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At a Glance

Every metric on this site, every president, in one grid. Each tile is shaded by where that president stands on that row, and links to the full chart. This is deliberately not a single best-to-worst score: many of these measures are volume or process, not good or bad, and collapsing them into one number would hide exactly the judgment calls this site tries to make visible. Read it as a map, not a verdict.

concerning   favorable   volume / process (not scored)   ● the standout. Darker = more extreme within that row.

How often each is the outlier

Counting the distinct areas where each president is the numeric standout, split by the reading. The seven ways money reached the president (net worth, foreign funds, stock trades, crypto, media settlements, public money at his properties, and institutions paying under pressure) are one underlying concern (self-dealing) and are counted once here, not seven times; the grid below still shows all of them. Society-wide trajectory rows are scored to no one. Shown in order of term, not ranked. Trump II still leads because the self-dealing and norm-breaking measures have no modern precedent, and his is a partial term still generating firsts: grouping the receipts lowers the number without changing the shape.

Clinton
3 favorable · 2 context
Bush
1 concern · 1 favorable · 2 context
Obama
2 concern · 2 context
Trump I
1 context
Biden
2 concern · 1 favorable · 1 context
Trump II
14 concern · 1 favorable · 4 context
MetricClintonBushObamaTrump IBidenTrump II
Money & self-dealing
Net-worth change in officecontext · · · ·
Foreign-government money↑ concern
Individual stock trades↑ concern
Income from own financial products in office↑ concern
Media settlements to the president↑ concern
Public money at own properties↑ concern
Institutions that paid under pressure↑ concern
Executive power
Executive orders per yearcontext
Signing-statement objectionscontext
National emergencies declaredcontext
Surveillance-court orderscontext
Covert drone strikes↑ concern
Watchdogs removed↑ concern
Troops into U.S. cities↑ concern
Family in official roles↑ concern
Historical records opened↓ favorable
Solo press conferences per yeardiverging
Force without Congresscontext
Law & courts
Indictments of named critics↑ concern
Leak & whistleblower prosecutions↑ concern
Personal convictions & civil findings↑ concern
Own officials criminally convicted↑ concern
Business & charity legal findings↑ concern
Adjudicated sexual-abuse liability↑ concern
Transparency norms metdiverging
Full pardons of the convictedcontext
Judges confirmedcontext
Vetoes issuedcontext
Government-shutdown dayscontext
Nationwide injunctions drawncontext ·
Fact-checked false claimscontext · · · ·
Business bankruptcies (lifetime)context
Economy & immigration
Real GDP growth↓ favorable
Real stock-market returndiverging
Unemployment change over termdiverging
Inflation↑ concern
Federal deficitcontext
Legal immigrationcontext
Formal deportations per yearcontext ·
Federal debt added (real)context
Net jobs added per term↓ favorable
Public protections
EPA enforcement of pollutersdiverging
Workplace-safety inspectorsdiverging
Consumer-finance enforcementdiverging · ·
Food-safety regulation (net)↑ concern · · · · ·
Public well-being
Medical research grants terminated↑ concern
Uninsured ratediverging
Measles (worst year)↑ concern
Trajectory & trends over time
Border crossingscontext
Murder ratecontext
Crude oil outputcontext
Goods trade deficitcontext
Fine-particle pollutioncontext
Wind + solar sharecontext ·
Democracy scorecontext ·
Home price to incomecontext
Congressional polarizationcontext
Child povertycontext · ·
Regulatory volumecontext
Read the coloring as one lens, not the truth. The tiles are shaded from each chart's real values, but the direction (what counts as concerning versus favorable) is a public-interest and democratic-norms reading, and reasonable people weigh these differently. Volume-and-process rows (executive orders, vetoes, surveillance orders, emergencies, pardons, deportations, immigration levels) are shown grey and not scored good or bad, because more or fewer is not inherently better. Economic rows are outcomes shaped by the business cycle, the Federal Reserve, and Congress far more than by the president. Every figure is a partial snapshot with its own caveats, which live on the individual chart. The Trajectory & trends rows are society-wide, so their tiles are shown grey and their per-term figures are a snapshot at each term's end (or term average), not a score of that president. Two charts are deliberately not in this grid because they have no honest per-president value: economic mobility (measured by 1940–1984 birth cohort) and the revolving door (which has no fair single count); both are on the home page. Trump II is a partial term. Switch to “Just the standouts” to drop the direction entirely and see only who the outlier is.