About POTUS Grades

POTUS Grades was created to evaluate U.S. presidential terms by outcomes instead of rhetoric, personality, or campaign promises. The intent is to keep the framework transparent and consistent: the same categories, the same weights, and the same scoring process across every term.

Rather than begin with broad labels, POTUS Grades shows measures people encounter directly: employment, prices, income, housing costs, healthcare prices, crime, deficits, debt, U.S. war deaths, global views of U.S. leadership, and presidential approval. Lawful immigration is also shown as context without assuming that a higher or lower number is inherently better.

What This Project Is Trying To Do

• Create a single scoreboard that can compare terms across parties and eras on common criteria.
• Use public data sources and a repeatable pipeline so the results can be audited.
• Put understandable raw outcomes ahead of the normalized score used to compare different units.

What This Project Is Not

• It is not a full judgment of every presidential decision, crisis, or historical context.
• It is not a claim that a president alone caused every outcome, or a substitute for qualitative history and constitutional analysis.
• It is not static: data revisions and methodological improvements can update scores over time.

The goal is practical: make presidential performance easier to compare, easier to discuss, and easier to challenge with evidence. If you want to see exactly how each score is calculated, review the Methodology page.