Republican · 2017–2021, 2025–
Donald Trump
Current president. Tax cuts and deregulation alongside tariffs, immigration restriction, and a personal executive style.
Donald Trump was president 2017–2021, 2025–. The party color on the chart is Republican. Early presidents are not forced into today’s party names. The placement note is: Current president. Tax cuts and deregulation alongside tariffs, immigration restriction, and a personal executive style.
The dot is economics +22 and authority +62. That is right of center on economics. The other axis sits toward authority. Color and place are allowed to disagree. Theodore Roosevelt sits left of Grover Cleveland on economics.
What was said, and what the administration did, are filed separately. Said: A wall, tax cuts, no more endless wars, and America First trade. Done: Taxes were cut and tariffs went up. The wall was partial. The first term avoided a new large war; the second term is in progress and should not be scored as finished. Where those two sentences pull apart, the dot follows the governing record, not the slogan.
The nearest other presidents on these two numbers are Andrew Jackson (1829–1837, +14 / +50) and John Adams (1797–1801, +20 / +40). A small distance can join people who would have disliked each other. The chart is a compression, not a claim that they were alike.
Presidents are not placed with the Voteview roll-call score used for the current Congress. Two axes cannot carry a war, a court, a tariff, and a civil-rights record as separate facts.