Most ridiculed in history? Trump. Any scandal or even conspiracy about other presidents honestly pale in comparison to just 1 single Trump day. Its to the point where we dont even call them scandals anymore, its just another day with Trump in office.
The president I’m thinking of gets applause when he signs his name to something because people are so relieved he still remembers how.
Can you narrow it down a little?
It’s a coin flip between Reagan and Trump in their second terms.
Biden?
Has to be the current POTUS simply because there are more people with more access to more places to post ridicule. Add to that the whole marketing drive for ‘engagement’ (especially ragebait) and AI, and you end up with a volume of ridicule greater than ever before possible in human history. In the future, perhaps we can get the bots to shout at one another somewhere easy for humans to ignore.
I love how even though your answer is “this one”, it’s not based off of angry emotion with nothing else behind it. You make a logical point where it’s hard to make the argument for any other president. It also means future presidents will probably break the current levels as more efficient technologies emerge.
Notice, the question was NOT “Who’s the most ridiculed POTUS in history by humans?”. There’s a lot of wiggle room for still being correct while also artificially stacking the deck. There’s a little over 8 billion humans on earth. You could create 88 billion bots, and now you’d have the bots united message of ridicule heavily outweigh and thus manipulate the narrative to other real humans.
“President Tom Smith is absolutely HATED by everybody…everyone online is saying it. It must be true.”
And now suddenly a real human has made up their political views, based on one corporate entity shaping the online message. That’s why musk bought twitter. You can claim bluesky and mastodon exist, and they do, but in the mainstream they do not replace twitter. Twitter is still the dominant way for that microblog style communication. bluesky and mastodon combined don’t come near their real numbers of twitter.
But how much of modern day twitter is actual real humans? See where I’m going with this?
The thing with “this one” is he was president for 2 terms, unlike the previous one. The others before him in this millenium were a bit less off the rails, hence less ridicule.
Bots do sway the results towards every current president, but this one is a bit… Specific.
But whatever the next one may be, short of insane choices like Kim K, Elon, Kanye, MTG, etc. The ridicule will be much less than for Trump.
My exact thought. Obama caught hell, but there’s more of us now and more of us engaged, in both politics and social media.
I would say Trump. The problem is, ridiculous come from the Latin for laughable, and fascism is no laughing matter.
Next in line would be Dubya. He was a bit less fascist - although Gitmo detainees probably beg to disagree - but more amusing.
So I vote for Dubya, despite the fascism.
Don’t misunderestimate Dubya. Irregardless of his policies, he coined words and phrases like Shakespeare. How many of use of dreamed of human beings and fish coexisting peacefully? How many of us strive to put food on our families and buy most of our imports from overseas? Don’t we all want to know “is our children learning?” And who can forget that famous Texas proverb “fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can’t get fooled again.”
Mission accomplished!
Spoken like a true Merkin!
No one else turned our entire population into mindless pussy-wigs…and all with a single phrase!
My kid calls atomic things nukular. Mad shame. I’m a terrible parent.
To be fair, I’ve read that the Texas proverb bit was him cutting himself off mid sentence to prevent a sound bite of him saying “shame on me”. I have no idea of the veracity of the claim but it’s interesting if true.
You can see it in his eyes as he’s about to say it… both the inevitable use on the Daily Show and the desire to strangle his speechwriter.
Likely! Politicians will never say anything negative about themselves because it comes back to haunt them. Also why they never apologize or admit fault.
When I was a kid, I got a talking George Bush doll that said all the lines you mentioned above. It was great.
I’d love to see how it compares to that one president who was stuck in a bathtub. C’mon. How do you NOT ridicule that???
Oh, Taft.
In France we had this satirical TV show called Les Guignols de l’Info (the News Puppets) which was really active from 1990 to 2010.
They really liked to make fun of George W. Bush, portraying him as a huge idiot acting childishly, obeying capitalism and obsessed with war.
Here’s a compilation, It’s roughly translated but you can see what it looked like here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs5xDkPEpDY
lol, looks like spitting image
Herbert Hoover presided over the Great Depression (1929 to 1933). Mass homeless camps were called Hoovervilles. I’m betting he caught flack from everyone.
Do we even need to debate this?
45 > 47> someone else
My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes.
Can we define the word “ridiculed?”
Made fun of
Is “ridiculed” an ambiguous term?
I’ve never thought so. I mean, I guess it’s hard to quantify, but that’s different from being ambiguous. If someone asked you, “Who in your high school class did people make fun of the most,” you might know right away who it would be, or there might be multiple contenders. Other people in your class might have different opinions, but that doesn’t mean you all don’t know what the question is, just that it’s hard to measure.
I was using my question as a double entendre.
Silly me
It depends who does the ridiculing, in which time period and where they do that. In the last quarter century, in Europe, Dubya has been a grateful target, although Trump makes him look good.
Today I learned that POTUS stands for “President of the United States”, never knew that before.
See also: SCOTUS and FLOTUS. :) Haven’t seen the later in a long time though.
Florida of the United States
Dubya, fuck him to hell. Also got two shoes thrown at him by an Iraqi lmao
Washington
Six foot six, weighs a fucking ton.
It’s 6 foot 8 and he ate opponent’s brains and invented cocaine
He’ll save children, but not the British children.
He’ll save children, but not the British children.
He’ll save children, but not the British children.
Glad someone else remembers this!
not even counting Starbucks
Spread, spread Delaware
I still find it hilarious that about 15 years ago, the WWE introduced a new wrestling character. His name was “Abraham Washington”. A name that, yes, it is a combination of exactly the two names you think it is. So who did they get to play the role of Aberaham Washington? A black guy. He played the role of a TV talk show host, who legitimately got fired, and this is true, for going off script and saying “Titus O’Neil (A wrestler) is like Kobe Bryant at a hotel in Colorado - HE’S UNSTOPPABLE!” which referenced some 2003 legal issues Kobe had involving a sexual assault case.
Abraham Washington everybody!
What do you think?
I’m not that into historical politics nor am I even american
then why are you asking this inane circle jerkimg question? the answer is Trump and it’s not even close. and it’s kind of sour to be bringing this shit up while he is disappearing ppls loved ones in the streets daily.
after trump it’s dubya and after him it’s not even close, doesn’t matter. maybe asking who is third would be an interesting historical question but this just feels rude right now
Are you asking why I’m asking an inane question in the nostupidquestions community? Because that’s ironic. I know that I dont know, it would be arrogant of me to think I know the answer when I only really know a bit about the past 4 presidents.
You believe that me asking this question is negatively impacting Americans? I’ve been polite to everyone that has been pleasant and even those that haven’t been.
I don’t know who pissed in your cheerios today but maybe block this community and me if stupid questions make you that upset.
it’s a fucking tone-deaf circle jerk that reeks of 2016 when his election was just a big joke to everyone. people are fucking dying, asshole, real funny if they’re seppos though right
Yes I have clearly said that I find it funny that Trump is killing people. Definitely said that.
