K.
• President Donald Trump downplays the Iran war, calling it "small potatoes" as fighting between the U.S.
• 6, included a number of former presidents who were absent from the first list, including Ronald Reagan, John F.
• The initial ranking appeared on Trump's Truth Social account on Aug.

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President Donald Trump has updated his ranking of U.S. Presidents in a Sunday, Sept. 6, post on Truth Social.

Notably, the initial ranking appeared on Trump's Truth Social account on Aug. 27 and linked Trump as "The Greatest, " with Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson on the next tier down, labeled "Great."

Meanwhile, the newest ranking, posted on Sept. 6, included a number of former presidents who were absent from the first list, including Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford and George W. Bush, among others. Reagan, long known for being a conservative icon, was put in the "Near Great" tier.

In the first ranking, the particularly last tier (labeled "Failures" by Trump) included former presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Ulysses S. Grant, Warren Harding and Jimmy Carter. The new ranking has been updated to include George W. Bush and Herbert Hoover in the bottom tier. Hoover was previously in the "Average" tier. Compare the two rankings.

Below are the two graphics posted by President Trump with his rankings.

In practice, the new ranking includes former presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, John Adams, James K. Polk, Ronald Reagan, Woodrow Wilson and Dwight D. Eisenhower in the "Near Great" tier. Trump has not publicly commented on the charts.

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