You forgot Obama's biggest mistake which was not prosecuting the bankers and financial people responsible for the crash of 2008 and bailing them out with GW Bush. The lack of oversight created the Tea Party which in turn manifested in Donald Trump and the division we see today!
Mr. Beat: You should have spent more time talking about how horrible Don the Con Trump was. Twice impeached Trump was the worst US president in history for many reasons. #1) Trump committed an act of treason/sedition against the US by inciting a violent insurrection on January 6, 2021. #2) Trump’s incompetence regarding his management of the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic between January 2020 and July of 2020. Thousands of US citizens died as a result Trump’s failure. If Trump had a proper immediate response to the pandemic the way that the South Korean government did, then thousands of US citizens who died would still be alive today. #3) In April of 2019 Trump vetoed the resolution to end US military support of Saudi Arabia's GENOCIDE of thousands of innocent civilians in Yemen! Trump was using the US military to support GENOCIDE in Yemen! #4) Trump violated the Emoluments Clause of the US Constitution for his entire 4 years in office, then in 2019 Trump verbally mocked the US Constitution. The foundation of the USA is the US Constitution, that is why the presidential inaugural oath includes to swear to protect and defend the US Constitution. In January 2017 Trump publicly swore an oath on a bible at his inauguration ceremony to protect and defend the US Constitution. In 2019 Trump mocked the US Constitution by publicly saying the words "phony emoluments clause". #5) Trump misogynistically and adulterously said of women: "Grab them by the pussy."! Trump committed adultery with Stormy Daniels and then tried to cover it up. Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was in prison for crimes related to Trump's cover-up of his adulterous scandal with Stormy Daniels. Most Republicans claim to be the moral party and/or the majority Christian party, but hypocritically enthusiastically want to give an adulterous Donald Trump, another 4 years in office. If a US president who was a member of the Democratic Party did the terrible things Trump has, of course, the Republican Party leaders would be screaming for his removal from office. #6) Trump committed the crime of obstruction of justice. #7) Trump committed crimes of trying to tamper with elections, especially in Georgia. #8) Trump's attempted abuse of power regarding Ukraine. #9) Trump committed tax fraud in New York State, which why Trump hid his tax returns for years. #10) Trump practiced corrupt nepotism as he appointed unqualified members of his family into positions of power in the executive branch of government. #11) Trump illegally destroyed documents and illegally took documents with him after he left the office of president. There are many other horrible things about Trump. Here are some of them: Donald Trump is a dumb corrupt businessman which is why he hid his tax returns. Donald Trump is not a self-made man, he benefited from nepotism. His daddy Fred Trump gave him millions of dollars to start businesses many of which have failed! Donald Trump's failed businesses are many but include: Trump Airlines, a Trump Casino, and Trump University. With his failed Trump University, he defrauded hundreds of students. In Trump's many construction projects he failed to pay some of his contractors. Trump committed fraud with his non-profit in New York State which is why Trump recently transferred his residence to Florida. Donald Trump is too stupid to write his own book which why he hired a ghost writer to write "The Art of the Deal". When Trump was in high school, he hired another boy to take his SAT college entrance exam. Trump claims that he is smart, but he refuses to show us his college transcripts. Donald Trump's daddy bribed a physician to write that Donald Trump had bone spurs and therefore could dodge the Vietnam War draft. Donald Trump and his dad also practiced racism in who they would rent properties to in the 1960s and 1970s. That is just scratching the surface of the long list of horrible things about Donald Trump.
Obamas biggest mistake is allowing china to take over the south china sea. this set up the battleground for ww3 which the US may now lose because of obama
Interesting video. I may be wrong and you probably have more years teaching than I. But as I understand it, William Henry Harrison gave the longest inaugural speech in history in the pouring rain, thus dying from pneumonia not from drinking DC water. I thought Taylor died from cholera from drinking milk on a hot 4th of July day. Perhaps my teachers back in the day, taught me wrong info.
On that point, the secret service greatest mistake is not having agents stationed in buildings along the route. If a few had been in the book depository, they could’ve caught Oswald before he started shooting
I greatly appreciate that these mistakes are ranked by how much harm to how many people they caused, instead of how much personal political damage they caused.
Yup, the fact that he said the Afghanistan withdrawal was worse to Americans that Bidens inflation act is ridiculous. The middle class is being destroyed and the poor r getting poorer while the rich r getting super rich from pandemics and wars. Biden and Ukraine is a huge bluder too. Why are we spending trillions to try and start WW3? There's no outcome where Russia loses and DOESN'T resort to tactical nuclear weapons. Russia isn't boy scouts, if Truman dropped a bomb than Putin won't hesitate before he's defeated. Just like Kim jongs sorry ass. All these "world leaders" are world class crooks. Corrupt.
@@willpomeroy7711 our highest elected representative has a duty and a responsibility to ensure the wellbeing of our nation's peoples. I'm sorry you cannot see a learning opportunity from this retrospective of our leaders careers.
@@johnjones3813 objectively yes, not perfect but the best in the world. The UK is in shambles, France is having its second French Revolution. Russia is having its another Stalin. The US isn’t perfect. Even in your comment you didn’t mention it being perfect. But it’s the closest thing, maybe not forever but right now it’s all we have.
@@johnjones3813 Funnily enough though India could’ve potentially rivaled the US if it wasn’t for the UK stealing everything from them, the US have committed atrocities but what about the UK increasing the homelessness rate in India into the 50% range or Germany killing millions of Jews, Japans Rape of Nanking in WW2 all these countries are patriotic, because despite a countries flaws you can still feel pride for it.
I feel like a lot of the early slave holding presidents were like... "We need to end the scourge of slavery... Not me though. I'm busy. Someone will probably do it sooner or later though"
So true. The first half of the 19th century was presidents being too scared to tackle the horror that was slavery until it got to a breaking point of the civil war.
A lot of abolitionists at the time thought that slavery would just die out naturally if they restricted it. They might have been right if the resulting policies didn't cause tensions that blew up into a civil war. Also the cotton gin happened.
It’s crazy how a lot of these same laws and issues are constantly repeating themselves in different eras. Just goes to show how much we haven’t learned when it comes to our mistakes.
I believe those errors were a building of a foundation of rottenness, which under puppet Biden is becoming a full bldg into which the new oligarchy are quietly occupying - Herr Klaus Schwab, his Davos Wehrmacht and multi-billionaires, this is what Elon Musk is trying to expose, but MUST be circumspect.
I believe king Solomon said "there is nothing new under the sun." Also a great look at why we cannot move past our mistakes from the past without teaching about them in great depth. We put people in concentration camps because they sorta kinda looked like people who attacked one of our territories that we shouldn't have been in anyway. Not to mention all the coups we've staged, then the coups to take out the dictators we put in place etc. You get the point lol
Money has a lot to do with it, as always.. But just as big a cause is that we don't teach factual history. If you don't learn from your or others' mistakes, you'll be likely to repeat them. Whitewashing history, banning books, omitting massive chunks, to deliberately create a demographic that won't know they're supporting a neo-Hitler until it's too late.. And those of us that DO know what's happening won't have enough numbers or power to do anything about it because we've allowed the militarization of the police .. Police controlled by the wealthy and politicians who are, by definition, the enemy in such circumstances.
Thank you for acknowledging the Philippine-American war, Mr. Beat. As a Filipino on the way to becoming an American, I find that not many Americans are familiar of this. Actually, not many Americans are not familiar of the Filipino involvement of fighting with the Americans in WW2 either and the WW2 aide by the Americans sort of washed over the atrocities of the Philippine-American war. Really refreshing to hear a history TH-camr talk about this.
I'm embarrassed to admit I've never even heard of this war until now and I'm in my mid-forties. So thank you to both of you for creating some awareness of it
@@iammrbeat HELL YES! The history of the Philippines as a pseudo colony of the US is so dark and unexplored, to this day I think the affects are felt by the Filipino people
@@theoneandonlyguyallikian1190 Please don't be. I am not that familiar of American history and geography myself so I am doing my best to catch up. In fact, not a lot of Filipinos are familiar of this either. Actually, William McKinley, who was president at the time, wasn't familiar with what's going on in the Philippines. Although I must admit that I did take Economics as an elective in university over US History lol if I had only known then I should've taken it lmao
@@Secarstra777 Ah, yes. Many people are not familiar of this either. This is probably the reason why the Philippines has a specific liking to the United States and at one time pushed to be a US territory because of our fondness for the Americans during the American occupation and post-WW2. I would go as far to saying that the Americans are the only colonialists that Filipinos are generally enamoured with as we don't really feel this way towards Britain or Spain. Just to add a little note, the reason why the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Philippines shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in WW2 is that the Philippines is a strategic stronghold of the Americans in South East Asia, as the Americans have built bases in the Philippines used during WW2 and Korean and Vietnam wars. And, of course, a major refueling station as well. In fact, the most considerable largest naval battle of all time happened during WW2 in the Philippines called the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
You're entitled to your opinion, and I was familiar with James W Louwen criticising him earlier, but either actively or not attempting, I can't see any earlier presidents as being much worse or better.
The more I thought about your take on Nixon's biggest mistake, the more I found myself agreeing. The War on Drugs has had a much longer impact, whereas Watergate is mostly known as a scandal at it's time and sort of stayed in the past. It has significant historical meaning, no doubt.
Watergate may have stayed in the past in the sense that people may not think about it all the time but I think it still had huge lasting impact on American’s trust of their own government.
Hell, the Nixon one is why Reaganomics isn't the worst part of Reagan's administration. Greatly increasing privatized prisons was. It's also why that godawful Clinton-era crime bill got passed.
I would argue the Cambodian bombing was worse. Not only did it drag another country into the Vietnam war, killing innocent civilians. But it also lead to the rise of the Khmer Rouge, which enacted the Cambodian genocide killing 20% of the population of Cambodia. That seems much worse to me than a bunch of people being thrown in prison. (Although the war on drugs was extremely bad).
Twice impeached Trump was the worst US president in history for many reasons. #1) Trump committed an act of treason against the US by inciting a violent insurrection on January 6, 2021. #2) Trump’s incompetence regarding his management of the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic between January 2020 and July of 2020. Thousands of US citizens died as a result Trump’s failure. If Trump had a proper immediate response to the pandemic the way that the South Korean government did, then thousands of US citizens who died would still be alive today. #3) In April of 2019 Trump vetoed the resolution to end US military support of Saudi Arabia's GENOCIDE of thousands of innocent civilians in Yemen! Trump was using the US military to support GENOCIDE in Yemen! #4) Trump violated the Emoluments Clause of the US Constitution for his entire 4 years in office, then in 2019 Trump verbally mocked the US Constitution. The foundation of the USA is the US Constitution, that is why the presidential inaugural oath includes to swear to protect and defend the US Constitution. In January 2017 Trump publicly swore an oath on a bible at his inauguration ceremony to protect and defend the US Constitution. In 2019 Trump mocked the US Constitution by publicly saying the words "phony emoluments clause". #5) Trump misogynistically and adulterously said of women: "Grab them by the pussy."! Trump committed adultery with Stormy Daniels and then tried to cover it up. Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was in prison for crimes related to Trump's cover-up of his adulterous scandal with Stormy Daniels. Most Republicans claim to be the moral party and/or the majority Christian party, but hypocritically enthusiastically want to give an adulterous Donald Trump, another 4 years in office. If a US president who was a member of the Democratic Party did the terrible things Trump has, of course, the Republican Party leaders would be screaming for his removal from office. #6) Trump committed the crime of obstruction of justice. #7) Trump committed crimes of trying to tamper with elections, especially in Georgia. #8) Trump's attempted abuse of power regarding Ukraine. #9) Trump committed tax fraud in New York State, which why Trump hid his tax returns for years. #10) Trump practiced corrupt nepotism as he appointed unqualified members of his family into positions of power in the executive branch of government. #11) Trump illegally destroyed documents and illegally took documents with him after he left the office of president. There are many other horrible things about Trump. Here are some of them: Donald Trump is a dumb corrupt businessman which is why he hid his tax returns. Donald Trump is not a self-made man, he benefited from nepotism. His daddy Fred Trump gave him millions of dollars to start businesses many of which have failed! Donald Trump's failed businesses are many but include: Trump Airlines, a Trump Casino, and Trump University. With his failed Trump University, he defrauded hundreds of students. In Trump's many construction projects he failed to pay some of his contractors. Trump committed fraud with his non-profit in New York State which is why Trump recently transferred his residence to Florida. Donald Trump is too stupid to write his own book which why he hired a ghost writer to write "The Art of the Deal". When Trump was in high school, he hired another boy to take his SAT college entrance exam. Trump claims that he is smart, but he refuses to show us his college transcripts. Donald Trump's daddy bribed a physician to write that Donald Trump had bone spurs and therefore could dodge the Vietnam War draft. Donald Trump and his dad also practiced racism in who they would rent properties to in the 1960s and 1970s. That is just scratching the surface of the long list of horrible things about Donald Trump.
bad disgusting water, I guess. The schools I went to never went into full disclosure about that sorta thing. Apparently, truly patriotic parents value lower taxes over their own children's futures.
@@theosteven3362 he is talking about the Israeli civilians waiting to illegally resettle Gaza not the military. The Biden administration actually place sanctions on the settlers before removing them at some point this year. Google: Illegal Israeli settlers or Biden Sanctions settlers. There was a lawsuit attempting to remove said sanctions on questionable reasoning in February but I’m not sure how far it got given those sanctions have removed.
It's rather hilarious how Harrison's greatest mistake, drinking a cup of water, meant that he could be, arguably, one of the least destructive US presidents. You know, 'cause he was only in the White House for 1 month.
If you're a pessimist, Harrison was the least worst president since he had the fewest failures and scandals. If you're an optimist, he was the worst president since he had the fewest accomplishments.
@@MistyKathrineIf you really want to be a pessimist since I refuse to believe presidencies of people like Lincoln were “bad” in the sense they were net negatives for the nation. Keeping the country together gets you into positives no matter what you do after it.
@@Ballin4Vengeance Pessimist view = rating presidents primarily on their failures and scandals. Optimistic view = rating presidents primarily on their the achievements and successes. Most rankings put Harrison as a bottom 5 president and I feel like that's unfair for a guy who didn't really do anything bad. I think he should be ranked as 23rd out of 45, in the dead center of the list because while he had the fewest accomplishments, he also had the fewest failures.
@@MistyKathrine he shouldn't be included in the lists at all. He was only in office for one month and most of it he was bed bound. If he has to go in the list he should be number 45 at the very bottom because he literally did nothing. I mean sure it's unfortunate for him he died so early into his term but that's the cold hard facts. He did nothing as president.
Sustaining a rich & powerful nation such as the US requires blood and sacrifice, you have to be destructive for it to be successful. Not saying it's all evil, just that it's reality.
I remember hearing a story about some great-grandfather of mine that hated James Buchanan and his decisions, so in retaliation he planted explosives around several military bunkers and blew them up. I don't know the historical accuracy of this story, but it is interesting nonetheless.
@@flickcentergaming680 It sounds like the sort of thing that would be rather easy to verify, even for that era, right? People would talk about that sort of thing
I still say the Trail of Tears was Jackson’s worst action because not only did it hurt tens of thousands of people (many of whom died on the journey) but he defied SCOTUS to do so.
I strongly loathe that man, but his energy was definitely something else. Asking the judiciary branch how they were going to do the executive branches job of enforcing the law was a power move
@@wehweh3 On top of that, he was the most radically pro-slavery president ever. To the point that he once said that all the abolitionists who sent their literature into the south to try and change minds should commit suicide.
Reagan's abysmal response to the AIDS epidemic should been an honorable mention. Edit: edited the proper noun from Regan to Raegan...so stop the snarky comments. Bottomline is, he was pretty awful.
@@lizwohl4765 yeah. Idk if it was to kill the African population or the LGBT population or both but Reagans and the conservatives as a whole killed them and are burning in hell
@@lizwohl4765 yeah. Idk if it was to kill the African population or the LGBT population or both but Reagans and the conservatives as a whole killed them and are burning in hell
My father was a victim of the war on drugs. He died in prison and robbed me of my dad at the age of 11. I didn't feel his death when I was young, since he didn't live with me and I didn't know what I was missing, but I feel his death now as an adult. Saddens me how his life was not treated as valuable. He was just locked away, when he needed help, and left to die.
@@CBell123what gets us into the situation where he's Mexican? You want him to keep his middle and last name, so start from there, and I will determine whether or not his name would be Juan
Arguably, Ike’s overthrowing of the Iranian government is probably the worst thing a popular president has ever done (in terms of long-term effects on world peace)
@@NavelOrangeGazer ike warned us of the military industrial complex because as the president and a 5 star general, he was seemingly powerless against it. Had he stood in the way, someone would have gotten him. Just like patton and the Kennedys
I came across this video while mindlessly scrolling TH-cam half-asleep and somehow misread it as “every president’s biggest milkshake”. Had me thinking for a split second that there’s some sort of presidential tradition I don’t know about and that this is a really niche video topic.
Great video, a lot of my guesses came up, and there were quite a few surprises that I learned about. I think it goes without saying that your research and ability to remain relatively unbiased is admirable, but I think an underappreciated aspect of your videos is simply your presentation of these facts. Feels like a lot of history channels I watch kinda just read their script with no emotion, and make it easy to zone out on. But you're consistently keeping your inflection light and fun, making jokes, and it feels more conversational. It's the little things! Keep up the great work Mr. Beat.
UNCLE DANE OMG LOL, I was not expecting you to be on this video. I do agree with what your comment has to say, as I am a huge history nerd, and the main reason why I even watch Mr Beat.
*Almost ever US president:* _I am against slavery, segregation & impleading the freedom of speech / expression._ *Also said US presidents:* *_Signs a policy that makes slavery, segregation & impleading the freedom of speech / expression easier._*
Now do every other country in the world. Take off the hair shirt man.... it's tacky. This AWFL & AWEML (adult female white liberal/adult white effeminate male liberal) penchant for self flagellation, you do realize you're the only demographic in the world that does that? And if you're thinking that makes you look virtuous, think again. Chinese call you a "baizuo." Trust me that ain't a compliment. Everybody else on the globe just rolls their eyes at you. I mean that quite literally by the way. They surveyed the entire world, there is not a single demographic besides awfuls and awemulls who isn't in group biased. What a sick pathology. By the way anybody standards reading you're welcome for AWEML. I felt like that needed to exist next to AWFL.
Here's another fun fact: they polled zoomers, and like 77% of them thought that Indians lived in peace and harmony with the land before the white man got here. God I'm laughing so hard I can't even voice text dictate. Even now it's like the third time I've talked about it. The average native American tribe practiced a casual sort of genocide on its neighbors and was extremely enthusiastic about taking slaves. There were exceptions but they were definitely a minority. Casual genocide & slavetaking had I rather serious enhancing effect on that. More dumb fun with baizuos.
Well when it comes to the first seven Presidents or so, they actually made slavery much harder, like banning it in the Northwest territory, banning the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, etc. But they never went so far as to outright ban it because they thought it would go away on it's own, and banning it outright would just cause unnecessary bloodshed. Obviously they were wrong, and slavery ended up actually becoming bigger in the future, but they had good intentions. Some of them were hypocrites though, owning their own slaves despite being against slavery.
It was about the culture at the time, the leaders were trying to delay a civil war which was bound to happen at some point. No president could magically erase the practice of slavery.
Biggest mistakes for presidents: William H Harrison: "Beautiful day, i dont need a coat" Lincoln: "Lets go see a play" Garfield: "Lets take a train" McKinley: "Lets go to the fair" Kennedy: "Lets go for a ride. I need to clear my head"
100% His attitude toward it was definitely part of what contributed to many conservatives thinking that gay men were getting what they deserved for being gay. And it was even worse when he only started to care at all when Rock Hudson revealed he also had HIV.
I haven't watched the video yet, but defanging antitrust and allowing all sorts of corrupt monopolistic mergers, setting that precedent was very easily Reagan's worst move. It's not even close. It has a massive effect on every American to this day and will for very long time. It's arguably almost as bad as Clinton and glass-steagall. And to be quite clear Clinton is the worst president of the last handful. Or more. Easily. And that includes young bush and the current traitorous clown. That's how bad killing glass-steagall was. It very directly precipitated the 2008 Great recession, and it has ongoing horrific effects. Reagan's AIDS response was pretty bad, but it was sort of a trump level covid bad. In a different way though. I think Trump was actually trying to do the right thing he just failed hard trusting fauci and Pfizer & the WHO. He had a lot of company though, everyone but Sweden drastically mismanaged the crisis. Aside from Trump's continuous spew of clinical narcissism, he really wasn't that bad a president for the most part. He didn't make a lot of mistakes besides allowing lockdowns and pushing the Pfizer poison. My theory of presidents these days is that their adequacy or inadequacy is mostly determined by what they don't do. By mistakes they don't make. Biden got in the office and immediately made 10 horrific errors. Errors or purposeful evils I'm not quite sure which. Trump mostly stayed out the economy and energy's way. You can't really expect too much more from a president these days. Sad but true.
It was extremely not simple back then@@cardboard9124 . It was an apocalypse for some demographics (promiscuous gay males for the most part, also many africans.)
What exactly could Ronald Reagan have done? Imprison every suspected homosexual in the country and prevent them from having sex? When Reagan was in office the majority opinion was that it was a 'gay disease'
One of our country's most arrogant leaders (academic - so what's new), he forced through the change is status of gov't few know about (what else is new about a Dem). He changed the status of Senators, they were supposed to be appointed by states, - Like the house of Lords in England. They were to be the voice of the interests of the state. He made them like the House and thus removed barriers to his implementing his ideas.
This really puts American leadership into prospective as it appears nearly all our Presidents were more terrible than any of us really know. People often look at the most recent ones because that is what they're experienced in their lifetime but the earlier ones were far worse in many ways.
Lol you’re lucky you live in a country with free press because I guarantee you every leader ever has made mistakes and most of them you don’t know about
As an independent I honestly don’t think anyone was ever worse than Biden currently is, could be recency bias like you said but dude can’t form a sentence and tanked the economy
One could look at it that way for sure. However, I think there is way more to it than that. When you do many things you are bound to mess up some of them. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices.
@@ivanredinger969 - "Sometimes you have to make sacrifices." Especially in a country that often tears each other apart about which political party they are. If you please one, you risk ticking off the other.
Just started watching but wanted to say your channel has always been a great source of non-toxic political education. People these days underestimate the impact of emotional framing in content/online in general ❤❤❤
I think the 2 biggest mistakes by any given U.S. president are (and this is just in general): 1. Not learning from the past mistakes made by world leaders in history 2. Not putting the best interest of the American people 1st, but rather prioritizing their own self interests, their party's agendas, and most of all the interests of lobbyists and special interest groups
The problem with your second suggestion, is thinking that the "American people" is a single entity where they have a "best interest". Any action taken by a president will affect some Americans in a positive way and others in a negative way
@@AdventVFX At the time, the victims of slavery were not deemed to be American people, so supporting the decision of slavery was not going against the American people. Furthermore, going with the agenda of the American people is not always a good thing case in point slavery. Supporting slavery was a bad decision because it is a grand violation of morality, not because it goes against the agenda of the American people.
An excellent example of number two is the biggest mistake Clinton actually made: killing the glass_steagalll act. Clinton was wall street's little bitch boy, and this led very directly to the Great recession of 2008 and almost every other financial problem we have is interwoven. Too big to fail, Clinton made that. This is why he's the worst President anyone alive can remember. Worse than the young bush. Worse than Biden who blew Carter's inflation record out of the water (presuming you calculate inflation in an honest way like under Carter. Back then they used to include pittences like energy and gas and food. Now the quote unquote basket of goods is half stuff that goes down like TVs and not so much with the food and energy and housing.) Before you vote biden consider by any honest reckoning we've had 25% inflation followed by 13% inflation then compounded. 13% of 25 is around 3. So under Biden we've had 41% inflation which is basically a 41% tax on anyone who spends almost everything they make, ie the poor. He's a real man of the people. "Come on man! use my basket of inflation!" No thanks Joe. I'll even vote for Trump over your incompetent ass.
Obama's biggest mistake was to leave his presidency with records left behind that proved he was apprised of the Russian collusion hoax perpetrated by Hillary Clinton on August 3, 2016. He could have saved himself of being found complicit in the crime if only he would have informed the public of it being a hoax and took steps to insure the FBI would not run with it, but he didn't. He let it become a major political issue. Obama deserves to be charged in the conspiracy to frame Trump with false allegations of Russian collusion, along with Hillary Clinton and several members of the FBI. Oh, Joe Biden was in the room when Obama was apprised of it being a hoax, as was James Comey, James Clapper, John Brennan and Loretta Lynch. All deserve to be charged accordingly.
Mr. Beat! You're my post, B.A. degree professor! I majored in Poli Sci, but I forgot a lot of what I learned. You give me a refresher about what I learned at university. I appreciate you! Thank you! I'm getting a job as a substitute teacher soon, and I want to be able to help U.S. government students (should I sub that subject) with their work!..... Fun fact about me: my U.S. government teacher inspired me to major in political science. My government teacher went on to run for office, and I voted for him as an absentee voter whilst I served in the Marines. Oorah! Teachers have a large influence on a student's 😂life. Keep it up, Mr. Beat!
as a brazilian I've never known much about American presidents (and never thought I even would) but your videos are very interesting and turns out American history isn't as boring as it seems to be... the perfect balance between educational, well made and your sarcastic sense of humor makes your videos stand out love from 🇧🇷
American history and history in general for that matter has always intrigued me, but learning the dark side of American history is truly fascinating, because you expect some bad things but once you dive in the US has done some truly reprehensible actions.
I think the doctrinal nature of required American history classes in the US, public school grades 5, 8, and 11, are part of what has always driven me to learn about the many dark secrets that were withheld.
In my opinion, you have to give a President 20 years after his term is over to truly assess it. What might seem like a mistake by W. Bush, Obama, or Trump might not seem a big deal compared to another mistake made.
George bush and Obama were funded by crime syndicates. Trump is corrupt but please do some research he is not what the media says he is. The media has ruined a great opportunity of coming together over a very middle of the ground president.
@@throatwobblermangrove8510 A great example is Truman. Today many historians consider him a better President than he was thought of while he was living (died around 1971 or so). I’m so/so on his legacy myself. While I think he made the correct decision in ending World War II quickly, some of his Cold War policies led to the Korean War and Vietnam War.
*These historical mistakes truly show the enormous weight of being the head of the US government. Every action is written down. Great analysis Mr Beat!*
I really enjoyed this video but I have to say that Ronald Reagan's biggest mistake was not retaliating against Iran in 1983 when Iran supported financed the suicide attack on the Marines on October 24th 1983 that led to the death of 241 Marines. A little shadowy group known as Islamic jihad or later on will be changed to Hezbollah Funded by Iran would never be punished. That was one incident that led to Osama bin Laden later saying America was a paper tiger
Thank you for mentioning the war on drugs, that has been possibly one of the most detrimental mistakes in terms of cost and impact imo. The amount of misinformation that has been spread about drugs and drug use because of it has been insane, and I'd say it has set us back decades in mental health research and policy.
so basically people hitting rock bottom with hard drugs and messing up their lives and not to mention, messing up other people around them's lives is something you want to see?
While I don’t particularly like Trump I must disagree with you on the 2020 election especially now that the 2024 election has concluded with all states accounted for. If you look at charts from 2011, 2016, 2020, and now 2024 there were around 20 million more votes counted in the 2020 election than in all of the other elections including 2016 which saw record high voter turnout. That paired with the video footage I and millions of other Americans saw on more conservative media sites of pollers pulling out massive boxes out from under tables on election night of 2020 during late night shift changes in Pennsylvania, (which also saw an abnormally high ballot rate) would lead the average person to reasonably suspect some type of foul play; to which the burden of proof to show the election was fair and free falls on the government. I as well as millions of other Americans felt the “investigation” that was done was half hearted at best, especially when you compare it to all the investigations and man power the government put into the Trump trials. I’d argue that the possibility of election fraud is as big if not bigger than the question of how Trump paid people off. All this to say that election fraud couldn’t be ruled out and I’m not even a Trumper. Now my alternative to your choice would be how Trump handled the COVID situation towards the end of his presidency. He and his administration were the ones who were responsible for the calling of lockdowns, and that precedent allowed for the states to “kinda run with it”. That paired with the fact that his administration was not adequately prepared for the health crisis because they had moved money elsewhere, compounded the severity of the outbreak initially leading to longer lockdowns and the mandate of masks in public places; even after it was found that the efficacy of masks were almost nonexistent unless it was you who were sick and even then the cheap cloth masks that everyone wore couldn’t even stop sneeze droplets. By then end of Trumps first term almost 351,000 Americans died of Covid and though there were a few things out of Trumps control, his slow and inadequate reaction compounded and lead to those deaths as well as set into motion more deaths that followed into Biden term. Though Biden’s handling of the Covid crisis is whole other topic. And this doesn’t even touch on the mental health crisis we had because of the lockdowns. Excuse my run on sentences and grammatical errors. Writing a comment like this on a phone is not very easy.
I come from a Panamanian family and Manuel Noriega was a monster. My older relatives remembered the horror of martial law and were more than happy to be rid of him. I wouldn't classify "Operation Just Cause" as a mistake at all. It's one of the few things that the US did that actually helped Latin America.
I agree! I evn remember at the time how some Liberals were even proud of what the country had done, it really did deserve the name "Just Cause" -- a wonderful yet extremely rare example of our armed forces being used to restore the democratically elected legitimate ruler to the people -- instead of deposing the legitimate rule like we did in so many other countries!
I hate us interventionism with passion, 99% of the time is immoral imperialism to bully countries and peoples for their one-sided economic and political unjust gains, but getting rid of Noriega is the exception that makes the rule. Two very important things should be added though: 1) When it comes to bringing Ortega's dictatorship to the edge, credit and glory must be given to Hugo Spadafora. Indeed, the military invasion only happened right after he was assassinated. A one-in-a-trillion history changing hero. 2) The US has a lot to blame for Noriega's dictatorship to have ever been in place in the first place. It is no secret that pretty much all dictatorships in Latin America and the Caribbean were either put there or strongly supported by the US, especially after what happened in Cuba and later Nicaragua. Same applies in Panama. They propped up Noriega and have blood in their hands. It is a good thing Just Cause happened but the decades if horror could instead have been avoided.
He was a monster and we (the US) put him in charge. This is so common that one could argue putting the very worst dictators in charge of nice places (especially those countries in "our hemisphere") is our government's main hobby.
I mean, as people have said before, operation just cause was not a mistake, but all the movements done by the US that helped him get into power were surely a mistake
It's a vaguely sickening comfort knowing the world has always been like this, but damned is it frustrating. Disillusionment is a bitch, but a necessary reality check all the same. Thank you for a great video, sir 🙏
not always. just since the invention of agriculture about 12,000 yrs ago. Anatomically modern humans lived in small egalitarian (even inclusive of women and children) bands of hunter gatherers without property or hierachy for 150,000 yrs.
I would have also talked about the aids crisis with Reagan. While Reaganomics certainly impacted more people overall, I feel like the aids crisis was bad enough to have been a dishonorable mention
Good point, but trickle down economics was and still is terrible!!! He should have used this word to describe it, but he did not. The Republican party is still hung up on this. They still want to give tax cuts to the rich ad nauseum!!!
There are so many truly awful things to choose from that picking just one as The Worst is really impossible. Shredding The Constitution, especially the 4th amendment, to rationalize creating the domestic police state is another strong candidate for The Worst. Mr. Beat also gave Bush 41 a pass on his many crimes.
Regarding your pick for Washington, I agree that it would’ve been noble had he set an example and freed his slaves, but I don’t think it would’ve had the effect on the rest of the country. Most southern farmers, even despite Washington being a unifying figure, likely would’ve disregarded it since their economy still relied on slave labor. Obviously not to defend it, but to put it into perspective. Great video as always, Mr. Beat!!
@@iammrbeat I do kinda wonder if Washington had been more vocal about slavery how much of an effect it would have. You said that he warned against political parties citing it would divide the nation, but we kept them anyway. I wonder why?
@@alex_flamer Tribalism is why. There's a natural desire in most people to side with a team. As for the slavery thing, Washington could have been as vocal about ending it as he wanted, it still wouldn't change the minds of those relying on slave labor to hold up their economy.
@@switchp8286 but it wasn’t tribalism. It was literally the rich people’s greed. But it is funny how y’all use tribalism as a scapegoat. Even the tribes in Africa didn’t treat their slaves as harshly as the Europeans/Asians(this include Arabs and you decide whatever continent they are on)
I think it's easy for many people to mistakenly view Washington as an omnipotent force who could compel anyone around him to agree on the right decision for any issue, even slavery. That's the cost of idolizing him as the "perfect" founding father.
I think a lot of presidents' biggest mistakes were things that took so long to see the consequences of that someone else got the blame, especially if it had to do with foreign policy or something else boring that most voters don't pay attention to.
Yes, some people still think that Reagan was a great president who really helped the economy, when in retrospect his administration did so much to hurt so many people. We had to wait to realize that the trickle down was miniscule. We'll have to wait to see all the good results from the Biden administration, but some people just don't understand the concept of time, and the ship of state doesn't turn on a dime.
Yeah that definitely adds up. Wasn’t the bay of pigs invasion basically entirely planned before Kennedy was elected, and the major decision he mad towards it was actually to decrease direct involvement with it?
Mr beat is probably one of the most educated ppl on TH-cam.....you can learn alot from someone that tells you good and bad things from both sides and not just one.....imho of course.
Yea when it comes to American history and politics he’s definitely my go to. I disagree with him on a lot of issues but he’s very objective which I like.
@@waynejohnson1786 I'm wondering what it's saying about a person understands the source of information as being objective but then also in the same sentence says how often they are in disagreement with that objective source. Hey bro, at least I appreciate the honesty.
@Andrew_koala OH SHIT man you are absolutely right, I don't know how I could possibly have forgotten that pointing out a typo in a sentence on a youtube comment once is exactly the same as having any sort of valid counter argument. Damn, I always seem to forget that, it's like, why would anyone ever even bother to come up with something interesting or insightful to add to anything, that's for morons. It's just so much easier to find some sort of completely inconsequential detail and instead point it out using pseudo intellectual ramblings in a desperate effort to present yourself as being mommy's very smart young man. She's so proud of you by the way. It's just so obvious to me now, accidentally not hitting the spacebar in a sentence on a youtube comment that one time is just proof that I need to read more books. I hope one day I'll be as smart as you clearly are. I'll start looking for typos in all the ideas that I don't like because I'm clearly too much of a brain dead moron to think of anything else. Thanks friend, through your superior intellect and vast reasoning skills I've learned that one day, if perhaps I starve my brain stem of oxygen for a sufficient amount of time, I'll enter a vegetative state being kept alive by machines and hoses and then I will truly be on my journey to have the same level of cognitive function as you clearly do.
Learned about your channel because of Chris from Vlogging through History and wow, I'm addicted to your channel also now. Love all your material on Presidents which seems to be a lot of your stuff. Can't wait to binge all of it! Thanks for keeping me interested in learning.
I remember growing up as a kid and how the idea of wanting to be the president was fun. As an adult, I realize now how you must prepare for the inevitable, where you figuratively have blood on your hands or impact the lives of so many human beings.
it seems the president only seems to exist as a PR scapegoat for the rest of the deep state to hide behind while not really having that much say in how things are run.
I can’t wait to watch this when I have time to settle down and relax!!! I loved your biggest presidential accomplishments video and was hoping you’d make another video on their biggest mistakes. Also wanna thank you for these videos Mr. Beat. I’ve been watching them for quite some time now and your videos have reignited my interest in American politics. Your Supreme Court Briefs series also truly inspired me to study law and politics. I actually just switched my major from biology to political science because of my newfound interest. Thanks Mr. Beat :)
Holy moly! This amazes me. I am honored and filled with joy after reading this. Thanks for sharing this, and good luck to you in your newfound field of study. You're gonna love it!
Major props for calling out Nixon on the “war” on drugs. I didn’t expect that. It is one of the biggest wastes of human lives and money in American history. The moralism over drug use is hardcore hypocrisy and has no place in our legal system.
Nixons biggest mistake is making friends with a pedopphile who likes 14 year old girls as a 68 year old man who was responsible of 50-60 million people deaths and helping the korean and vietnam wars sacrificing military soldiers unnecessarily. Mao is the worst dictator in human recorded history.
Although Nixon is seen as a centrist, the culture wars he started helped Reagan and Gingrich build today's pseudo-conservative "Own the libs" Republican machine . . . all as a result of one man's obsession with the presidency 😭
a "war on drugs" isn't exactly bad and is good when done right. The problem with Nixon's war is that he basically targeted drugs that weren't really all that bad. If he concentrated more on the real dangerous ones like cocaine, heroin and the other super shhtty ones and then make weed and shrooms as "controlled" products meaning they're legal but just controlled properly and only be sold by real professionals like doctors then it would have been all right
@@dickmelsonlupot7697 The war on drugs was and is primarily waged against users. Locking people up, that is punishing people, for using drugs is fundamentally ridiculous, counterproductive, and cruel. Drug use is not a moral or criminal failing, it is a mental health issue. Our “criminal justice” system is rooted in centuries-old English law which is wholly unequipped to ethically or effectively deal with drugs or any other “antisocial” behavior rooted in mental health or poverty. In 500 years, the criminal justice system of today will be looked at as little more sensible than the trials by ordeal of the Middle Ages.
Clinton has also apologized for signing the Defense of Marriage Act, the anti-gay marriage bill, which it doesn't seem like he ever believed in and did simply to signal to voters he was "moderate" on social issues.
I didn't know this! And thanks for bringing that horrible law up, too, J.J. That should have been another honorable mention. Dang, Clinton really signed some bad laws. lol
@@iammrbeatyeah, Clinton really did, but I don’t think he ever did it because he wanted to, but to appeal to republicans since they took over congress. Kind of like Obama during his later years of presidency. Both had to keep the country moving I suppose.
@@nprnilk Clinton played politics very cynically at times. If he thought he could get benefit by throwing some group under the bus he would. If he thought he could get benefit by promoting the interests of that group, he would. Clinton appointed several openly gay people to his administration, which was historic, but then also pandered to homophobia when that was the way the winds were blowing.
If I remember correctly, he signed it in order to shut down the ravening of Congressional bigots for as long as he could, because they insisted on having something and what they really wanted would have been worse. Same reason why he signed Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
@@JJMcCullough Politics are very cynical. He was a pure political animal once the congress switched in 94 to Gingrich he had to play 3 dimensional chess. Do you have any idea the scope and magnitude of what was hunting for him every day? They had a special prosecutor with absolutely no boundaries trying to dig up illegal activities nearly his entire time in office. First it was travel gate, then whitewater for 7 years - Trump says witchhunt - he had nothing like Clinton and let's be clear in Trumps case there is criminal activity, obstruction at almost every turn.
He may miss some stuff, and the humor is a bit corny - but I can truly appreciate the objective approach he has with these videos - especially in such a polarized, partisan time/status quo that we live in
Hes Def not Objective 100% of the time, when it comes to modern politics his bias torwards the left comes through more and more. Im sure as we gain distance he will become more objective on current issues in the future
@cirrus1682 exactly what I was going to say, there were so many mistakes that were just immigration reform acts and he made it seem like that is the most evil thing in the world.
Regarding Vietnam, I’ve read that distrust in government started heavily at this point and has never been right since then. I didn’t realize until a few years ago how damaging Vietnam was for the US in terms of trust in government and what not.
It made your closest friends and allies cringe at being a NATO partner, trade partner..etc. The Good 1st world does not have the resources to stop America's once in every generation .. war on some 3rd world people with just awful optics.. optics of real atrocities. We friends want to think of the USA as anti-atrocity. Abu Ghraib huh? PM Blair ... the disgrace of the Labour Party. When America builds a coalition to take on a foreign power, check who signs on in each case. Canada fought in Korea... NOT Vietnam. Allies supported a war on Bin Laden.. where journalists on the ground outnumbered the troops assaulting his "lair". Friends supported the war on Iraq when Saddem made a sovereign UN state disappear. They did not show up for Round two, the revenge tour.
A mix of things actually. The assassination of JFK, Nam, Watergate and the rampant ascension of power of the CIA made that americans felt watched all the time, and as the government distrusted its population, the population started to resent and distrust the government. Who would've thought that spying on everyone would get everyone mad at you?
The great thing about Mr. Beats channel is you can always count on him to extensively research topics and find things you’ve never heard of before. It definitely makes the viewing experience much better and is definitely a factor as to why he’s one of my favorite history channels
Xenophobia isn't a fear of the Chinese specifically. It's fear of people who are different. For example, a lot of xenophobics get really on edge by people in their community on the autism spectrum, even though they otherwise qualify for being part of the community that the xenophobic trusts.
I wanna just say kudos to you, you weren't afraid to tell it like it is and criticize EVERY president regardless which party they were from. Too many people these days tend to say "Politicians from my party are all good while politicians from the other party are all corrupt to the core." And if I ever become president, I'm sure you will criticize me too and I am there for it. God bless the first amendment.
Well he was wrong about the central bank stuff 07:51. While it is true that most economists agree that central bank prevent market crashes, the same economists are also on the government dole. Basically they are paid to cheer the central bank and the United States Federal reyhas thousands of economists on their payroll as consultants. Now why would they risk fame and fortune when it is lucrative to lie in favor of the central bank?
@@maxi1ification True, but it is well known that government economists are basically cheer leaders for the ruling party. They don't see a recession until they are a year into it.
@@holdmybeer123 Similarly, people staunchly against central banks manage to have their own financial incentives to denounce such an institution. It's really hard to get objective assessments of things like that, sadly.
In defense of Carter, I believe he did all he could do at that time. To quote Edward Grey, who wrote a book about US Presidents, “Although he has been heavily criticized for his handling of the crisis, few were prepared to say what they would have done in his place.”
@@jabrokneetoeknee6448 I believe that was also cited as one of the causes for the airline chaos earlier this year but whatever source I got that from could be wrong.
@@wildfire9280 Indirectly, yes. The airline industry has substantially changed its business model since the deregulation act. During the "Golden Era of Flight" airlines made most of their revenue from the selling of seats... something which sounds like a given. But that drove up the prices for seats on high-demand flights. Oftentimes a passenger would find themselves paying more on a short NYC to DC flight compared to a much longer NYC to Austin flight. Airlines didn't like this model because it meant that long routes were often less profitable. Today, much of airline revenues come from contracts with big banks, credit card companies, car rental companies, Fortune 500 corporations, who pay the airline for the right to issue "rewards" like miles to their customers or employees. Airlines prefer this model, of course, because it guarantees a steady stream of revenue regardless how many actual seats are being sold per flight. The consequence of this is that air travel, a pretty essential service in the 21st century, has been turned into a liability for airlines. They will cut costs on flights anyway imaginable... even if it means selling fewer seats. The airline industry's reaction to the pandemic typified this, when instead of using COVID stimulus money to keep pilots on the payroll through the lockdowns, like the government expected them to do, the airlines instead persuaded many pilots to retire early with very generous packages, and used the rest of the money on executive bonuses, dividends, and stock buy-backs. Now demand has returned to pre-pandemic levels but now the airlines are understaffed!
For personal Christian reasons Jimmy allowed the sick Shah entry for treatment to the US when Iranians demanded he be sent back to them for trial. THAT was his biggest mistake. The Shah was going to die soon regardless and he deserved to be on trial anyway. Not getting their trial caused the 'not US hating anti-Shah' Iranians to turn into radical, US hating Jihadists.
Fun fact, I'm actually related to someone who survived the Bay of pigs, my great grandfather. Sadly he passed away after the event, but he was one of the few that avoided capture and lived
@@sogga_fan I don’t understand the mindset of someone being rude with a complete stranger right off the bat. Sure it might make your ego feel a bit better if you’re that kind of person but you just end up antagonizing everyone else by pointlessly being rude. Just be nice, y’all
Thanks for calling Roosevelt’s concentration camps, concentration camps. One thing of note is that some of the men that were recruited in these concentration camps to fight in World War II were some of the most decorated soldiers of World War II, and as a unit I think nobody came close to them in valor.
I disagree. Not that the camps weren't a terrible decision, but holy shit y'all underestimate how horrid concentration camps are. Things designed to slowly kill the inhabitants after extracting all the labor possible. Compared, Japanese internment camps were while still bad, not nearly close to German concentration camls
@@chrischeng9145 I agree that the nazi concentration camps were horrific and beyond comprehension for the misery that they caused. To compare one evil to another is extremely difficult. Some people refer to the Nazi concentration camps as death camps which they were and Roosevelt’s camps were not death camps but they were places where people that the government wanted to concentrate people. I know people who were related to the people who were in those camps and served with distinction and valor in World War II. I believe we must acknowledge the past mistakes if we are ever to learn how to create a truly great country. Roosevelt did many great things and he did some very bad things most presidents fall into that category. We must learn from our mistakes and some mistakes. Hopefully we will never make again.
My college thesis was, "Japanese American Atitudes towards their Interment". My professor was stunned that none of his students ever wrote on that. I remember my high school history teacher explained how wrong the intermnet was but in retrospect how many Japanese-American lives were saved [from murder] as the American body-count rose in the Pacific. He did not say "murder" but we all understood what he meant.
I like how you put in the "Philippine American War" as Mckinley's greatest mistake. As a Filipino High Schooler in Grade 7 in the Philippines, I learned about the Philippine American War in our Grade 6 Araling Panlipunan Class (It's our social studies/history subject) so for you to put it in the video made me feel more nationalism in me as a Filipino. Thank you, Mr. Beat for putting in the war that may have devastated my country, but a great way to educate people about the independence we Filipinos were fighting for.
I'm weird, but I also loved my AP US History class. I feel like I'm back in that class with Mr. Beat. I appreciate how much scholarship he puts into his videos.
This is a much better way to learn the presidents and an overview of US history than I got in middle and high school. Everything was so segmented, it was hard to see the interconnections. I would prefer to start from this high level look at everything and then dig into all that was going on and the context around things.
Hey Mr. Beat, i just want to say thank you for your amazing content. I am a huge fan of your channel! You and Vlogging Through History are 2 of some of the major reasons why I am currently majoring in history and working towards becoming a history professor. God bless you and keep up the amazing work!
Ford's biggest mistake?: Telling a bankrupt New York City to "Go To Hell". I STILL remember that newspaper front page in giant font on my classroom wall. And I've NEVER forgotten it.
Not only did Trump's false claims hurt american democracy, it also lead to other country leaders to question the electoral system of their country, like here in Brazil, where we had our own version of January 6 this year
Trump proved that anyone lucky enough to be born with charisma and massive generational wealth can overthrow democracy by impulsively saying dumb shit on Twitter
Are you sure the events in Brazil wouldn’t have happened without Jan 6th? It’s not like people haven’t stormed government buildings before that, Americans weren’t the first.
Excellent! Thank-you Mr. Beat. As a 60 year old whose American History Class in High School was one of the most challenging classes I ever took - we had to read a book a week from biographies (Andrew Jackson, Eugene Debbs) to histories by Bruce Caton & Benjamin Quarels this is a reminder of what I learned. Thank-you again, I enjoy your site.
Well had he ended slavery, it would’ve stopped the huge divide the country had throughout the 1800s. Remember, he understood that slavery had to go, and even wanted to free his slaves after his death, but couldn’t free many of them because of Martha Edit: Martha did free her slaves in 1800, however it was out of fear for her own life
@@legendarywiimaster the south still existed in 1790 it would have led much worse relations witht the southern states if not secession as soon as the country was formed
@@eugenepiurkowski5439 I really hate this talking point of "you can't judge history by modern standards" when you very well can. Slavery has existed since the start of civilization, and still lasts to today. We've known it's one of the worst things you can inflict upon another individual for millennia. If slavery wasn't that bad to historical figures, *why* did they have to kidnap Africans and bring them across the Atlantic, just causing more trouble for themselves in the process? There are plenty of records of white American elites being abolitionists in the 18th, even the 17th, century. And just look at Phillis Wheatley and her contemporaries, for example. She was incredibly outspoken about her experience as an enslaved woman in the colonies, and she faced constant harassment from whites who refused her talent and humanity, because they didn't want to acknowledge that she is just like them. They felt guilt.
@eugenepiurkowski5439 You say this as if there were no abolitionists in Washington's time. Airbags were not invented yet, but abolitionism was well-known to educated people back then.
I have have to say, that I love how all of the legislatures thats passed these laws completely escape culpability. Literally hundreds of men, by way of majority in 2 separate legislative bodies, pass a law, but only the person who signs the law in accountable. How many of these laws could have withstood a veto, and how many couldn't? We have no clue, so just blame the one person. Legislatures tyrannize too!
1:10 George Washington 1:48 John Adams Jr 2:29 Thomas Jefferson 3:25 James Madison Jr 4:00 James Monroe 4:54 John Quincy Adams I 5:22 Andrew Jackson II 6:17 Martin Van Buren Sr 7:15 William Henry Harrison Sr 7:27 John Tyler IV 8:18 James Knox Polk 9:14 Zachary Taylor 10:01 Millard Fillmore 10:36 Franklin Kendrick Pierce Sr 11:15 James Buchanan Jr 11:53 Abraham Lincoln 12:25 Andrew Johnson Sr 13:03 Hiram Ulysses Simpson Grant Sr 13:55 Rutherford Birchard Hayes 14:29 James Abram Garfield 15:09 Chester Alan Arthur I 15:57 Stephen Grover Cleveland 16:33 Benjamin Harrison VIII 17:12 William McKinley Jr 18:11 Theodore Roosevelt II 19:15 William Howard Taft 19:49 Thomas Woodrow Wilson 20:46 Warren Gamaliel Harding 21:35 John Calvin Coolidge Jr 22:29 Herbert Clark Hoover Sr 23:20 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr 23:58 Harry Solomon Shipp Truman 25:09 Dwight David Eisenhower 26:26 John Fitzgerald Kennedy Sr 27:04 Lyndon Baines Johnson 27:50 Richard Milhous Nixon 29:29 Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr 29:54 James Earl Carter Jr 30:24 Ronald Wilson Reagan 31:28 George Herbert Walker Bush 31:59 William Jefferson Clinton 33:50 George Walker Bush 34:25 Barack Hussein Obama II 35:10 Donald John Trump Sr 36:19 Joseph Robinette Biden Jr
Thanks for making another amazing President video, Mr. Beat! It was really well made and you have a wonderful way of explaining things! Love your work!
Well done Mr. Beat, another great and well made video! I chose my major, american studies, because of your videos. As a European, they really got me into american history and the english language itself, so now I'm studying english lingusitics and american studies. I'm fascinated by your political history and how different it is from ours. Thanks again, keep up the good work!
@@iammrbeat Hungary, I want to visit the UK too at one point, but I'm too poor now xd Inflation is above 25%, food prices have increased almost 50% since last year... Can't afford a trip anytime soon :/
Thank you so much for the content that you make, I live in Texas and to say our education system is failing teaching us accurately about civics would be beyond an understatement. Like it's so bad that I recently discovered that my old Texas History Teacher (who refused to acknowledge that slavery was a factor in the civil war) was recently arrested for being a jan 6 rioter. I feel bad for my peers getting robbed of such important information, and with recent political stunts by governors like Abbott and Desantis, im glad your channel is helping to mitigate the issue of inaccessible civics content.
The "stunts" from Abbott and DeSantis are legitimate moves. Students don't need to be pushed false things like prison = slavery, there's more than 2 genders, and a black guy invented the light bulb.
So awful - good for you for having the interest to discover some actual history . And despite what those governors want to tell you - no slavery was not a state sponsored jobs training program.
@@Sugarman96 Harrison’s, Taylor’s, Lincoln’s, Garfield’s, McKinley’s, Harding’s, FDRs and Kennedy’s time to shine, nothing bad to say about their post presidencies 😂
For real most republican governors took a more moderate approach. Like the governors os Ohio ,Alabama and Arkansas all had good Covid policy and he should’ve copied them.
What mistakes did I make with this video?
You forgot Obama's biggest mistake which was not prosecuting the bankers and financial people responsible for the crash of 2008 and bailing them out with GW Bush. The lack of oversight created the Tea Party which in turn manifested in Donald Trump and the division we see today!
Mr. Beat: You should have spent more time talking about how horrible Don the Con Trump was. Twice impeached Trump was the worst US president in history for many reasons.
#1) Trump committed an act of treason/sedition against the US by inciting a violent insurrection on January 6, 2021.
#2) Trump’s incompetence regarding his management of the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic between January 2020 and July of 2020. Thousands of US citizens died as a result Trump’s failure. If Trump had a proper immediate response to the pandemic the way that the South Korean government did, then thousands of US citizens who died would still be alive today.
#3) In April of 2019 Trump vetoed the resolution to end US military support of Saudi Arabia's GENOCIDE of thousands of innocent civilians in Yemen! Trump was using the US military to support GENOCIDE in Yemen!
#4) Trump violated the Emoluments Clause of the US Constitution for his entire 4 years in office, then in 2019 Trump verbally mocked the US Constitution. The foundation of the USA is the US Constitution, that is why the presidential inaugural oath includes to swear to protect and defend the US Constitution. In January 2017 Trump publicly swore an oath on a bible at his inauguration ceremony to protect and defend the US Constitution. In 2019 Trump mocked the US Constitution by publicly saying the words "phony emoluments clause".
#5) Trump misogynistically and adulterously said of women: "Grab them by the pussy."! Trump committed adultery with Stormy Daniels and then tried to cover it up. Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was in prison for crimes related to Trump's cover-up of his adulterous scandal with Stormy Daniels. Most Republicans claim to be the moral party and/or the majority Christian party, but hypocritically enthusiastically want to give an adulterous Donald Trump, another 4 years in office. If a US president who was a member of the Democratic Party did the terrible things Trump has, of course, the Republican Party leaders would be screaming for his removal from office.
#6) Trump committed the crime of obstruction of justice.
#7) Trump committed crimes of trying to tamper with elections, especially in Georgia.
#8) Trump's attempted abuse of power regarding Ukraine.
#9) Trump committed tax fraud in New York State, which why Trump hid his tax returns for years.
#10) Trump practiced corrupt nepotism as he appointed unqualified members of his family into positions of power in the executive branch of government.
#11) Trump illegally destroyed documents and illegally took documents with him after he left the office of president.
There are many other horrible things about Trump. Here are some of them: Donald Trump is a dumb corrupt businessman which is why he hid his tax returns. Donald Trump is not a self-made man, he benefited from nepotism. His daddy Fred Trump gave him millions of dollars to start businesses many of which have failed! Donald Trump's failed businesses are many but include: Trump Airlines, a Trump Casino, and Trump University. With his failed Trump University, he defrauded hundreds of students. In Trump's many construction projects he failed to pay some of his contractors. Trump committed fraud with his non-profit in New York State which is why Trump recently transferred his residence to Florida. Donald Trump is too stupid to write his own book which why he hired a ghost writer to write "The Art of the Deal". When Trump was in high school, he hired another boy to take his SAT college entrance exam. Trump claims that he is smart, but he refuses to show us his college transcripts. Donald Trump's daddy bribed a physician to write that Donald Trump had bone spurs and therefore could dodge the Vietnam War draft. Donald Trump and his dad also practiced racism in who they would rent properties to in the 1960s and 1970s. That is just scratching the surface of the long list of horrible things about Donald Trump.
Obamas biggest mistake is allowing china to take over the south china sea. this set up the battleground for ww3 which the US may now lose because of obama
In the Missouri compromise map, west virginia is included. The map is pre-civil war
Interesting video. I may be wrong and you probably have more years teaching than I. But as I understand it, William Henry Harrison gave the longest inaugural speech in history in the pouring rain, thus dying from pneumonia not from drinking DC water. I thought Taylor died from cholera from drinking milk on a hot 4th of July day. Perhaps my teachers back in the day, taught me wrong info.
I thought JFK’s was just gonna be “Driving in an open top convertible”
Nah, his biggest mistake was pissing off the CIA by lambasting them for what they did to cuba ;)
Yeah that wasn’t the greatest idea
On that point, the secret service greatest mistake is not having agents stationed in buildings along the route. If a few had been in the book depository, they could’ve caught Oswald before he started shooting
@@pokemaster123ismyeah because the psycho did it in broad daylight where witnesses could see him
Unfortunately he wasn't Garfield
I greatly appreciate that these mistakes are ranked by how much harm to how many people they caused, instead of how much personal political damage they caused.
I turned this virtue-signaling nonsense off pretty quickly.
@@willpomeroy7711 people like you piss me off…
@willpomeroy7711 I turned your virtue signaling mom on pretty quickly
Yup, the fact that he said the Afghanistan withdrawal was worse to Americans that Bidens inflation act is ridiculous. The middle class is being destroyed and the poor r getting poorer while the rich r getting super rich from pandemics and wars. Biden and Ukraine is a huge bluder too. Why are we spending trillions to try and start WW3? There's no outcome where Russia loses and DOESN'T resort to tactical nuclear weapons. Russia isn't boy scouts, if Truman dropped a bomb than Putin won't hesitate before he's defeated. Just like Kim jongs sorry ass. All these "world leaders" are world class crooks. Corrupt.
@@willpomeroy7711 our highest elected representative has a duty and a responsibility to ensure the wellbeing of our nation's peoples. I'm sorry you cannot see a learning opportunity from this retrospective of our leaders careers.
Too many people think patriotism is thinking their country is perfect. Truth is a country cannot improve without remembering its mistakes. Great vid
No, no, no 'Murica is the greatest country on earth. Period. Freedom!!!!!!!!!! Bald Eagles!
@John Jones AMERICA NOT Murica!!! Too bad RAPCRAPPERS can't read or write
@@johnjones3813 objectively yes, not perfect but the best in the world. The UK is in shambles, France is having its second French Revolution. Russia is having its another Stalin. The US isn’t perfect. Even in your comment you didn’t mention it being perfect. But it’s the closest thing, maybe not forever but right now it’s all we have.
@@johnjones3813 Funnily enough though India could’ve potentially rivaled the US if it wasn’t for the UK stealing everything from them, the US have committed atrocities but what about the UK increasing the homelessness rate in India into the 50% range or Germany killing millions of Jews, Japans Rape of Nanking in WW2 all these countries are patriotic, because despite a countries flaws you can still feel pride for it.
@@johnjones3813 it is the greatest on earth, I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. That being said, there’s a lot of things that need to be fixed
Thank you for mentioning Ford's East Timor disaster. Most Americans know nothing about this shameful event in our history.
I feel like a lot of the early slave holding presidents were like...
"We need to end the scourge of slavery... Not me though. I'm busy. Someone will probably do it sooner or later though"
So true. The first half of the 19th century was presidents being too scared to tackle the horror that was slavery until it got to a breaking point of the civil war.
naw, it was just an early example of Rules for Thee But Not For Me. no one is above the law.... except the ones that create the laws.
A lot of abolitionists at the time thought that slavery would just die out naturally if they restricted it. They might have been right if the resulting policies didn't cause tensions that blew up into a civil war. Also the cotton gin happened.
Jefferson was the loudest of that bunch
I dont think much would've changed except the Civil War starting sooner than it actually did.
Garfield was such an S-tier person that his biggest mistakes were being too honest and trusting people.
Dude was even the last President until Truman to signal any support of protecting civil rights.
He believes in this crazy thing called freedom lol.
@@TheWorldOfGBoi yeah, fuck that freedom stuff, we support mother Russia
@@therealevilmudbug *soviet anthem intensifies*
He was an S teir president. Stalwart leader.
It’s crazy how a lot of these same laws and issues are constantly repeating themselves in different eras. Just goes to show how much we haven’t learned when it comes to our mistakes.
I believe those errors were a building of a foundation of rottenness, which under puppet Biden is becoming a full bldg into which the new oligarchy are quietly occupying - Herr Klaus Schwab, his Davos Wehrmacht and multi-billionaires, this is what Elon Musk is trying to expose, but MUST be circumspect.
the quiet underpinning is money (wealthly elite/slave owners)
I believe king Solomon said "there is nothing new under the sun." Also a great look at why we cannot move past our mistakes from the past without teaching about them in great depth. We put people in concentration camps because they sorta kinda looked like people who attacked one of our territories that we shouldn't have been in anyway. Not to mention all the coups we've staged, then the coups to take out the dictators we put in place etc. You get the point lol
Money has a lot to do with it, as always.. But just as big a cause is that we don't teach factual history. If you don't learn from your or others' mistakes, you'll be likely to repeat them.
Whitewashing history, banning books, omitting massive chunks, to deliberately create a demographic that won't know they're supporting a neo-Hitler until it's too late.. And those of us that DO know what's happening won't have enough numbers or power to do anything about it because we've allowed the militarization of the police .. Police controlled by the wealthy and politicians who are, by definition, the enemy in such circumstances.
it all just comes down to "i dont like this group of people. I'm going to ruin their lives"
Fantastic video..!
This was way more interesting than my history classes and a great jumping off point for excellent conversation.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
Woodrow Wilson's biggest mistake...running for president.
True that
Pretty true ngl
Actually, Woodrow Wilson is the biggest mistake of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.
WILSON
@@EagleGamer_ Shout out to Sipher
Thank you for acknowledging the Philippine-American war, Mr. Beat. As a Filipino on the way to becoming an American, I find that not many Americans are familiar of this. Actually, not many Americans are not familiar of the Filipino involvement of fighting with the Americans in WW2 either and the WW2 aide by the Americans sort of washed over the atrocities of the Philippine-American war.
Really refreshing to hear a history TH-camr talk about this.
Heck yeah. I am releasing a full video about the war this spring. Stay tuned!
I'm embarrassed to admit I've never even heard of this war until now and I'm in my mid-forties.
So thank you to both of you for creating some awareness of it
@@iammrbeat HELL YES! The history of the Philippines as a pseudo colony of the US is so dark and unexplored, to this day I think the affects are felt by the Filipino people
@@theoneandonlyguyallikian1190 Please don't be. I am not that familiar of American history and geography myself so I am doing my best to catch up. In fact, not a lot of Filipinos are familiar of this either.
Actually, William McKinley, who was president at the time, wasn't familiar with what's going on in the Philippines.
Although I must admit that I did take Economics as an elective in university over US History lol if I had only known then I should've taken it lmao
@@Secarstra777 Ah, yes. Many people are not familiar of this either. This is probably the reason why the Philippines has a specific liking to the United States and at one time pushed to be a US territory because of our fondness for the Americans during the American occupation and post-WW2. I would go as far to saying that the Americans are the only colonialists that Filipinos are generally enamoured with as we don't really feel this way towards Britain or Spain.
Just to add a little note, the reason why the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Philippines shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in WW2 is that the Philippines is a strategic stronghold of the Americans in South East Asia, as the Americans have built bases in the Philippines used during WW2 and Korean and Vietnam wars. And, of course, a major refueling station as well. In fact, the most considerable largest naval battle of all time happened during WW2 in the Philippines called the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Mr. Beat’s dislike of Woodrow Wilson never gets old.
I mean Wilson was awful so it makes sense.
I am flabbergasted by folks who still defend him.
You're entitled to your opinion, and I was familiar with James W Louwen criticising him earlier, but either actively or not attempting, I can't see any earlier presidents as being much worse or better.
Wilsoooooon!
He went surprisingly easy on him here. I was expecting the creation of the federal reserve to be his biggest failure.
Biden's biggest mistake: the 2024 Presidential Debate.
@@gmaxion2001
No. Being exit is one of them.
Running for president
@@gmaxion2001 lol so true
It really was
Future here: he isn’t running anymore
The more I thought about your take on Nixon's biggest mistake, the more I found myself agreeing. The War on Drugs has had a much longer impact, whereas Watergate is mostly known as a scandal at it's time and sort of stayed in the past. It has significant historical meaning, no doubt.
Watergate may have stayed in the past in the sense that people may not think about it all the time but I think it still had huge lasting impact on American’s trust of their own government.
@@hettinga359the less we trust the government, the better. Therefore watergates legacy is a positive
Biggest mistake was the dissolving of the bretton woods system and putting the world on fiat currency
Hell, the Nixon one is why Reaganomics isn't the worst part of Reagan's administration. Greatly increasing privatized prisons was. It's also why that godawful Clinton-era crime bill got passed.
I would argue the Cambodian bombing was worse. Not only did it drag another country into the Vietnam war, killing innocent civilians. But it also lead to the rise of the Khmer Rouge, which enacted the Cambodian genocide killing 20% of the population of Cambodia. That seems much worse to me than a bunch of people being thrown in prison. (Although the war on drugs was extremely bad).
Washington-1:10
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Jefferson----2:27
Madison-----3:24
Monroe------3:59
Adams-------4:53
Jackson-----5:20
Van Buren--6:16
Harrison----7:13
Tyler----------7:25
Polk----------8:16
Taylor--------9:13
Fillmore-----10:00
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Lincoln------11:51
Johnson----12:25
Grant---------13:02
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Arthur--------15:08
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Harrison----16:32
Mckinley----17:11
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Coolidge----21:32
Hoover------22:28
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Truman-----23:55
Ike-------------25:09
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Nixon--------27:50
Ford----------29:28
Carter--------29:54
Reagan-----30:23
H Bush-----31:27
Clinton------31:59
Bush---------33:48
Obama------34:23
Trump-------35:09
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Thanks for doing that
Thanks , still in the premiere 😅
Twice impeached Trump was the worst US president in history for many reasons.
#1) Trump committed an act of treason against the US by inciting a violent insurrection on January 6, 2021.
#2) Trump’s incompetence regarding his management of the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic between January 2020 and July of 2020. Thousands of US citizens died as a result Trump’s failure. If Trump had a proper immediate response to the pandemic the way that the South Korean government did, then thousands of US citizens who died would still be alive today.
#3) In April of 2019 Trump vetoed the resolution to end US military support of Saudi Arabia's GENOCIDE of thousands of innocent civilians in Yemen! Trump was using the US military to support GENOCIDE in Yemen!
#4) Trump violated the Emoluments Clause of the US Constitution for his entire 4 years in office, then in 2019 Trump verbally mocked the US Constitution. The foundation of the USA is the US Constitution, that is why the presidential inaugural oath includes to swear to protect and defend the US Constitution. In January 2017 Trump publicly swore an oath on a bible at his inauguration ceremony to protect and defend the US Constitution. In 2019 Trump mocked the US Constitution by publicly saying the words "phony emoluments clause".
#5) Trump misogynistically and adulterously said of women: "Grab them by the pussy."! Trump committed adultery with Stormy Daniels and then tried to cover it up. Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was in prison for crimes related to Trump's cover-up of his adulterous scandal with Stormy Daniels. Most Republicans claim to be the moral party and/or the majority Christian party, but hypocritically enthusiastically want to give an adulterous Donald Trump, another 4 years in office. If a US president who was a member of the Democratic Party did the terrible things Trump has, of course, the Republican Party leaders would be screaming for his removal from office.
#6) Trump committed the crime of obstruction of justice.
#7) Trump committed crimes of trying to tamper with elections, especially in Georgia.
#8) Trump's attempted abuse of power regarding Ukraine.
#9) Trump committed tax fraud in New York State, which why Trump hid his tax returns for years.
#10) Trump practiced corrupt nepotism as he appointed unqualified members of his family into positions of power in the executive branch of government.
#11) Trump illegally destroyed documents and illegally took documents with him after he left the office of president.
There are many other horrible things about Trump. Here are some of them: Donald Trump is a dumb corrupt businessman which is why he hid his tax returns. Donald Trump is not a self-made man, he benefited from nepotism. His daddy Fred Trump gave him millions of dollars to start businesses many of which have failed! Donald Trump's failed businesses are many but include: Trump Airlines, a Trump Casino, and Trump University. With his failed Trump University, he defrauded hundreds of students. In Trump's many construction projects he failed to pay some of his contractors. Trump committed fraud with his non-profit in New York State which is why Trump recently transferred his residence to Florida. Donald Trump is too stupid to write his own book which why he hired a ghost writer to write "The Art of the Deal". When Trump was in high school, he hired another boy to take his SAT college entrance exam. Trump claims that he is smart, but he refuses to show us his college transcripts. Donald Trump's daddy bribed a physician to write that Donald Trump had bone spurs and therefore could dodge the Vietnam War draft. Donald Trump and his dad also practiced racism in who they would rent properties to in the 1960s and 1970s. That is just scratching the surface of the long list of horrible things about Donald Trump.
I wonder which one the most people skipped to 😂
@@waynejohnson1786 Probably the most recent ones.
Imagine being the President of the United States, and you’re defeated by a glass of water.
Imagine being stupid enough to vote for Demholes.
bad disgusting water, I guess. The schools I went to never went into full disclosure about that sorta thing. Apparently, truly patriotic parents value lower taxes over their own children's futures.
He likely died of pneumonia caused by giving a 2.5 hour inauguration speech in the rain.
36:45 I think we can say at this point that his biggest mistake now is his mishandling of Gaza
This is absolutely the case, continuing to provide weapons to the IDF considering illegal resetting of Gaza by Israelis
@@benjijacobs2049 no israeli troops settle there ilegally. Tf u mean?
@@benjijacobs2049there was and is no israeli troops ilegally settled there. Tf u r talking about. Lmao
@@theosteven3362 he is talking about the Israeli civilians waiting to illegally resettle Gaza not the military. The Biden administration actually place sanctions on the settlers before removing them at some point this year. Google: Illegal Israeli settlers or Biden Sanctions settlers. There was a lawsuit attempting to remove said sanctions on questionable reasoning in February but I’m not sure how far it got given those sanctions have removed.
@@theosteven3362 Israel's occupation of Gaza (and the West Bank) are in violation of international law. everybody knows this.
It's rather hilarious how Harrison's greatest mistake, drinking a cup of water, meant that he could be, arguably, one of the least destructive US presidents. You know, 'cause he was only in the White House for 1 month.
If you're a pessimist, Harrison was the least worst president since he had the fewest failures and scandals. If you're an optimist, he was the worst president since he had the fewest accomplishments.
@@MistyKathrineIf you really want to be a pessimist since I refuse to believe presidencies of people like Lincoln were “bad” in the sense they were net negatives for the nation. Keeping the country together gets you into positives no matter what you do after it.
@@Ballin4Vengeance Pessimist view = rating presidents primarily on their failures and scandals.
Optimistic view = rating presidents primarily on their the achievements and successes.
Most rankings put Harrison as a bottom 5 president and I feel like that's unfair for a guy who didn't really do anything bad. I think he should be ranked as 23rd out of 45, in the dead center of the list because while he had the fewest accomplishments, he also had the fewest failures.
@@MistyKathrine he shouldn't be included in the lists at all. He was only in office for one month and most of it he was bed bound. If he has to go in the list he should be number 45 at the very bottom because he literally did nothing. I mean sure it's unfortunate for him he died so early into his term but that's the cold hard facts. He did nothing as president.
Sustaining a rich & powerful nation such as the US requires blood and sacrifice, you have to be destructive for it to be successful. Not saying it's all evil, just that it's reality.
If my dad was a president, I'd be the biggest one
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oof XD
We know.
NAH😭
Eric, is that you?
I remember hearing a story about some great-grandfather of mine that hated James Buchanan and his decisions, so in retaliation he planted explosives around several military bunkers and blew them up. I don't know the historical accuracy of this story, but it is interesting nonetheless.
so essentially the Oklahoma city bombing but based
So basically an attempt at a gunpowder plot?
I have never hoped more that a story is true in my entire life. What an absolute Chad.
@@flickcentergaming680 It sounds like the sort of thing that would be rather easy to verify, even for that era, right? People would talk about that sort of thing
Never thought I'd get History lessons by Gordon Freeman.
🤣 Holy sh*t, I cannot unsee that now.
Not even mentioning Reagan's handling of the Aids crisis is insane
He didn't handle anything. He ignored it.
Not even mentioning Reagan’s handling of everything is insane.
And his support for genocidal military juntas and death squads in Latin America.
Fords other mistake was pardoning Nixon.
Shouldn't have been gay
I am once again asking for every President’s prior jobs/elected offices
It's on my list. Don't worry, I'll get to it eventually. :)
Get a almanac. From what I read the majority wore lawyer's, some military.
He's a one man rodeo give him some time my guy😭😂
The elder Bush was probably the most prepared/qualified President ever.
@@brianmiller1077also Nixon
I still say the Trail of Tears was Jackson’s worst action because not only did it hurt tens of thousands of people (many of whom died on the journey) but he defied SCOTUS to do so.
There never should have been a trial of tears. It was a genocide attempt.
I strongly loathe that man, but his energy was definitely something else.
Asking the judiciary branch how they were going to do the executive branches job of enforcing the law was a power move
@@TheOriginalPoon that's also how coups start
I agree. Native American genocide is far worse than a recession. Honestly, kinda pissed me off that the Trail of Tears was treated so lightly here.
@@wehweh3 On top of that, he was the most radically pro-slavery president ever. To the point that he once said that all the abolitionists who sent their literature into the south to try and change minds should commit suicide.
Mr. Beat: "He's still president, there's still time for him to make an even BIGGER mistake!" LOL🤣
Joe: "you're right. Hold my beer."
@@kerrygilliard3986 well, looked like Kamala was the one holding the beer during Thanksgiving 🤣😭
Reagan's abysmal response to the AIDS epidemic should been an honorable mention.
Edit: edited the proper noun from Regan to Raegan...so stop the snarky comments. Bottomline is, he was pretty awful.
It was as bad with Thatcher's attitude with AIDS and gay people here in the UK.
@@evonneothe thing is that that wasn’t a mistake, that was intentional
@@lizwohl4765 yeah. Idk if it was to kill the African population or the LGBT population or both but Reagans and the conservatives as a whole killed them and are burning in hell
@@lizwohl4765 yeah. Idk if it was to kill the African population or the LGBT population or both but Reagans and the conservatives as a whole killed them and are burning in hell
Or just his entire presidency lol
My father was a victim of the war on drugs. He died in prison and robbed me of my dad at the age of 11. I didn't feel his death when I was young, since he didn't live with me and I didn't know what I was missing, but I feel his death now as an adult. Saddens me how his life was not treated as valuable. He was just locked away, when he needed help, and left to die.
So sorry that you lost your dad like that. I certainly hope that you don't use drugs, including alcohol which causes the most deaths of all drugs.
yea thats fucked i'm sorry :(
The war on drugs didn't rob you of your dad. The drugs did.
@@nothingyoudexpectexactly.
I see your point and sense your pain.
Lincoln’s biggest mistake was going to Fords theatre on April 14th 1865
Absolutely!
Do you think John Wilkes Booth as a Mexican would be Juan Wilkes Booth
Definitely his biggest accident but idk if mistake is the right word given the information he had when making that decision
@@CBell123what gets us into the situation where he's Mexican? You want him to keep his middle and last name, so start from there, and I will determine whether or not his name would be Juan
@@baliistic3697
No. It was not finishing implementing the Liberia plan, by force.
Arguably, Ike’s overthrowing of the Iranian government is probably the worst thing a popular president has ever done (in terms of long-term effects on world peace)
Iran used to be chill man
That blame rests more on Allen Dulles one of the worst villains of the 20th century not even being hyperbolic. CIA gonna CIA.
@@NavelOrangeGazer ike warned us of the military industrial complex because as the president and a 5 star general, he was seemingly powerless against it. Had he stood in the way, someone would have gotten him. Just like patton and the Kennedys
I came across this video while mindlessly scrolling TH-cam half-asleep and somehow misread it as “every president’s biggest milkshake”. Had me thinking for a split second that there’s some sort of presidential tradition I don’t know about and that this is a really niche video topic.
I don't know how such a great comment is 4 months old without any replies, so here's a reply and a 93rd like
I'd like to know which President had the milkshake that brought the most boys to the yard.
If i had to guess it would probably be madison or biden@@CharlestonChica
Which Milkshake did Kennedy like to drink?
A) Strawberry;
B) Vanilla;
C) Chocolate.
Whereas I'm now chuckling over your use of both 'milkshake' and 'split' in the same sentence. Bananas!
Great video, a lot of my guesses came up, and there were quite a few surprises that I learned about. I think it goes without saying that your research and ability to remain relatively unbiased is admirable, but I think an underappreciated aspect of your videos is simply your presentation of these facts. Feels like a lot of history channels I watch kinda just read their script with no emotion, and make it easy to zone out on. But you're consistently keeping your inflection light and fun, making jokes, and it feels more conversational. It's the little things! Keep up the great work Mr. Beat.
out of all the people, I never expected you to be here lol
Yeah
UNCLE DANE OMG LOL, I was not expecting you to be on this video. I do agree with what your comment has to say, as I am a huge history nerd, and the main reason why I even watch Mr Beat.
very good sentry man
@@bray7934 was about to say the same thing lol
*Almost ever US president:* _I am against slavery, segregation & impleading the freedom of speech / expression._
*Also said US presidents:* *_Signs a policy that makes slavery, segregation & impleading the freedom of speech / expression easier._*
Now do every other country in the world. Take off the hair shirt man.... it's tacky. This AWFL & AWEML (adult female white liberal/adult white effeminate male liberal) penchant for self flagellation, you do realize you're the only demographic in the world that does that? And if you're thinking that makes you look virtuous, think again. Chinese call you a "baizuo." Trust me that ain't a compliment. Everybody else on the globe just rolls their eyes at you.
I mean that quite literally by the way. They surveyed the entire world, there is not a single demographic besides awfuls and awemulls who isn't in group biased. What a sick pathology.
By the way anybody standards reading you're welcome for AWEML. I felt like that needed to exist next to AWFL.
Here's another fun fact: they polled zoomers, and like 77% of them thought that Indians lived in peace and harmony with the land before the white man got here. God I'm laughing so hard I can't even voice text dictate. Even now it's like the third time I've talked about it. The average native American tribe practiced a casual sort of genocide on its neighbors and was extremely enthusiastic about taking slaves. There were exceptions but they were definitely a minority. Casual genocide & slavetaking had I rather serious enhancing effect on that.
More dumb fun with baizuos.
Well when it comes to the first seven Presidents or so, they actually made slavery much harder, like banning it in the Northwest territory, banning the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, etc. But they never went so far as to outright ban it because they thought it would go away on it's own, and banning it outright would just cause unnecessary bloodshed. Obviously they were wrong, and slavery ended up actually becoming bigger in the future, but they had good intentions. Some of them were hypocrites though, owning their own slaves despite being against slavery.
never trust a politician
It was about the culture at the time, the leaders were trying to delay a civil war which was bound to happen at some point. No president could magically erase the practice of slavery.
Biggest mistakes for presidents:
William H Harrison: "Beautiful day, i dont need a coat"
Lincoln: "Lets go see a play"
Garfield: "Lets take a train"
McKinley: "Lets go to the fair"
Kennedy: "Lets go for a ride. I need to clear my head"
That last one was hilarious.
One dishonorable mention for Reagan should have been how he actively avoided even acknowledging let alone doing anything to help the HIV/AIDs crisis.
100%
His attitude toward it was definitely part of what contributed to many conservatives thinking that gay men were getting what they deserved for being gay. And it was even worse when he only started to care at all when Rock Hudson revealed he also had HIV.
I haven't watched the video yet, but defanging antitrust and allowing all sorts of corrupt monopolistic mergers, setting that precedent was very easily Reagan's worst move. It's not even close. It has a massive effect on every American to this day and will for very long time. It's arguably almost as bad as Clinton and glass-steagall. And to be quite clear Clinton is the worst president of the last handful. Or more. Easily. And that includes young bush and the current traitorous clown. That's how bad killing glass-steagall was. It very directly precipitated the 2008 Great recession, and it has ongoing horrific effects.
Reagan's AIDS response was pretty bad, but it was sort of a trump level covid bad. In a different way though. I think Trump was actually trying to do the right thing he just failed hard trusting fauci and Pfizer & the WHO. He had a lot of company though, everyone but Sweden drastically mismanaged the crisis. Aside from Trump's continuous spew of clinical narcissism, he really wasn't that bad a president for the most part. He didn't make a lot of mistakes besides allowing lockdowns and pushing the Pfizer poison.
My theory of presidents these days is that their adequacy or inadequacy is mostly determined by what they don't do. By mistakes they don't make. Biden got in the office and immediately made 10 horrific errors. Errors or purposeful evils I'm not quite sure which. Trump mostly stayed out the economy and energy's way. You can't really expect too much more from a president these days. Sad but true.
thats kinda simple for people to solve themselves
It was extremely not simple back then@@cardboard9124 . It was an apocalypse for some demographics (promiscuous gay males for the most part, also many africans.)
What exactly could Ronald Reagan have done? Imprison every suspected homosexual in the country and prevent them from having sex? When Reagan was in office the majority opinion was that it was a 'gay disease'
Thank you for curing the deaf and the blind Mr. Beat. We really appreciate what you do
Thank you for making Squid Games Mr Beat
thank you for give away so mich money Mr. Beat. Wow.
One of our country's most arrogant leaders (academic - so what's new), he forced through the change is status of gov't few know about (what else is new about a Dem). He changed the status of Senators, they were supposed to be appointed by states, - Like the house of Lords in England. They were to be the voice of the interests of the state. He made them like the House and thus removed barriers to his implementing his ideas.
Dont you mean Mrbeast?
@@peter25681 Literally what the fuck are you talking about?
This really puts American leadership into prospective as it appears nearly all our Presidents were more terrible than any of us really know. People often look at the most recent ones because that is what they're experienced in their lifetime but the earlier ones were far worse in many ways.
Lol you’re lucky you live in a country with free press because I guarantee you every leader ever has made mistakes and most of them you don’t know about
As an independent I honestly don’t think anyone was ever worse than Biden currently is, could be recency bias like you said but dude can’t form a sentence and tanked the economy
One could look at it that way for sure. However, I think there is way more to it than that. When you do many things you are bound to mess up some of them. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices.
The current ones are worse. They affect us now.
@@ivanredinger969 - "Sometimes you have to make sacrifices."
Especially in a country that often tears each other apart about which political party they are. If you please one, you risk ticking off the other.
Clinton deserves an honorable mention for "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." It was a political slogan that went (really) badly.
That was bad, but not remotely close to his other things, or most of the things in this video
Just started watching but wanted to say your channel has always been a great source of non-toxic political education. People these days underestimate the impact of emotional framing in content/online in general ❤❤❤
I think the 2 biggest mistakes by any given U.S. president are (and this is just in general):
1. Not learning from the past mistakes made by world leaders in history
2. Not putting the best interest of the American people 1st, but rather prioritizing their own self interests, their party's agendas, and most of all the interests of lobbyists and special interest groups
Amen.
NOPE still not worse than supporting slavery
The problem with your second suggestion, is thinking that the "American people" is a single entity where they have a "best interest".
Any action taken by a president will affect some Americans in a positive way and others in a negative way
@@AdventVFX At the time, the victims of slavery were not deemed to be American people, so supporting the decision of slavery was not going against the American people. Furthermore, going with the agenda of the American people is not always a good thing case in point slavery. Supporting slavery was a bad decision because it is a grand violation of morality, not because it goes against the agenda of the American people.
An excellent example of number two is the biggest mistake Clinton actually made: killing the glass_steagalll act. Clinton was wall street's little bitch boy, and this led very directly to the Great recession of 2008 and almost every other financial problem we have is interwoven. Too big to fail, Clinton made that. This is why he's the worst President anyone alive can remember. Worse than the young bush.
Worse than Biden who blew Carter's inflation record out of the water (presuming you calculate inflation in an honest way like under Carter. Back then they used to include pittences like energy and gas and food. Now the quote unquote basket of goods is half stuff that goes down like TVs and not so much with the food and energy and housing.)
Before you vote biden consider by any honest reckoning we've had 25% inflation followed by 13% inflation then compounded. 13% of 25 is around 3. So under Biden we've had 41% inflation which is basically a 41% tax on anyone who spends almost everything they make, ie the poor. He's a real man of the people. "Come on man! use my basket of inflation!" No thanks Joe. I'll even vote for Trump over your incompetent ass.
I can only imagine the headaches while making this video, great job man
Thank you buddy
Obama's biggest mistake was to leave his presidency with records left behind that proved he was apprised of the Russian collusion hoax perpetrated by Hillary Clinton on August 3, 2016. He could have saved himself of being found complicit in the crime if only he would have informed the public of it being a hoax and took steps to insure the FBI would not run with it, but he didn't. He let it become a major political issue. Obama deserves to be charged in the conspiracy to frame Trump with false allegations of Russian collusion, along with Hillary Clinton and several members of the FBI. Oh, Joe Biden was in the room when Obama was apprised of it being a hoax, as was James Comey, James Clapper, John Brennan and Loretta Lynch. All deserve to be charged accordingly.
Mr. Beat! You're my post, B.A. degree professor! I majored in Poli Sci, but I forgot a lot of what I learned. You give me a refresher about what I learned at university. I appreciate you! Thank you!
I'm getting a job as a substitute teacher soon, and I want to be able to help U.S. government students (should I sub that subject) with their work!..... Fun fact about me: my U.S. government teacher inspired me to major in political science. My government teacher went on to run for office, and I voted for him as an absentee voter whilst I served in the Marines. Oorah! Teachers have a large influence on a student's 😂life. Keep it up, Mr. Beat!
as a brazilian I've never known much about American presidents (and never thought I even would) but your videos are very interesting and turns out American history isn't as boring as it seems to be... the perfect balance between educational, well made and your sarcastic sense of humor makes your videos stand out
love from 🇧🇷
American history and history in general for that matter has always intrigued me, but learning the dark side of American history is truly fascinating, because you expect some bad things but once you dive in the US has done some truly reprehensible actions.
@@djLagwayEnjoyer yeah if you dive into any country they have the same reprehensible actions and some great actions.
Tirando o fato dos cara historicamente usar o Brasil de pós colônia vdd é bem educativo
Sempre tem um br perdido pela net kkkkkk
I think the doctrinal nature of required American history classes in the US, public school grades 5, 8, and 11, are part of what has always driven me to learn about the many dark secrets that were withheld.
In my opinion, you have to give a President 20 years after his term is over to truly assess it. What might seem like a mistake by W. Bush, Obama, or Trump might not seem a big deal compared to another mistake made.
That's always a valid perception, I think, with maybe an exception here or there for truly egregious mistakes.
True, especially since we don't really know the truth about things due to heat and controversy
I think bush’s is gonna be safe for a long time. The Iraq war was his worst
George bush and Obama were funded by crime syndicates. Trump is corrupt but please do some research he is not what the media says he is. The media has ruined a great opportunity of coming together over a very middle of the ground president.
@@throatwobblermangrove8510 A great example is Truman. Today many historians consider him a better President than he was thought of while he was living (died around 1971 or so). I’m so/so on his legacy myself. While I think he made the correct decision in ending World War II quickly, some of his Cold War policies led to the Korean War and Vietnam War.
You’re a fantastic educator, whatever district employs you is extremely lucky to have a teacher of such caliber!
*These historical mistakes truly show the enormous weight of being the head of the US government. Every action is written down. Great analysis Mr Beat!*
I really enjoyed this video but I have to say that Ronald Reagan's biggest mistake was not retaliating against Iran in 1983 when Iran supported financed the suicide attack on the Marines on October 24th 1983 that led to the death of 241 Marines. A little shadowy group known as Islamic jihad or later on will be changed to Hezbollah Funded by Iran would never be punished. That was one incident that led to Osama bin Laden later saying America was a paper tiger
Thank you for mentioning the war on drugs, that has been possibly one of the most detrimental mistakes in terms of cost and impact imo. The amount of misinformation that has been spread about drugs and drug use because of it has been insane, and I'd say it has set us back decades in mental health research and policy.
"set us decades back"
basically everything to do with Nixon lol
Totally agree.
As well as lead to more powerfull cartells around the world.
Because the drug problems have been solved and we no longer have to concern ourselves with the impact on society? Yeah, right…. Got it 😣😣😟
so basically people hitting rock bottom with hard drugs and messing up their lives and not to mention, messing up other people around them's lives is something you want to see?
"What are you in here for?"
"I sung a song"
While I don’t particularly like Trump I must disagree with you on the 2020 election especially now that the 2024 election has concluded with all states accounted for. If you look at charts from 2011, 2016, 2020, and now 2024 there were around 20 million more votes counted in the 2020 election than in all of the other elections including 2016 which saw record high voter turnout. That paired with the video footage I and millions of other Americans saw on more conservative media sites of pollers pulling out massive boxes out from under tables on election night of 2020 during late night shift changes in Pennsylvania, (which also saw an abnormally high ballot rate) would lead the average person to reasonably suspect some type of foul play; to which the burden of proof to show the election was fair and free falls on the government. I as well as millions of other Americans felt the “investigation” that was done was half hearted at best, especially when you compare it to all the investigations and man power the government put into the Trump trials. I’d argue that the possibility of election fraud is as big if not bigger than the question of how Trump paid people off. All this to say that election fraud couldn’t be ruled out and I’m not even a Trumper. Now my alternative to your choice would be how Trump handled the COVID situation towards the end of his presidency. He and his administration were the ones who were responsible for the calling of lockdowns, and that precedent allowed for the states to “kinda run with it”. That paired with the fact that his administration was not adequately prepared for the health crisis because they had moved money elsewhere, compounded the severity of the outbreak initially leading to longer lockdowns and the mandate of masks in public places; even after it was found that the efficacy of masks were almost nonexistent unless it was you who were sick and even then the cheap cloth masks that everyone wore couldn’t even stop sneeze droplets. By then end of Trumps first term almost 351,000 Americans died of Covid and though there were a few things out of Trumps control, his slow and inadequate reaction compounded and lead to those deaths as well as set into motion more deaths that followed into Biden term. Though Biden’s handling of the Covid crisis is whole other topic. And this doesn’t even touch on the mental health crisis we had because of the lockdowns.
Excuse my run on sentences and grammatical errors. Writing a comment like this on a phone is not very easy.
I come from a Panamanian family and Manuel Noriega was a monster. My older relatives remembered the horror of martial law and were more than happy to be rid of him. I wouldn't classify "Operation Just Cause" as a mistake at all. It's one of the few things that the US did that actually helped Latin America.
I agree! I evn remember at the time how some Liberals were even proud of what the country had done, it really did deserve the name "Just Cause" -- a wonderful yet extremely rare example of our armed forces being used to restore the democratically elected legitimate ruler to the people -- instead of deposing the legitimate rule like we did in so many other countries!
I hate us interventionism with passion, 99% of the time is immoral imperialism to bully countries and peoples for their one-sided economic and political unjust gains, but getting rid of Noriega is the exception that makes the rule. Two very important things should be added though:
1) When it comes to bringing Ortega's dictatorship to the edge, credit and glory must be given to Hugo Spadafora. Indeed, the military invasion only happened right after he was assassinated. A one-in-a-trillion history changing hero.
2) The US has a lot to blame for Noriega's dictatorship to have ever been in place in the first place. It is no secret that pretty much all dictatorships in Latin America and the Caribbean were either put there or strongly supported by the US, especially after what happened in Cuba and later Nicaragua. Same applies in Panama. They propped up Noriega and have blood in their hands. It is a good thing Just Cause happened but the decades if horror could instead have been avoided.
He was a monster and we (the US) put him in charge. This is so common that one could argue putting the very worst dictators in charge of nice places (especially those countries in "our hemisphere") is our government's main hobby.
They put him there in the first place 💀then took him out when he decided to turn on them
I mean, as people have said before, operation just cause was not a mistake, but all the movements done by the US that helped him get into power were surely a mistake
It's a vaguely sickening comfort knowing the world has always been like this, but damned is it frustrating. Disillusionment is a bitch, but a necessary reality check all the same.
Thank you for a great video, sir 🙏
not always. just since the invention of agriculture about 12,000 yrs ago. Anatomically modern humans lived in small egalitarian (even inclusive of women and children) bands of hunter gatherers without property or hierachy for 150,000 yrs.
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True, but I do think life has, despite these setbacks, continuously gotten better as time marched forward.
@Aro9313 for those of us white straight males in 1st world countries, definitely 👀
I would have also talked about the aids crisis with Reagan. While Reaganomics certainly impacted more people overall, I feel like the aids crisis was bad enough to have been a dishonorable mention
It was impactful, just not as negatively as aids
Good point, but trickle down economics was and still is terrible!!! He should have used this word to describe it, but he did not. The Republican party is still hung up on this. They still want to give tax cuts to the rich ad nauseum!!!
Today liberals push the gay lifestyle.
There are so many truly awful things to choose from that picking just one as The Worst is really impossible. Shredding The Constitution, especially the 4th amendment, to rationalize creating the domestic police state is another strong candidate for The Worst.
Mr. Beat also gave Bush 41 a pass on his many crimes.
Regan was a fool, a jellybean eating racist
I love your channel. It is filling out my reading/watching videos of every President
Regarding your pick for Washington, I agree that it would’ve been noble had he set an example and freed his slaves, but I don’t think it would’ve had the effect on the rest of the country. Most southern farmers, even despite Washington being a unifying figure, likely would’ve disregarded it since their economy still relied on slave labor. Obviously not to defend it, but to put it into perspective. Great video as always, Mr. Beat!!
Really fair point! I tend to overestimate his influence.
@@iammrbeat I do kinda wonder if Washington had been more vocal about slavery how much of an effect it would have. You said that he warned against political parties citing it would divide the nation, but we kept them anyway. I wonder why?
@@alex_flamer Tribalism is why. There's a natural desire in most people to side with a team. As for the slavery thing, Washington could have been as vocal about ending it as he wanted, it still wouldn't change the minds of those relying on slave labor to hold up their economy.
@@switchp8286 but it wasn’t tribalism. It was literally the rich people’s greed. But it is funny how y’all use tribalism as a scapegoat. Even the tribes in Africa didn’t treat their slaves as harshly as the Europeans/Asians(this include Arabs and you decide whatever continent they are on)
I think it's easy for many people to mistakenly view Washington as an omnipotent force who could compel anyone around him to agree on the right decision for any issue, even slavery. That's the cost of idolizing him as the "perfect" founding father.
I think a lot of presidents' biggest mistakes were things that took so long to see the consequences of that someone else got the blame, especially if it had to do with foreign policy or something else boring that most voters don't pay attention to.
Yes, some people still think that Reagan was a great president who really helped the economy, when in retrospect his administration did so much to hurt so many people. We had to wait to realize that the trickle down was miniscule. We'll have to wait to see all the good results from the Biden administration, but some people just don't understand the concept of time, and the ship of state doesn't turn on a dime.
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Yeah that definitely adds up. Wasn’t the bay of pigs invasion basically entirely planned before Kennedy was elected, and the major decision he mad towards it was actually to decrease direct involvement with it?
Like Biden withdrawing the troops. Someone just had to cop that terrible hand of cards eventually
Mr beat is probably one of the most educated ppl on TH-cam.....you can learn alot from someone that tells you good and bad things from both sides and not just one.....imho of course.
I appreciate that!
Mr. Beat is among the most educated. Vs
The greedy a$$hole Alex Jones is among the most uneducated.
Yea when it comes to American history and politics he’s definitely my go to. I disagree with him on a lot of issues but he’s very objective which I like.
@@waynejohnson1786 I'm wondering what it's saying about a person understands the source of information as being objective but then also in the same sentence says how often they are in disagreement with that objective source. Hey bro, at least I appreciate the honesty.
@Andrew_koala OH SHIT man you are absolutely right, I don't know how I could possibly have forgotten that pointing out a typo in a sentence on a youtube comment once is exactly the same as having any sort of valid counter argument. Damn, I always seem to forget that, it's like, why would anyone ever even bother to come up with something interesting or insightful to add to anything, that's for morons. It's just so much easier to find some sort of completely inconsequential detail and instead point it out using pseudo intellectual ramblings in a desperate effort to present yourself as being mommy's very smart young man. She's so proud of you by the way. It's just so obvious to me now, accidentally not hitting the spacebar in a sentence on a youtube comment that one time is just proof that I need to read more books.
I hope one day I'll be as smart as you clearly are. I'll start looking for typos in all the ideas that I don't like because I'm clearly too much of a brain dead moron to think of anything else. Thanks friend, through your superior intellect and vast reasoning skills I've learned that one day, if perhaps I starve my brain stem of oxygen for a sufficient amount of time, I'll enter a vegetative state being kept alive by machines and hoses and then I will truly be on my journey to have the same level of cognitive function as you clearly do.
I started watching your videos and its very entertaining and it keeps me informed about the past
Learned about your channel because of Chris from Vlogging through History and wow, I'm addicted to your channel also now. Love all your material on Presidents which seems to be a lot of your stuff. Can't wait to binge all of it! Thanks for keeping me interested in learning.
I remember growing up as a kid and how the idea of wanting to be the president was fun. As an adult, I realize now how you must prepare for the inevitable, where you figuratively have blood on your hands or impact the lives of so many human beings.
Especially in the UK/USA
Cost of the empire
it seems the president only seems to exist as a PR scapegoat for the rest of the deep state to hide behind while not really having that much say in how things are run.
Kinda like Biden having blood on his hands for the murders done by Illegals in the US by letting in millions of unvetted criminals.
Great video. I'm now a proud subscriber. Keep these bangers coming, broski
I can’t wait to watch this when I have time to settle down and relax!!! I loved your biggest presidential accomplishments video and was hoping you’d make another video on their biggest mistakes.
Also wanna thank you for these videos Mr. Beat. I’ve been watching them for quite some time now and your videos have reignited my interest in American politics. Your Supreme Court Briefs series also truly inspired me to study law and politics. I actually just switched my major from biology to political science because of my newfound interest. Thanks Mr. Beat :)
Holy moly! This amazes me. I am honored and filled with joy after reading this. Thanks for sharing this, and good luck to you in your newfound field of study. You're gonna love it!
@@iammrbeat Hi MrBeat Can you make a video discussing about the most charismatic or skilled orators among US presidents in history?
Major props for calling out Nixon on the “war” on drugs. I didn’t expect that. It is one of the biggest wastes of human lives and money in American history. The moralism over drug use is hardcore hypocrisy and has no place in our legal system.
take an econ course and learn about externalities and public good. with your logic spending money on forced education is a waste and moralism.
Nixons biggest mistake is making friends with a pedopphile who likes 14 year old girls as a 68 year old man who was responsible of 50-60 million people deaths and helping the korean and vietnam wars sacrificing military soldiers unnecessarily. Mao is the worst dictator in human recorded history.
Although Nixon is seen as a centrist, the culture wars he started helped Reagan and Gingrich build today's pseudo-conservative "Own the libs" Republican machine . . . all as a result of one man's obsession with the presidency 😭
a "war on drugs" isn't exactly bad and is good when done right.
The problem with Nixon's war is that he basically targeted drugs that weren't really all that bad.
If he concentrated more on the real dangerous ones like cocaine, heroin and the other super shhtty ones and then make weed and shrooms as "controlled" products meaning they're legal but just controlled properly and only be sold by real professionals like doctors then it would have been all right
@@dickmelsonlupot7697 The war on drugs was and is primarily waged against users. Locking people up, that is punishing people, for using drugs is fundamentally ridiculous, counterproductive, and cruel. Drug use is not a moral or criminal failing, it is a mental health issue. Our “criminal justice” system is rooted in centuries-old English law which is wholly unequipped to ethically or effectively deal with drugs or any other “antisocial” behavior rooted in mental health or poverty. In 500 years, the criminal justice system of today will be looked at as little more sensible than the trials by ordeal of the Middle Ages.
Clinton has also apologized for signing the Defense of Marriage Act, the anti-gay marriage bill, which it doesn't seem like he ever believed in and did simply to signal to voters he was "moderate" on social issues.
I didn't know this! And thanks for bringing that horrible law up, too, J.J. That should have been another honorable mention. Dang, Clinton really signed some bad laws. lol
@@iammrbeatyeah, Clinton really did, but I don’t think he ever did it because he wanted to, but to appeal to republicans since they took over congress. Kind of like Obama during his later years of presidency. Both had to keep the country moving I suppose.
@@nprnilk Clinton played politics very cynically at times. If he thought he could get benefit by throwing some group under the bus he would. If he thought he could get benefit by promoting the interests of that group, he would. Clinton appointed several openly gay people to his administration, which was historic, but then also pandered to homophobia when that was the way the winds were blowing.
If I remember correctly, he signed it in order to shut down the ravening of Congressional bigots for as long as he could, because they insisted on having something and what they really wanted would have been worse. Same reason why he signed Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
@@JJMcCullough Politics are very cynical. He was a pure political animal once the congress switched in 94 to Gingrich he had to play 3 dimensional chess. Do you have any idea the scope and magnitude of what was hunting for him every day? They had a special prosecutor with absolutely no boundaries trying to dig up illegal activities nearly his entire time in office. First it was travel gate, then whitewater for 7 years - Trump says witchhunt - he had nothing like Clinton and let's be clear in Trumps case there is criminal activity, obstruction at almost every turn.
The whole making up fake news being illegal is just so argumentative because so many people argue on what "fake news" is
The treatment of Filipinos is a part of American history that is rarely mentioned. Thanks for including it here.
He may miss some stuff, and the humor is a bit corny - but I can truly appreciate the objective approach he has with these videos - especially in such a polarized, partisan time/status quo that we live in
He honestly feels like a real teacher
@@jazzercise300 He is
Hes Def not Objective 100% of the time, when it comes to modern politics his bias torwards the left comes through more and more. Im sure as we gain distance he will become more objective on current issues in the future
@cirrus1682 exactly what I was going to say, there were so many mistakes that were just immigration reform acts and he made it seem like that is the most evil thing in the world.
Yeah I don't always find it funny but it's endearing
Regarding Vietnam, I’ve read that distrust in government started heavily at this point and has never been right since then. I didn’t realize until a few years ago how damaging Vietnam was for the US in terms of trust in government and what not.
The distrust in the federal government started when JFK was slaughtered by his own government.
It made your closest friends and allies cringe at being a NATO partner, trade partner..etc. The Good 1st world does not have the resources to stop America's once in every generation .. war on some 3rd world people with just awful optics.. optics of real atrocities. We friends want to think of the USA as anti-atrocity. Abu Ghraib huh? PM Blair ... the disgrace of the Labour Party. When America builds a coalition to take on a foreign power, check who signs on in each case. Canada fought in Korea... NOT Vietnam. Allies supported a war on Bin Laden.. where journalists on the ground outnumbered the troops assaulting his "lair". Friends supported the war on Iraq when Saddem made a sovereign UN state disappear. They did not show up for Round two, the revenge tour.
100%. I remember a great uncle who served in Vietnam telling me that he was “the last American generation to have ever trusted their government”.
Vietnam but even moreso Watetgate.
A mix of things actually. The assassination of JFK, Nam, Watergate and the rampant ascension of power of the CIA made that americans felt watched all the time, and as the government distrusted its population, the population started to resent and distrust the government. Who would've thought that spying on everyone would get everyone mad at you?
Really should've made a firm distinction between "mistakes" and "shitty thing they did intentionally"
To be fair, Biden is an old man with dementia. I don’t think he’s even aware of the bad choices he’s made
The great thing about Mr. Beats channel is you can always count on him to extensively research topics and find things you’ve never heard of before. It definitely makes the viewing experience much better and is definitely a factor as to why he’s one of my favorite history channels
Agreed.
Xenophobia isn't a fear of the Chinese specifically. It's fear of people who are different. For example, a lot of xenophobics get really on edge by people in their community on the autism spectrum, even though they otherwise qualify for being part of the community that the xenophobic trusts.
I mean, I'm autistic, and even I don't trust most autists, because they treat me worse than 90% of people
Pretty sure he was joking there lol
Later in the video he mentions xenophobia again, but in a wider context
I think he was making a joke, most people know Xenophobia isn't a fear of the Chinese specifically. 🤣
@@ahmedhussein1694 I think he said "Sinophobia". Which would be the term for a fear of the Chinese.
I wanna just say kudos to you, you weren't afraid to tell it like it is and criticize EVERY president regardless which party they were from. Too many people these days tend to say "Politicians from my party are all good while politicians from the other party are all corrupt to the core." And if I ever become president, I'm sure you will criticize me too and I am there for it. God bless the first amendment.
Well he was wrong about the central bank stuff 07:51. While it is true that most economists agree that central bank prevent market crashes, the same economists are also on the government dole. Basically they are paid to cheer the central bank and the United States Federal reyhas thousands of economists on their payroll as consultants. Now why would they risk fame and fortune when it is lucrative to lie in favor of the central bank?
I say we do away with both parties
@@holdmybeer123that creates a conflict of interest, yeah, but it doesn't make them wrong about it.
@@maxi1ification True, but it is well known that government economists are basically cheer leaders for the ruling party. They don't see a recession until they are a year into it.
@@holdmybeer123 Similarly, people staunchly against central banks manage to have their own financial incentives to denounce such an institution. It's really hard to get objective assessments of things like that, sadly.
New here 🙋♂️
Loved the video, I’m def looking into all these laws. Never was much of a history person but this video def peaked my interest.
In defense of Carter, I believe he did all he could do at that time. To quote Edward Grey, who wrote a book about US Presidents, “Although he has been heavily criticized for his handling of the crisis, few were prepared to say what they would have done in his place.”
Carter was definitely given a raw deal in many respects. Personally, I’d list his signing of the Airline Deregulation Act as his greatest mistake.
@@jabrokneetoeknee6448 I believe that was also cited as one of the causes for the airline chaos earlier this year but whatever source I got that from could be wrong.
@@wildfire9280 Indirectly, yes. The airline industry has substantially changed its business model since the deregulation act. During the "Golden Era of Flight" airlines made most of their revenue from the selling of seats... something which sounds like a given. But that drove up the prices for seats on high-demand flights. Oftentimes a passenger would find themselves paying more on a short NYC to DC flight compared to a much longer NYC to Austin flight. Airlines didn't like this model because it meant that long routes were often less profitable. Today, much of airline revenues come from contracts with big banks, credit card companies, car rental companies, Fortune 500 corporations, who pay the airline for the right to issue "rewards" like miles to their customers or employees. Airlines prefer this model, of course, because it guarantees a steady stream of revenue regardless how many actual seats are being sold per flight. The consequence of this is that air travel, a pretty essential service in the 21st century, has been turned into a liability for airlines. They will cut costs on flights anyway imaginable... even if it means selling fewer seats. The airline industry's reaction to the pandemic typified this, when instead of using COVID stimulus money to keep pilots on the payroll through the lockdowns, like the government expected them to do, the airlines instead persuaded many pilots to retire early with very generous packages, and used the rest of the money on executive bonuses, dividends, and stock buy-backs. Now demand has returned to pre-pandemic levels but now the airlines are understaffed!
For personal Christian reasons Jimmy allowed the sick Shah entry for treatment to the US when Iranians demanded he be sent back to them for trial. THAT was his biggest mistake. The Shah was going to die soon regardless and he deserved to be on trial anyway. Not getting their trial caused the 'not US hating anti-Shah' Iranians to turn into radical, US hating Jihadists.
Nope
Fun fact, I'm actually related to someone who survived the Bay of pigs, my great grandfather. Sadly he passed away after the event, but he was one of the few that avoided capture and lived
no one asked😮
@@sogga_fan it’s literally a cool fact
@@sogga_fan I don’t understand the mindset of someone being rude with a complete stranger right off the bat. Sure it might make your ego feel a bit better if you’re that kind of person but you just end up antagonizing everyone else by pointlessly being rude. Just be nice, y’all
@@Chadius_Thundercock hi
@@sogga_fan hello
I am halfway through this and love history, man! You are killing it Mr. Beat!
Thank you for being unbiased in your video :)
Thanks for calling Roosevelt’s concentration camps, concentration camps. One thing of note is that some of the men that were recruited in these concentration camps to fight in World War II were some of the most decorated soldiers of World War II, and as a unit I think nobody came close to them in valor.
The 442nd Regimental Combat Team. I think it was the most decorated unit in WW2.
I disagree. Not that the camps weren't a terrible decision, but holy shit y'all underestimate how horrid concentration camps are. Things designed to slowly kill the inhabitants after extracting all the labor possible. Compared, Japanese internment camps were while still bad, not nearly close to German concentration camls
@@chrischeng9145 I agree that the nazi concentration camps were horrific and beyond comprehension for the misery that they caused. To compare one evil to another is extremely difficult. Some people refer to the Nazi concentration camps as death camps which they were and Roosevelt’s camps were not death camps but they were places where people that the government wanted to concentrate people. I know people who were related to the people who were in those camps and served with distinction and valor in World War II. I believe we must acknowledge the past mistakes if we are ever to learn how to create a truly great country. Roosevelt did many great things and he did some very bad things most presidents fall into that category. We must learn from our mistakes and some mistakes. Hopefully we will never make again.
@@diogenes34 that I agree with wholeheartedly. Still terrible but not at the level of Germany
My college thesis was, "Japanese American Atitudes towards their Interment". My professor was stunned that none of his students ever wrote on that. I remember my high school history teacher explained how wrong the intermnet was but in retrospect how many Japanese-American lives were saved [from murder] as the American body-count rose in the Pacific. He did not say "murder" but we all understood what he meant.
I like how you put in the "Philippine American War" as Mckinley's greatest mistake. As a Filipino High Schooler in Grade 7 in the Philippines, I learned about the Philippine American War in our Grade 6 Araling Panlipunan Class (It's our social studies/history subject) so for you to put it in the video made me feel more nationalism in me as a Filipino. Thank you, Mr. Beat for putting in the war that may have devastated my country, but a great way to educate people about the independence we Filipinos were fighting for.
Love from iraq bro
I as an American did not even know this WAR had happened a whole war Rip that Bandaid off American "Education"
As an American, that war is utterly disgusting and shameful.
No one cares what you are
@@balabanasireti you're just a d bag
Great that you weren't afraid to call out a president's errors regardless of party.
Imagine having your biggest mistake being trusting a doctor 😂
I'm weird, but I also loved my AP US History class. I feel like I'm back in that class with Mr. Beat. I appreciate how much scholarship he puts into his videos.
Why did you say "I'm weird" at the beginning of that? You think you're weird cause you enjoyed learning?
For a while, I thought you were going to say the biggest mistake Taft made as President was getting stuck in that bathtub one time.
Thanks for the video! My big takeaways:
1) Holy heck the U.S. has done some messed-up stuff.
2) Oh! That’s right Warren Harding was ALSO a president
Warren **G* Harding. It's like you've never even played Lollipop Chainsaw!
“I was never fit for office and should have never been here”
funny how the first several presidents were like "yeah slavery is bad... but like free labor is REEEALLY cool for us right now so uhhh keep it going"
Slavery isn't "free labor". Being a volunteer is.
Because Slavery was normal back then if you were against Slavery you would instantly divide your voting base.
This is a much better way to learn the presidents and an overview of US history than I got in middle and high school. Everything was so segmented, it was hard to see the interconnections. I would prefer to start from this high level look at everything and then dig into all that was going on and the context around things.
Hey Mr. Beat, i just want to say thank you for your amazing content. I am a huge fan of your channel! You and Vlogging Through History are 2 of some of the major reasons why I am currently majoring in history and working towards becoming a history professor. God bless you and keep up the amazing work!
Thanks for sharing that, Bob. Best wishes as you pursue an extremely rewarding profession. You're going to love it!
@@iammrbeat Thank you so much!
Vlogging Through History 🔥
Who needs school when you have Mr. Beat
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Ford's biggest mistake?:
Telling a bankrupt New York City to "Go To Hell".
I STILL remember that newspaper front page in giant font on my classroom wall. And I've NEVER forgotten it.
Not only did Trump's false claims hurt american democracy, it also lead to other country leaders to question the electoral system of their country, like here in Brazil, where we had our own version of January 6 this year
Trump proved that anyone lucky enough to be born with charisma and massive generational wealth can overthrow democracy by impulsively saying dumb shit on Twitter
It should be questioned. Because contrary to what OP’s claims are, there is plenty of legitimate evidence of election fraud in the 2020 election.
So true. I hate what it has done to my country. He was and still is incredibly divisive.
And to a smaller extent Germany
Are you sure the events in Brazil wouldn’t have happened without Jan 6th? It’s not like people haven’t stormed government buildings before that, Americans weren’t the first.
Excellent! Thank-you Mr. Beat. As a 60 year old whose American History Class in High School was one of the most challenging classes I ever took - we had to read a book a week from biographies (Andrew Jackson, Eugene Debbs) to histories by Bruce Caton & Benjamin Quarels this is a reminder of what I learned. Thank-you again, I enjoy your site.
I have a gripe:
Washington NOT stepping up to take an action that he could have isn't technically a mistake that he made.
Well had he ended slavery, it would’ve stopped the huge divide the country had throughout the 1800s. Remember, he understood that slavery had to go, and even wanted to free his slaves after his death, but couldn’t free many of them because of Martha
Edit: Martha did free her slaves in 1800, however it was out of fear for her own life
@@legendarywiimaster the south still existed in 1790 it would have led much worse relations witht the southern states if not secession as soon as the country was formed
@@legendarywiimaster Guess we should blame Henry Ford for not putting airbags into the Model T? Hard to use 21st century standards on our ancestors.
@@eugenepiurkowski5439 I really hate this talking point of "you can't judge history by modern standards" when you very well can. Slavery has existed since the start of civilization, and still lasts to today. We've known it's one of the worst things you can inflict upon another individual for millennia. If slavery wasn't that bad to historical figures, *why* did they have to kidnap Africans and bring them across the Atlantic, just causing more trouble for themselves in the process? There are plenty of records of white American elites being abolitionists in the 18th, even the 17th, century. And just look at Phillis Wheatley and her contemporaries, for example. She was incredibly outspoken about her experience as an enslaved woman in the colonies, and she faced constant harassment from whites who refused her talent and humanity, because they didn't want to acknowledge that she is just like them. They felt guilt.
@eugenepiurkowski5439 You say this as if there were no abolitionists in Washington's time. Airbags were not invented yet, but abolitionism was well-known to educated people back then.
I have have to say, that I love how all of the legislatures thats passed these laws completely escape culpability. Literally hundreds of men, by way of majority in 2 separate legislative bodies, pass a law, but only the person who signs the law in accountable. How many of these laws could have withstood a veto, and how many couldn't? We have no clue, so just blame the one person. Legislatures tyrannize too!
You know, I didn't even catch this either until you said something. Excellent take.
Did you done on vice Presidents?!!! I love your channel ❤❤❤
1:10 George Washington
1:48 John Adams Jr
2:29 Thomas Jefferson
3:25 James Madison Jr
4:00 James Monroe
4:54 John Quincy Adams I
5:22 Andrew Jackson II
6:17 Martin Van Buren Sr
7:15 William Henry Harrison Sr
7:27 John Tyler IV
8:18 James Knox Polk
9:14 Zachary Taylor
10:01 Millard Fillmore
10:36 Franklin Kendrick Pierce Sr
11:15 James Buchanan Jr
11:53 Abraham Lincoln
12:25 Andrew Johnson Sr
13:03 Hiram Ulysses Simpson Grant Sr
13:55 Rutherford Birchard Hayes
14:29 James Abram Garfield
15:09 Chester Alan Arthur I
15:57 Stephen Grover Cleveland
16:33 Benjamin Harrison VIII
17:12 William McKinley Jr
18:11 Theodore Roosevelt II
19:15 William Howard Taft
19:49 Thomas Woodrow Wilson
20:46 Warren Gamaliel Harding
21:35 John Calvin Coolidge Jr
22:29 Herbert Clark Hoover Sr
23:20 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr
23:58 Harry Solomon Shipp Truman
25:09 Dwight David Eisenhower
26:26 John Fitzgerald Kennedy Sr
27:04 Lyndon Baines Johnson
27:50 Richard Milhous Nixon
29:29 Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr
29:54 James Earl Carter Jr
30:24 Ronald Wilson Reagan
31:28 George Herbert Walker Bush
31:59 William Jefferson Clinton
33:50 George Walker Bush
34:25 Barack Hussein Obama II
35:10 Donald John Trump Sr
36:19 Joseph Robinette Biden Jr
None of these dudes have original names 💀
You sir are a hero
Thanks for making another amazing President video, Mr. Beat! It was really well made and you have a wonderful way of explaining things! Love your work!
Thank you so much!
Well done Mr. Beat, another great and well made video! I chose my major, american studies, because of your videos. As a European, they really got me into american history and the english language itself, so now I'm studying english lingusitics and american studies. I'm fascinated by your political history and how different it is from ours. Thanks again, keep up the good work!
Woahness! This is awesome! What country are you from? I will be in the UK in May.
@@iammrbeat Hungary, I want to visit the UK too at one point, but I'm too poor now xd Inflation is above 25%, food prices have increased almost 50% since last year... Can't afford a trip anytime soon :/
@@iammrbeat Any particular reason you're visiting or just vacation? 🇬🇧
Just found your channel.. Really enjoying it and just subscribe
Great content Mr. Beat - glad to see you making content full time and achieving your goals - you were my favorite teacher!
Thank you so much for the content that you make, I live in Texas and to say our education system is failing teaching us accurately about civics would be beyond an understatement. Like it's so bad that I recently discovered that my old Texas History Teacher (who refused to acknowledge that slavery was a factor in the civil war) was recently arrested for being a jan 6 rioter. I feel bad for my peers getting robbed of such important information, and with recent political stunts by governors like Abbott and Desantis, im glad your channel is helping to mitigate the issue of inaccessible civics content.
The "stunts" from Abbott and DeSantis are legitimate moves. Students don't need to be pushed false things like prison = slavery, there's more than 2 genders, and a black guy invented the light bulb.
It's not just Texas its all America... I live in California. That should say enough.
So awful - good for you for having the interest to discover some actual history . And despite what those governors want to tell you - no slavery was not a state sponsored jobs training program.
Great video Mr. Beat, you should do one on the post presidency life and achievements of every U.S. president
I love this suggestion, and thank you!
Jimmy Carter's time to shine.
@@iammrbeat can’t wait for the 10 seconds spent on Polk 😂
@@Sugarman96 Harrison’s, Taylor’s, Lincoln’s, Garfield’s, McKinley’s, Harding’s, FDRs and Kennedy’s time to shine, nothing bad to say about their post presidencies 😂
Isnt it mostly golf?
Trump messed up with the COVID Crisis which tanked the overall economy
For real most republican governors took a more moderate approach. Like the governors os Ohio ,Alabama and Arkansas all had good Covid policy and he should’ve copied them.
@@blakekaveny Desantis abandoned Tallahassee to the fate of Democrat oppression during Covid.
@@k.simmons862 How? He followed the "experts" who had no clue what they were talking about!
Wrong!