IMO, there are two parts to a president. One is the party part, where they come in and try to meet their campaign pledges. The other part is how they handle things in office. To me, being president is too big a job for one person, There is too much you need to know, nobody can keep up with it all. So they need to surround themselves with quality people, experts in their field, to advise and keep the president up to speed. The other is to stay above the fray, not to get involved in the minutia. To only speak when there is something important to say.
Obama was really good at this, and so was George HW Bush. Clinton loved the sound of his own voice a bit too much. It's hard to measure Dubya, he had 9/11 to deal with so he had to speak often, by TBH, his voice really annoyed me. But they all at least did have people who knew their jobs as their advisers. And this is why Trump is the worst. Said he was going to clean up the swamp, and brought in his kids and cronies into positions they were breathtakingly unsuited for (Omarosa, really?) and never, ever shuts up. If he would have handled himself presidentially, I would not dislike him as much as I do. But I didn't vote for him, and won't, because of the R party goals of increasing an already bloated military and giving huge tax breaks to people with more money than they will ever need while trying to cut retirement and social programs for regular people.
