President Trump and former President Obama are tied this year as the most admired man, with each garnering votes from 18% of U.S. adults sampled, according to a Gallup poll published on Monday.
For Obama - who just bought an $11.75 million mansion on Martha’s Vineyard with wife Michelle, it’s his 12th time on the list. Michelle, meanwhile, was the most admired woman for the second year in a row.
For Trump, this is his highest score in three years.
Each year since 1948, Gallup has asked Americans to name, in an open-ended fashion, which man and woman living anywhere in the world they admire most. This year’s results are based on a Dec. 2-15 poll.
Americans’ choice for most admired man this year is sharply divided along party lines: 41% of Democrats name Obama, while 45% of Republicans choose Trump. Relatively few Democrats choose Trump and relatively few Republicans pick Obama, while independents’ choices are divided about equally between the two men. -Gallup
Of note, incumbent presidents have won ‘most admired man’ in 58 of the last 72 Gallup polls, and have typically not been the choice because of political unpopularity.
Trump is more popular now than he was in the past two years, with a 45% job approval rating, among his best as president. Coincident with the rise in his job approval rating, the 18% of Americans currently naming Trump as the most admired man is also up, from 13% in 2018 and 14% in 2017. Increased mentions of Trump as the most admired man have come almost exclusively among his fellow Republicans — 32% of Republicans named Trump in 2018 and 35% did so in 2017.
Obama’s 18% mentions among U.S. adults as the most admired man are in line with his 2018 (19%) and 2017 (17%) figures, all of which are high for a former president. Dwight Eisenhower is the only other former president who received double-digit mentions at any point after leaving office.
Following Obama and Trump, there were no other men who received more than 2% of responses. The remainder include: Jimmy Carter, businessman Elon Musk, philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Pope Francis, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, California Rep. Adam Schiff, the Dalai Lama, and investor Warren Buffett.
11% of Americans named a friend or relative as their most admired man, while 18% named some other living man, and 25% chose not to name anyone.
Michelle Obama, meanwhile, is the sixth former first lady to win most admired woman - the others being Eleanor Roosevelt, Jacqueline Kennedy, Mamie Eisenhower, Betty Ford and Hillary Clinton.
Current first lady Melania Trump finished second this year, mentioned by 5%, with former talk show host Oprah Winfrey, Clinton and teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg named by 3% of U.S. adults each. The remainder of the top 10 for women includes Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.
Queen Elizabeth finished in the top 10 for the 51st time, more than any other woman. Winfrey (32 times) and Clinton (28) have also made regular appearances in the top 10. The Rev. Billy Graham has the most top 10 finishes for either gender: a total of 61 between 1955 and 2017 before his death last year.
via zerohedge
fake polls for fake people , trump 2020
100% agree. This must be the “World” poll. Remember what Michelle Obama said, Obama was the “World’s Leader”.
So if you really look at it, with the violence of the Left allowed to go after any Trump Supporter, the polls would read differently. President Trump IS hands down way better than Obama.
Those who don’t like him always state about his tweeting, or the way he talks. Not refined enough. Never anything about what he has accomplished. He’s done AMAZING things and love that “hey this is me, like it or not, but I do keep my promises to make America First”.
Obama accomplished Obamacare that ruined our health care system. Obama weaponized our IRS to go after Conservatives, but amazingly didn’t go after Hunter Biden. Obama spied on many foreign elections such as Israel. Obama allowed the Pakastani Nationals as IT to hack information to weaken our National Security. Obama allowed Ukraine to be attacked by Russia, all of this because he wanted the Iran Nuclear Deal. On Obama’s watch, Sec of State Clinton SOLD uranium assets to Russia. Obama, worked with the FBI, and the DOJ to allow Hilary Clinton to walk away from Espionage charges. And the last thing Obama did was put up road blocks and make it truly difficult for the transition of the duly-elected President Donald J. Trump which we are still feeling 3 years later.
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP! GOD BLESS THE USA!
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/12/30/chelsea-handler-2020-wish-white-female-trump-voters-realize-the-damage-hes-caused/
“I hope the 53% of white women who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 realize the damage he has caused to people who are not white. I hope in 2020 they can think about what it’s like to not be them. ”
Gee, black, hispanic and asian, they are people of color? right? Wow, under President Trump a lot of them are working. Where under Obama they weren’t.
So glad THIS White woman voted for President Trump. And will again in 2020.
Chelsea, I think all those drugs you took left you with only a little bit of brain cells left. But that’s ok, you are just doing the liberal’s agenda. Good girl, now sit. lol.
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP! GOD BLESS THE USA!
That’s funny because so many blacks now support him because of what he’s done for them. That is for them to whom work isn’t a four letter word.
I THINK THEY OUGHT TO DELETE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY! (THEY ARE LOSERS)
AMEN!!!!!!!
amen
That a BULLSHIT POLL.
TRUMP BY A MILE.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/30/study-opioid-deaths-rise-where-auto-plants-close/
“Non-Hispanic white men, ages 18 to 34, are the hardest hit by the opioid crisis in these communities that have suffered an economic downturn due to outsourced auto manufacturing. Non-Hispanic white men from 35 to 65-years-old also are at a much greater risk of opioid death in these towns than other demographic groups, the study discovered.
Overall, the study looked at 112 American counties near auto plants from 1999 to 2016. About 28 of these counties experienced an auto plant closure in that time frame — a direct result of China’s entering the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).”
Wow, and you are all mad because President Trump working a deal with China on OUR terms, and threw out NAFTA for a better plan?
“Last year, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency seized enough fentanyl to kill nearly twice the U.S. population. For the first time, Americans are now more likely to die from an accidental opioid overdose than from injuries in a car crash.
Drug overdoses in 2017 killed an unprecedented 72,287 U.S. residents, nearly three times the number of individuals killed by global terrorism and 10,000 more than the number of Americans killed in the Vietnam War. Nearly 50,000 of those deadly overdoses were caused by either heroin or fentanyl.”
Gee, and you are upset that President Trump wants to build a wall to stop this madness? You are upset that President Trump is trying to help stop overdoses?
So who REALLY is the president most admired? Hands down President Trump! What a sad state of affairs but then again Obama and his ilk don’t care about White People. I guess this is our reparation. Heck he didn’t even care about Black America because look at his home city, Chicago. Along with Baltimore.
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP! GOD BLESS THE USA!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/31/report-att-laying-off-americans-forcing-them-to-train-their-foreign-replacements/
“AT&T is poised to send thousands into the new year hunting for new jobs after assigning them to train their own foreign replacements, according to conversations with current and former workers and documents obtained by Axios. [Emphasis added]
Many have worked for the company for over a decade. They aren’t being offered severance or early retirement, and may not easily find a comparable job elsewhere with similar pay. [Emphasis added]”
Oh well, time to get rid of DirecTV. AT&T wants to do this to Americans for foreigners, so be it. Hope you go down the drain then. And I don’t think you should get any kind of exemption either. Tax the hell out of them.
Feel bad for those Americans who are forced to train foreigners and THEN get no severance.
“As Breitbart News previously reported, more than 2.7 million H-1B foreign workers have been approved to come to the U.S. to take American jobs between 2007 and 2017. During that same period, businesses tried to outsource almost 3.5 million American jobs to foreign workers instead of hiring Americans.”
Thanks to Obama and the Establishment Republicans, right Paul Ryan? How about the other established Republicans in the Senate? Blaming Trump in this I see. But then again Democrats and Establishment Republicans love that cheap labor for their big businesses. Time to put America First but hey that Republican/Democratic NWO is still in affect I see.
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP! GOD BLESS THE USA!
Another fake poll. 99% of those people do not deserve any admiration. How can Trump be compared to Obama, a worthless, egotistical (gay) man who gave a bad name to African Americans.
God bless President Trump!!
TRUMP 2020.
Let me guess you took that poll in cal. Or another blue state . It sure isn’t from a country poll . Why do they have to lie about crappie like this . Not that anyone really cares about this crappie but we know the truths . And Obama isn’t even in the running
The Obama’s couldn’t fill the shoes of President Trump and first LADY Melania Trump
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS OBAMA BEAT IN EVERYTHING TRUMP HAS DONE IN 3 IN A HALF YEARS SENCE HES BEEN IN OFFICE IN SPITE THE IMPEACHMENT BULL CHIT . PRESIDENT TRUMP IS THE MAN OF THE YEAR . OBAMA IS THE WORST PRESIDENT WE HAVE EVER HAD LQQK AT ALL THE MONEY HE SHIPPED OVER TO OTHER COUNTRYS DIDNT WANT US TO KNOW ABOUT IT TRIRED TO SHIPP IT OUT ON PLANES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND STILL GOT CAUGHT . ALL THE LAWS OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATES HAVE BROKEN AND ALL THE MONEY THEY STOLED OUT OF OUR SOCIAL SECURITY FUND THATS WHY THEY KEEP SAYING SOCIAL SECURITY GOIN BROKE DEMOCRATES AND THE SWAMP RATS ARE TAKING OUR MONEY AND NOT PAYING IT BACK . ALL THE ACCOUNTS THEY OPENED UP TO PAY OFF PEOPLE FOR SEXUAL LAW SUITS FOR EVERYONE TO KEEP THERE MOUTH SHUT ABOUT IT . IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR TRUMP WINNING THE ELECTION IN 2016 WE THE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE NEVER KNOWEN ABOUT ALL THE CORRUPTION THAT HAD BEEN GOIN ON IN DC THATS WHY DEMOCRATES HATE TRUMP HE TOOK ALL THERE MONEY TREES AWAY FROM THEM TELL ME HOW YOU GO TO CAPITAL HILL AND THE WHITE HOUSE BROKE AND POOR AND COME OUT RICH JUST LIKE BILL AND HILLARY DID THEY WAS POOR AS HELL WHEN BILL WON HIS ELECTION AND WHEN HE LEFT OFFICE THE CLINTONS CAME OUT RICHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WHILE WE THE PEOPLE CANT EVEN HARDLY PAY OUR MONTHLY BILLS ALOT OF PEOPLE WORKING FOR MIN WAGE IS MAKING WHAT SOME PEOPLE GET ON SOCIAL SECURITY AND THEY WONDER WHY THERE IS SO MANY PEOPLE HOMELESS DONT GET ENOUGH IN OUR CHECKS TO PAY THE HIGH COST OF OUR UTITLIES AND RENT AND FOOD . WHOS GONNA TALK FOR US IT SEEMS WE ARE ALL WAYS THE LAST ONES ON THE LIST .GOD BLESS YOU HAPPY NEW YEAR
I never thought Gallup would stoop so low as to run a fake poll. I can’t find anyone who participated in one about this subject. Must’ve been in Mexifornia and New York only.