Club Of 1-Term Presidents Awaits Its Reluctant New Member: Trump
Trump joins a subset of former presidents who were denied a second term by the voters. For any public figure, that sort of hired-and-fired rejection might be purgatory. For Trump, it might be worse.
After a lifetime of membership in exclusive clubs, President Trump is about to join one against his will.
It is the club of one-term presidents.
There is surely no dishonor in serving a single term in the nation's highest office. Trump will bring to 23 the number of presidents who had the job for just four years or fewer, so the club includes about half of all those who have taken the oath. Five presidents died while in their first term (two by assassination). Several who stepped in for one of these fallen presidents completed the remainder of that term and left.
But Trump joins a subset within the club — that of presidents who were elected to one term of their own but were denied a second by the voters. For any public figure, that sort of
