Melania Trump made it to the list of the most admired women in America this year, faring better than former First Lady Hillary Clinton, who dropped to the eighth place from being four places up.
The First Lady Melania Trump's popularity swelled recently, climbing up seven places to the third on the top ten list of most admired female public figures in America, a new poll shows.
Top of the list is Michelle Obama followed by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court, in second place. The YouGov figures placed President Donald Trump's wife ahead of comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, England's Queen Elizabeth II, and television personality Oprah Winfrey, in that descending order.
This despite criticism from certain controversial wardrobe decisions she made in the past and notwithstanding the backlash arising from the "send her back" chant delivered by the audience at her husband, President Donald Trump's latest North Carolina Make America Great Again rally.
The rally crowd behavior was taken as a blatant racist display and was aimed at Representative Ilhan Omar and three other congressional women of color. But despite the President's statement saying he was "not happy" and that he "disagreed" with the sentiment of the crowd at the said rally, the uproar on social media that followed turned toward Melania.
A Twitter user explained the ranking with a dig aimed at the President's wife saying that the "difference" was that former First Lady Obama was not a "gold digger."
Another hater suggested Melania get a "new slogan" to replace her movement's "Be Best" which the social media user declared was not enough to bring her topmost on the poll. The very same Twitter user dared the First Lady of the United States to place "actions behind" her slogan or "admit" she had lied.
Still a third user was of the opinion that "Donald" needed to "ship" the First Lady and her parents as well back to Slovenia.
The FLOTUS has preferred to weather this outcry and once more kept her silence in the face of being called even an "illegitimate FLOTUS." But keeping mum has not however been enough to propel her onto another list, this time in the international arena.
Some 42,000 respondents were asked from all over 41 countries worldwide, and the former First Lady Obama who had recently released her memoir also topped the list of the world's leading women. Joining Obama on the list are, again, Winfrey, Queen Elizabeth, and Clinton. Three were from the entertainment industry, actresses Angelina Jolie and Emma Watson as well as the singer, Taylor Swift.
