Donald Trump finally topped the most admired man poll, but he is still tied to Barack Obama. Obama has been topping the vote for 12 years now, and it is the first time that the incumbent president takes the top rank of the survey.
Since 1948, Gallup asks Americans to name the man and woman they admire the most. This year, the poll started from Dec. 2 to 15.
Evidently, the result is divided between the two party lines: the Democrats and the Republicans. Barack Obama got 41 percent votes, while Donald Trump received 45 percent.
According to the publication, Donald Trump has been the Americans' common choice. He got the distinction in 58 of the 72 prior Gallup polls. In the past two consecutive years, 2017 and 2018, the President of the United States' job approval ratings were lower.
Donald Trump is more popular now than he had been in the past two years, with the 45 percent job approval rating. It was said to be his best as the president. His ratings grew enough to match Barack Obama's. However, he still didn't manage to end the previous world leader's 12 first-place finishes' streak.
Aside from Barack Obama and Donald Trump, no other men who made it on the list got more than 2 percent votes. The likes of President Jimmy Carter, the businessman Elon Musk, the philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Pope Francis, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, California Rep. Adam Schiff, the Dalai Lama, and investor Warren Buffett also made it on the list.
About 11 percent of participants named their relative or friend as the man they admired the most. Some 18 percent named some other living man, while 25 percent didn't give any name.
Barack Obama's wife, Michelle Obama, on the other hand, is the most admired woman in the poll. It was her second year in a row. She managed to retain the title, getting a 10 percent vote. The current First Lady of the United States Melania Trump, alternatively, got second place at 5 percent.
However, the 10 percent vote that Michelle Obama received decreased from the 15 percent she got last year. At the time, according to USA Today, the poll was made shortly after she released her bestselling autobiography, Becoming.
The remainder of the top 10 women on the list is Queen Elizabeth II, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Also, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley made it on the poll.
