A little of everything

• Nixon’s paranoia
• Clinton’s elastic concept of the truth
• Roosevelt’s high-handed drive to control everything
• Grant’s blind eye to crony corruption
• Lincoln’s carelessness about the Constitution
• Wilson’s sanctimony

and more, much more:

• Unparalleled lack of experience
• Unparalleled ability to anger our allies
• Unparalleled eagerness to pass the buck

Has there ever been such a president before? And he reads the teleprompter so well!

Of course Lincoln had the excuse of a civil war, and the various excesses were disposed of after the war. The comparison is grossly unfair to Lincoln, but he was the only example I could come up with. Better historians are welcome to add/modify the list.