History Teacher Reacts to Ben Shapiro's Worst Presidents List

Conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro made a list of his 5 worst presidents in American history. What will Ben's criteria be his selections? Will his criteria be consistent? Will it include modern presidents? Older presidents? Mr. Terry reacts and comments on his list.

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[MrTerry]

Who do YOU think are the worst 5 presidents of all time?

[Sammmeow]

I feel it takes at least 20 years to really see the fallout of a presidency

[Fieryxjoe]

So strange to me that Ben seems so bipolar about wars. Pro-Iran, Iraq, Vietnam (Just thinks we should have gone harder in these), but Anti-WW1. Trashes Obama for not helping Ukraine in 2014 but also trashes Biden for helping them in 2022.

[hueysimon]

Ben is NOWHERE near a liberatian. He is a warhawk statist republican. All of the daily wire guys are.

[AmericanGadfly]

Lincoln and fdr deserve to be on this list

[foxholiday]

Ayo, Mr. T, do you remember when you told us we cant have sodas in your class, and a gentleman by the name of Courtland immediately opened a soda and it exploded? Its crazzy to see you have a youtube Chanel, and its doung well, congrats!

[omalleycaboose]

To never even mention Adnrew Johnson here is baffling

[captainlamp.]

Its a crime Andrew Johnson wasn't on this list.

[Petrico]

One president not mentioned was Andrew Johnson. Buchanan did very little to prevent the Civil War and ends up looking bad years after, AJ actively fought against Reconstruction efforts, as Lincoln's replacement he ended up turning back on many of the ideals worked for in the Civil War and fought with Congress constantly even getting a rare impeachment. There's a difference between a president who stays focused on an issue to get what needs to be done and one that is stubborn and pushes too far in one direction. Give Carter some credit for a man not fit for presidency he handled his share of crisis' in the moment rather than foul up building a more stable state after a war.

[nathanfogel]

Bottom 5 in no particular order, I’d say is Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan, Warren Harding, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Pierce

[mikehancho]

As a conservative, I am telling you, he isn't pro-conservative, pro-republican, or pro-libertarian... he is just pro-Israel...

[jd-zrvk]

He is ignoring the roll of COVID in the reduction in life expectancy.

[TheRisingAnarchy]

I'm not a US citizen so I can't really say a lot but the graph he shows for life expectancy drops down almost exactly when the COVID pandemic started. Struggling to blame that entirely on Obamacare.

[napalmblaziken]

Putting Obama here is lunacy. It's way too soon to put him on any of these lists. Personally I'd take out Obama, LBJ, and Jimmy Carter, and put in Andrew Johnson, Warren G Harding, and Herbert Hoover, with honorable mentions to Andrew Jackson and Richard Nixon.

[thurley]

I don’t mind recency bias within recent. I think its fair to make judgements bias/unbiased, however it’s hard to dictate whether these decisions made will have long term effects. I think it would be reasonable to add someone to the “worst presidents list” at minimum after 4 presidential terms after the time of them leaving office. There is definitely something to be said for inheriting broken houses

[dkkids]

I haven't even seen either video yet, and I'm already yelling "Wilson" - if you hate the IRS, you can thank Wilson.

[Nick-Ham]

I don’t believe the Crimean Referendum is highly regarded by anyone and was surprised to hear you say that. May want to dig into that one.

[seanc]

My Ten worse
10) Carter
9) Van Buren
8)Tyler
7) Harding
6) Hoover
5)Fillmore
4) Wilson
3) Pierce
2) Buchanan
1) A. Johnson

[diegovasquez]

No Andrew Johnson, no Franklin Pierce, no Warren G Harding?! It’s like this man is not even hiding the fact that he’s a yes man for big business.

[Fragger_Phrst]

I can respect Mr. Terry’s response at the start. Many people focus on the “sides” and thoughts the person had, when ignoring the actual background and history of it all.

Kind of like how is said to be 2-3 years for a presidents policy’s and decisions can truly be seen, statistically and just felt. Along with how another president’s decision can affect 1-2 of their predecessors.