Top 20 Embarrassing US Presidential Moments
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- Опубликовано: 27 июн 2024
- These embarrassing presidential moments are tough to stomach. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most questionable decisions and politically fraught moments that left permanent smears on the legacies of U.S. presidents. Our countdown of embarrassing U.S. presidential moments includes George W. Bush, Donald Trump, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and more! Which of these appalling moments left you shaking your head in disbelief? Let us know in the comments below.
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Do you think a moment from last night's presidential debate should have been included in some way, or too early to tell compared to the rest of the list? Let us know in the comments. Stay tuned for our list specifically on the first 2024 debate coming later today.
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@@WatchMojo I find this video reckless & unnecessary, especially during a political year, and I for one HATE Politics.
When Watch Mojo put No New Taxes in the thumbnail and didn't mention how Biden did a complete 180 on his promiss of not taxing the middle and lower class.
Honorable mention:
Joe Biden (2024 United States Presidential Debate)
Where is Biden's entire presidency in this video?
@@l-wolverine2211 right? And all the Olympic stuff during Olympic years, and all the Christmas stuff near december....you want this stuff when exactly?
When Bush Sr. said "No New Taxes" I heard "No Nude Texans" 🤣
Biden moment lol
You can literally slot yesterday's debate, in its entirety, in this list and nobody would object.
Agreed
Correct!
Facts! 😂😂😂
Yeah but I am sure the video was made, and being prepared for upload by the time the debate started.
For George HW Bush, he said "Read my lips" because he was going to be lying out his ass.
I blame the voters for rewarding such an irresponsible promise! (It's an example of the "rhetoric as policy" tendency that Bush's predecessor Reagan so appallingly epitomized!)
TRUTH!!! 😂
He wasn't lying. He said Know new taxes.
@@realRobertoPsycho 😁👏
Chill foo
When a politician says "no new taxes", you should immediately not vote for them
Same goes for tRUMP if you hear him still say the 2020 election was rigged, it 's a witchhunt don't vote for him.
Or you should pay more attention to politics. The only reason he was forced to add taxes was because of his predecessor. Good old Ronnie Reagan. Reagans tax cuts were too big to be sustained. Which is why Ronald is a saint and bush was not. In a nut shell Ronnie set up Bushes failure. people basked in the glory of Ronalds tax cuts and Bush Senior had to pay the bill.
When bush said no new taxes all I could think about was when on family guy they was screaming at Lois when she was mayor saying no new Taxes 😂
How can you tell when a politician is lying? His lips are moving.
God, help America…
If Trump goes to jail, then God will help turn Ameri-KKK-a back to America
Please take us back to post ww2
@jeremiasnolasco-uw2lt do u kno what it was like ww2? U may think the usa is in a bad period, but that cuz u watch 2 much drama filled news ch, intended for really old pp with their scare tactics. 😱
Whiskey still has a high tax on every sale, and ironically, it’s Washington state that has the highest 😂
Did I miss Woodrow Wilson playing birth of a nation at the White House? That is one of the most embarrassing presidential moments that I can think of.
Yeah but watch mojo wouldn't want people to think of democrats as racist. They are a leftist propaganda organization.
They put Wilson on the list for the Espionage Acts.
Trail of tears and Japanese internment were the worst. Nixon was just stupid to try to bug the dnc!
"Embarrassing" isn't the word I would use for genocide and internment.
George W Bush: "Mission accomplished."
But then the US still had to pacify Iraq for another 20 years thereafter.
I'm amazed it's only #20, it should be in the top 5.
@@colbystearns5238 Bush jr. was maybe in the bottom 5 of all Presidents. He put us nearly a Trillion in debt over an "incorrect" war, which accomplished nothing. His pathetic economic policies gave us the worst Recession in a century, making even Obama look brilliant. Obama's illegal tax on the Working Class that he ironically called the "Affordable Care Act" went on to turn the populace away from his party, opening the door to Trump. And here we are. . .
Honestly, Kennedy not sending in US military support was the right call. I think his action should be seen as heroic. Standing against the military-industrial complex. He was told if he refused to send in the US military that the plan would go ahead anyway, trying to pressure Kennedy into doing what they wanted done.
Yes, I am currently reading JFK And Unspeakable, what you just said is in that book
So that's why the US Government assassinated their own man ...because he wouldn't do what he was told to do? 🤔 Then they put the blame on Lee Harvey Oswald ... guess that's how the US Govt works: Do what WE say when WE say how WE say or else your azz is grass ⚰ ....
The trail of tears wasn’t embarrassing it was disgraceful and horrible
samething
I remember a Martha Stewart column on heirloom seeds that asked "Would you like to grow corn carried on the Trail of Tears?" (Tasteless!)
"Eh, no one is Perfect." - Cell
I like how the list is like "Immigrants were blamed for the great depression and deported illegally and a lot of them were actually US citizens" and the comments are like "biased"
Tells you where people really stand on things.
"Did you enjoy this video?"
No I did not
That's what I was about to post.
"Nope. I'm an American, and even knowing this shit already, I still felt quiet shamed. I further began feeling the unsettling certainty of disgust as bile began rising in my gorge."
Lol.. did you watch it?
Yes you did..
Checkmate..
I always put my exes in insane asylums
It's fun when you find a future ex there!
Haha
If any of this was a surprise to the viewer, you should have had a better history teacher in jr. high.
Well, not every viewer of this channel is an American. And for many of those, things in this video may be new and interesting. I can tell, even though I am not American, I still knew most of those, but not all. Especially things related to earlier US presidents were surprising to me. The whiskey tax most of them, I have to admit.
BTW, would you know all the scandals of British kings and queens? I've bet you wouldn't, right?
@@petrnovak7235 Actually, I knew a bit. I lived in Wales for a while a few years ago, and my girlfriend was a history major, so I learned a lot there.
Andrew Jackson
It's appalling what happened to the Native people of this country
They are owed soooooooo much
It needs to be recognized and dealt with.
Shame on the forefathers for their atrocities to humans
That's what happens being wrapped up in religious ferver and greed... I think I learned in school they blamed everything on a mandate from God to expand the country from ocean to ocean. Edit: I remember now "Manifest Destiny."
He was a great President.
Amen
@@httr94 based on what?
Don't coddle my people, it's because of liberals and Democrats a lot of my people would rather be drunk unemployed beggars blaming all their problems on people who haven't been alive for 200 years.....we need Marxism out of this country if you really want to help Natives like me
3:30 That was only the first half of that anti-Cleveland slogan. The full thing was "Ma, ma, where's my pa? Gone to the White House, ha ha ha!"
Nixon didn't know about Watergate till after it happened!
Timestamps if Watchmojo sees this for the next time they put chapters to skip to a certain time.
0:30 George W. Bush 20th
1:30 George Washington 19th
2:35 Grover Cleveland 18th
3:45 George H. W. Bush 17th
4:50 Thomas Jefferson 16th
5:50 Woodrow Wilson 15th
7:05 John Adams 14th
8:30 Andrew Johnson 13th
9:40 James Buchanan 12th
10:50 Warren G. Harding 11th
12:05 Donald Trump 10th
13:20 Bill Clinton 9th
14:25 John F. Kennedy 8th
15:40 Herbert Hoover 7th
16:50 Lyndon B. Johnson 6th
17:55 Ronald Reagan 5th
19:10 Franklin Pierce 4th
20:20 Richard Nixon 3rd
21:20 Franklin D. Roosevelt 2nd
22:50 Andrew Jackson 1st
WOW Andrew Jackson was a monster!
Yep. He sure was.
The comments here are pretty funny. Of all the egregious acts former 🇺🇸 presidents have committed, some are comparing a dismal debate to the Trail of Tears or the internment of Japanese heritage Americans. Please, can we all agree that stepping on your fellow countrymen is far worse than stepping on your own tongue?
They are idiots
Watchmojo got this video out fast after that disaster of a debate last night.
Right? I'm surprised Joe can even walk after that beating.
Hahahaha right!
@@Zetirix beep borp beep I see your chatGPT bot is working again
@@eric_welch Nah, no bot, just my eyes and my conscience.
@@Zetirix he had to be shown how to get off the stage
I dont remember any of these issues being taught in school. I just remember "the US is the greatest nation....". What was done to the Indigenous people is something we (the USA) criticize other countries for doing acting like we are so righteous. We need to own this truth and not repeat it.
21:45 FDR made order 66 😮. He’s the real life palpatene? 🫢
You beat me to it.😂😂😂😂
What does papatine mean?
Can pay and apologize to the Japanese people but not a single acknowledgment for our natives. Its the classic of all classics.
The trail of tears is definitely the worst thing America did.
Daaaamn Watchmojo. Y’all ruthless for this one. Lmao
how
They posted this in response to Bidens performance at the debate last night.
@@docmanhattan7675 and that a problem
@@jimbo9208 Jimbo you must be slow
@@SombraCheeks you don't need to harass others. It just makes you look childish
Poor old Jimmy Buchanan. The late Rene Auberjonois portrayed him in Raising Buchanan.
I agree. He really *was* a very ineffective and shortsighted president, but I don’t see why he always secures the #1 spot as Worst President Ever.
I think Andrew Johnson was really the worst one we ever had (prior to 2016), but I also think Warren Harding and Franklin Pierce lay some claim to the title as well. So we’ve already got four candidates for whom you could make a good argument that they were the worst. So I don’t see why Buchanan *always* gets selected as the #1 Worst Ever.
But that’s only the worst ever prior to 2016, anyway. It is indisputable that Donald Trump was the worst President in all of American history.
I don’t think James Buchanan or Andrew Johnson ever led any violent insurrections into the Capitol Building - you get my drift?
@@matthewgliatto7339 James Buchanan often seems to tie with his predecessor Franklin Pierce and Warren Harding as worst president 🤔
My grandmothers basically she was a maid was a Japanese woman named Masako Ichikwa. During World War II she was taken to one of those camps. My family did everything they could for her at the time. I’m pretty sure they got her out and sent her back to japan where she would be safe. I could be wrong as my grandmother was very young at the time when this happened and was told later on by her parents. I hope this woman lived a happy life as my grandmother talk very fondly about her. She didn’t remember much about her other than when she went to see her at the camps she would cry asking Masako when she was coming back home to them.
So the Afghan pullout is not in the top 20 most embarrassing moments for America? ….. ok, sureeeee 😂
My thoughts exactly! Not a SINGLE Biden “policy” is worthy of this list? The border? Inflation? Afghanistan? Literally get fucked watch mojo!
Why did America fight the Vietnam war?
The Vietnam war lasted 10 years and cost America 58,000 lives and over a trillion dollars(adjusted for inflation). It brought out a President, stirred social unrest, and ended in defeat. No one in hindsight believes fighting a losing war is ever worth the cost. Consequently the Vietnam War is usually written off as a colossal strategic blunder and a humanitarian disaster.
Yet historical appraisals might have been much different had the Vietnam war followed the pattern of the Korean War(1950-1953), which the United States fought for almost identical reasons: the defense of freedom in Asia. The US had military advisors in Vietnam during the 1950s but didn’t become involved in a major way until 1963. President JFK firmly believed in the domino effect. The foreign policy theory that vulnerable nations without help would fall, one after another, like dominoes, to external communist aggression.
JFK thus hoped to stop Soviet and Chinese backed communist invasions in a manner of President Harry S. Truman had in Korea by taking a stand in Vietnam. As with Korea, it was a war the United States did not seek, as with Korea, Vietnam presented no “imperial” advantages, no natural resources of any kind that the United States needed to protect or wish to obtain. As with Korea the aggressor was a communist government in the north intent on taking control of the south. And it’s military cross and internationally recognized in order to do so.
Following JFK’s assassination in November of 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson vastly escalated America’s role in 1964. But even as he did so Johnson prosecuted the war with deep ambivalence. Authorizing significantly more troops and money for the war but never pushing for total victory. In contrast the north Vietnamese never wavered. They ignored every one of Johnson’s many offers to negotiate a settlement.
By 1971, the war was at a stalemate. Neither side able to establish a clear advantage. The President Richard Nixon pursued a two prong strategy. To turn over combat operations to the south Vietnamese and to bomb north Vietnam. The effort brought the communist to Paris Peace Talks and by 1973 the North agreed to a general settlement. Establishing two autonomous Vietnamese nations. One communist, one non-communist in the manner of North and South Korea.
However the watergate scandal, the subsequent resignation of President Nixon, and the democrats sweeping congressional victory in the 1974 midterm election, all helped to convince the North Vietnamese that America would not enforce the peace agreement. They were right. Without US air support and material aid the South Vietnamese had no chance against the North. Well supplied by the Soviet Union, the Chinese, the communist gained full control of the country in April 1975.
The war proved far more costly than Korea because the geography and landscapes of Vietnam were far more conducive during operation. There were also far more restrictions placed on American commanders and during the Korean War. The United States in the 1960s was a far less conservative and cohesive country than America in the 1950s. Yet despite the long ordeal and terrible cost, South Vietnam was saved in 1973 only to be lost in 1975. The US defeat in Vietnam was a POLITICAL choice. Not a military necessity.
Had the US protected an independent but vulnerable South Vietnam in 1973 and 1974, that country would have most likely followed the model of South Korea. Millions of southeast Asians would not have become Boat people, and refugees, or been sent to the gulags and re-education camps. A viable US backed democratic Vietnam would have stabilized the region and almost certainly prevented the neighboring Cambodian genocide in which one-fifth of that country, 2 million people were slaughtered by its communist leadership. And much of the bitterness over the war on both sides of the American political spectrum still with us today would have vanished. And for the communist Vietnamese, the instigators and aggressors of the terrible conflict, what was it all for? Today ironically the Vietnamese government aspires to nothing more than the capitalist affluence. That it once reviled.
14:15 "STAIN?"....Ya'll knew what you were do Watch Mojo. LOL!
The explanation of the Trump felony conviction could not have been more inaccurate.
No Biden clips. Because of course no Biden clips.
but there was
Because it's too soon for Americans history
Because it's too soon for Americans history
@@jimbo9208I said Biden not Bush.
@@hollow2hollowifyBiden's failures are more significant.
Stopped watching when I saw comments were saying there were no Biden clips
I like that some of the choices on here are actually presidents who did a good job. Was not expecting to see George Washington who is revered as one of the greatest of all time
You could do 2,5 trump speech or interview and you'll have 20 moments right there
Take 30 mins of a biden speech and they could fill a hour video
or anytime bidens speaks since hes our current president and doesn't know whats going on half the time
They could have just shown Biden's performance from last night's debate, with him standing as if he were dead 😩😩, and this video would have gone on for a whole hour.
@@rwwilson21 One night compared to how many years of Trumps failures. You're making a fool of yourself
@@iaatg6296 what failures? A strong border? A better economy? Damn near stagnant inflation? This Native American made less money under Trump and still had more to spend.... Biden has been failing for four years straight, not just for one night. And this also coming from someone who wanted to vote for Bernie in 2016 but Democrats rigged the primaries for Hillary, and that's not even a conspiracy theory they literally admitted to doing it.
It's insane how Pierce can be a forgotten president when he pretty much lit the fuse on the American Civil War with the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
We've allowed our country to be destroyed from the inside but there wasn't really anything we could/can do.
Okay.Maybe the trail of tears deserves to be number one
Way to minimize the impact of this list by including Trump's indictment, anybody that has looked at -any- of that knows it was banana republic level stuff.
The problem with the Trump conviction on this list is its irrelevance. All the other 19 of the entries occurred while a president was in office. For Trump, it was a personal matter he was thrown into by scumbags. He hadn't been president for 3 and 1/2 years.
So this list is immediately invalid as it doesn’t include any Biden “highlights”. Seriously, that guy could fill a top 20 on his own, yet he’s completely left off…hmm, wonder why
you won this comment section 🤣
Biden should be on this list too. The debate was a disaster for him
"The Scandal left a lasting stain on his legacy..." 14:16
2024 theme is the worst ever in everything.
This could be a top 100 most embarrassing Joe Biden moments.
A whole top 20 for Brandon.
My country's leadership also faces the same fate and even worse, our former leader almost cause the whole country's economy to face serious inflation.
Here's what's embarrassing, there were no moderators in last night's debate. (The people who were supposed to fact check everything and keep the candidates on track of the questions.) The whole night was just a he said/she said because of the lack of moderators.
Moderators are not supposed to fact check.
Moderators are not supposed to fact check. Last night was one of the best moderated debate we've seen in decades.
@justincredubil
No one fact checked anything, it was just a he said she said by an old man and a felon.
the most embarrassing president in americas history got left out? HOW?
If Biden loses the election, then yes, absolutely.
Only 20 is being extremely generous
America- the greatest Republic the world has ever known.
American history- trail of tears: please reconsider statement above
Interesting and informative
Bot #1
All 20 should be Biden clips.
Trump walking to Air Force One with Toilet Paper on his shoes. 😂
Wrong: toilet paper moving towards Air Force One with Trump attached.
😂 classic.
@@chillfluencertoilet paper is usually stuck to sh*t
"A lasting stain on his legacy"
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Sadly, many of these get glossed over in history classes and in the public memory. A perfect example of this is the tendency by conservatives to deify Ronald Reagan and liberals to do the same with JFK.
Why would people be for aliens 👽? How can we be sure that they want our best and not to destroy our planet?
Damn, we missed Grover “The Good”
This list is biased as hell!
Shoutout to Washington, PA, home of the Whiskey Rebellion!
"Embarrassing" is a bad descriptor. I don't agree with all of this list, but I think the point is to choose acts that go beyond embarrassing into shameful.
This could be a good Mr Beat video
your videos are really beautiful, that's great😉😉😉
Last night’s debate isn’t #1?
Ahead of genocide, impeachments, slavery, and a 34 time convicted felon that has, himself, been impeached twice? Sorry, no. Funny how you think it matters even slightly.
I feel like the Chinese exclusion act should be on this list as well. If the Mexican repatriation act did...
Why is Trump on this list for something that happened AFTER his presidency?
Embarrassing aka thing you guys don’t agree with🧌
Last night's debate" which I didn't even really watch, is not worthy of this list, but then neither are half of these selections. Jefferson's "embarrassment" for example, was merely a practical act in response to Great Britian's acts of piracy -- an internationally recognized act of terrorism. If Jefferson had done nothing at all, American trade [and therefore its economy, would have still suffered. neither was Washington's attempt to cover costs of War by enacting a liquor tax, an "embarrassment." It is the reaction of the people that is embarrassing to me. I mean, we were acting like Russians back then. . . .
The worst events, after the genocidal ones, were the two acts of sedition. Even George Bush the Lessor's Patriot Act [which you failed to mention] echoed these horrendous acts under Adams and Wilson. To tell an American that he/she cannot criticize is like a gag order. Imagine our founding fathers being told not to complain in the 1760's.
As for the slip-ups involving sexual encounters, well, hell, are these not men? Who can tell how it went down, and you could have mentioned Kennedy's trysts on THIS list.
Without watching the list…was it no democrats, or very very few democrats?
Clinton left a lasting stain on a dress as well.
During Clinton reign tho America gained the most amount of money during his term and 2 than any other president
I’m glad my boi teddy is not in this 😎
We need more Teddy's and less "Old men."
@@Zetirix hell yea brother/sister 😎 I’m NOT saying teddy is perfect 😐but he is the reason we have the protection of natural parks and the pure food and drug act 😐and teddy is he only president I can think of that actually took action to protect the environment it’s no wonder why people loved him 😅as I think he was elected 4 or 5 times until congress forced new presidents to only be elected 2 terms😐 I would not be surprised if trump were to destroy everything the other presidents built for 😐trump for slavery trump against gay and disability people trump against the environment if trump could genoside people I bet he would 😑
or coolidge,eisenhower and ford
@@raptorfromthe6ix833 you mean like Henry ford ? 🧐I don’t think he was a president 😐
@@jettmthebluedragon nah jerry fold the one who likes nachos and football
its kinda funny how us presidents do this
Biden’s most embarrassing moment is when he got elected
Big question, can US of A. now do better?
4:00 "Read my lips. No new taxes." The situation got worse. A USN&WR article argued that whoever was elected would have to raise taxes somehow to deal with the deficit. A week or two later, the magazine printed a letter from President Bush denying that he would ever have to do such a thing. Following his tax increase, he campaigned against Clinton: "Clinton raised taxes XXX number of times. Bush raised taxes only once." Each sentence was a whopper.
And somehow after all these years, we have even more taxes, and even more deficit...
@@Zetirix Bush Jr.'s tax cuts have a lot to do with today's debt problem!
@@Blaqjaqshellaq Imaging cutting spending to deal with the debt...
From number 10 to some of a few after that I knew of.
Ich bin ein Berliner J. F. K. (May his soul rest in peace)
I guess crapping your britches in the presence of the Pope doesn’t qualify…
Every moment since Biden was installed in the presidency is an embarrassing moment but, of course, there’s none on this list video
Grover Cleveland was sexy AF
That's why he got a split term like he did. Cleveland rocks, didn't yall know?
Um..... o_0 u okay?
No Afghanistan but Vietnam ?
You could do a whole video for just Trump and Biden.
How is Joe Biden not on this list ?
This should just be a Biden montage
I think you made this video about 4 hours too soon.
No Obama and Biden 🤣🤡🤡
Abraham Lincoln and the Dakota 38?
19 are George Dubya
Only 10? He would demand to be at the top of the list.
Before even watching this I can guess it will lean one way, Biden won’t be on here and Trump will be high on this list.
Covering for Biden here
Why is the Afghanistan withdrawal not on here?!?!
We know why.
Afghanistan was gonna play out like that regardless whom ever was in office, like South Vietnam. You can’t build a nation that’s not really a nation (Afghanistan was built as a division between British India and Czar Russia).
WAY too early to include Trump on here. That verdict will be thrown out.
I don’t think most of these were embarrassing so much as controversial and career ending, but if you want an embarrassing one, maybe try the Afghanistan exit by the Biden administration, but that’s right, you probably won’t.