“This is the worst president ever. He is the worst president in all of American history.”
About George W. Bush, said in Los Angeles while at a Society for Professional Journalism banquet event.
Published in an article by John Bogert in the Torrance, California Daily Breeze (19 January 2003).
According to Thomas this was supposed to be off the record. The reporter (assumedly Bogert) asked for her autograph after she spoke at the event. As she signed his copy of her book, he said to her, "You look sad?" She responded by saying "Well I am. I'm covering the worst president..."
Interview by Adam Holdorf for Real Change News, (18 March 2004).
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On Barack Obama during an interview with WJLA. http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/02/politics/donald-trump-obama-election-2016/ (August 2, 2016)
2010s, 2016, August
Variant: President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States!
“This is the worst president since Hermann Göring.”
Das ist der schlimmste Präsident seit Hermann Göring.
On President of German Parliament Wolfgang Thierse, according to DER SPIEGEL during lunch with colleagues (August 29, 2002)
Addressed to George W. Bush in "go home, gw" http://www.moby.com/journal/2006-09-10/go_home_gw.html, journal entry (10 September 2006) at moby.com
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), (July 28, 2016)
Remarks following the South Carolina Primary http://www.votesmart.org/speech_detail.php?sc_id=72173 (19 February 2000).
2000s
remarks made in February 2002, over the decision to deposit radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Las Vegas Sun http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2002/mar/05/political-rift-could-hurt-states-yucca-fight/, quoted March 5, 2002
“Lincoln was the only president in American history whose administration was bounded by war.”
James M. McPherson. Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief (2008) p. xiii
2000s
Now, that's where we are.
Coverage of Southern Republican Leadership Conference, CSPAN, 2010-04-08
2010-04-09
Gingrich: Obama is "the most radical president in American history"
Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201004090011
2011-03-30
2010s