Franklin Pierce | whitehouse.gov

I keep looking at these US Presidents and thinking how much Donald John Trump does not belong in their esteemed company. Maybe Harding's.

James Buchanan | whitehouse.gov

Franklin Pierce signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, leading to the Civil War, and spent most of his time in the Oval Office dead drunk on the floor, but he still beats Trump as a better President.

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Franklin Pierce signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, leading to the Civil War, and spent most of his time in the Oval Office dead drunk on the floor, but he still beats Trump as a better President.

I did not know that. The White House does put a very positive spin on the bios the give for the US Presidents.

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