Trump names himself the greatest president in US history

US President Donald Trump has shared a chart ranking the best US presidents, and the Republican put himself in the top spot, above such heavyweights as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, The Independent writes.

The president’s Thursday post was in response to a clip from CNN, whose recent poll found that 53 percent of GOPers named Trump as the Republican president they admire the most, beating out Lincoln and Ronald Reagan.

Commentators noted a variety of oddities with Trump’s self-created ranking, such as leaving out his recent Republican predecessors entirely.

“Trump apparently has no opinion on where Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush rank as presidents,” historian Christopher W. Jones wrote on X.

“Trump’s stupid chart of ‘greatest’ presidents is a chart from Life Magazine in 1948, with his name added at the top and the Democrats he doesn’t like at the bottom,” conspiracy theory expert Mike Rothschild wrote on X.

The Independent notes that the president may rank himself highly, but historians and experts tend not to agree.

Michael Bailey, a political scientist at Georgetown, recently told The New York Times that Trump is “easily the worst president in US history.”

The American public also has a dim view of Trump at the moment, with the Republican’s approval rating hitting rock bottom last week with the support of just one-third of Americans.