July 26, 2026Methodology v2.4 · State metrics: 12 source systems, data through 2023–2025 by metric
Political Grades
government — just the stats

The Executive Branch

Donald Trump

National outcomes compiled July 26, 2026. Each number below is dated where it stands.

President of the United States · Republican. What follows is context, not a grade — the national numbers during Trump’s time in office, shown next to the median across OECD member states.

Why no overall grade?

We built a presidential grade and tested it. The only honest benchmark for a whole country — its own prior trajectory — turned out to be dominated by crisis timing: whoever inherits a bad year looks good, whoever inherits a good trend looks bad, regardless of what they did. A single ranking would measure luck, not governance, and read as partisan. So we publish the data and refuse to fake a number.

Term · 2025present

This term is too new to show outcome trends — most national series need at least two years of post-inauguration data (and many lag policy by a year or two). It fills in as the data is published, the same way a first-term governor’s record does.

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