🧩 BND Motif Index · M1442
Best president ever
A president is ranked the greatest the country has ever had, said as a settled verdict, his policies and his enemies' hatred offered as the proof: the mirror of Worst president ever.
🗣️ Arguments🗂️ Cult of personality🗂️ Best and worst ever
- 3claims filed under it
- 3left shows it came up on
- 4right shows it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
↔️ answers and mirrors:
- 🧩 Worst president ever counter pair: the same ranking, upside down
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Dear Leader 🧩 Greatest of all time
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (3 left-leaning, 0 center, 4 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- right-leaning
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “and these are CNN polls, people not exactly in love with me” “CNN did another poll at who was the most popular person in the history of the Republican Party, and I won that too” “he is the best president America has ever had... The policies that he does. Because people love him. The left hate him.” “I don't think there's ever been a president that was more clear on what he was going to do when he went to office and has been more consistent in doing it.” “We've achieved more in less than two years than any administration in American history”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 1
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-11-05 “Trump says CNN polls show him more popular among Republicans than Ronald Reagan or Abraham Lincoln.” 1
Told on the right 1
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-11-02 “Donald Trump is the best president America has ever had because of his policies.” 2
Told on both sides 1
claims heard on left- and right-leaning shows alike
- 2026-11-03 “Donald Trump has been more consistent and clear on his goals than any other president.” 4
M1442 · first seen 2026-11-02 · last 2026-11-11 · what this is · how the index works