We asked experts to grade Trump's first year as a president. Here's what they said.

By Justin Vaughn and Brandon Rottinghaus January 19 at 6:00 AM

Just one year in, President Trump already has had a remarkable effect on the presidency — on the U.S. government’s tone and policies. So what would experts put on his report card? We’ve surveyed presidential experts in the past. Here’s what they said for year one of the Trump presidency.

How we did the research

We surveyed current and past members of the American Political Science Association’s Presidents and Executive Politics section on a variety of topics, asking for their assessments of Trump’s first year in office, both overall and on a few key dimensions of contemporary presidential leadership. The survey was conducted via Qualtrics and was live from Dec. 22, 2017, to Jan. 16, 2018. Of the 320 experts in presidential politics we invited to participate, we received grades back from 155. We then averaged the responses for a systematic assessment of the 45th president’s freshman year.

Other presidents have struggled during their first years in office; some notable examples include Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. But Trump’s evaluations still stand out as particularly critical. Experts graded Trump’s presidency as failing overall, although with more talent for some subjects than others. We asked respondents to select a grade A through F for each “course,” then translated these into a number (A=1, F=5) and averaged the scores.

We haven’t asked for similar grades in previous surveys, so we can’t compare these directly to expert assessments of other presidencies.

Legislative accomplishments: D-

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Foreign policy leadership: F

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Public communication: D

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Embodying institutional norms: F

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Overall presidential leadership: F

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