President Trump dethroned former President Barack Obama as the most admired man in 2020, while Obama’s wife, Michelle Obama, claimed the title as the most admired woman for the third consecutive year, according to an annual poll by Gallup.
Trump’s new title was despite the patterns of previous decades’ polls indicating that current presidents with unfavorable approval figures were rarely at the top of the list.
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In 2017 and 2018, Trump’s approval rating was 36% and 40%, respectively, and he placed behind Barack Obama.
This year, however, with an approval rating of 39%, he managed to obliterate Obama, thanks to steady votes from Republicans, of whom 48% voted for Trump.
Democrats meanwhile split their vote between Obama and other popular figures from 2020, including President-elect Joe Biden and the leading expert on infectious diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who dropped Obama from 41% last year to 32% this year.
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A total of 18% of Americans mention Trump, 15% mention Obama, 6% Biden and 3% Fauci, Gallup reports. The top ten men include Pope Francis, CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, co-founder and philanthropist of Microsoft, Bill Gates, Lakers icon LeBron James and Buddhist spiritual leader, Dalai Lama.
Michelle Obama, meanwhile, won 10% of the vote, while Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, who made history as the first woman and the first African-American woman to win the position this year, won 6% of the vote. the first lady Melania Trump caught 4%.
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Other choices include Oprah Winfrey, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Queen Elizabeth II, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and activist Greta Thunberg, climate change.