The current US President Donald Trump topped the rating of the most admired men in the US in 2020. This is evidenced by the results of the poll , which conducted annually by the sociological service Gallup.
For 12 years prior to this, the leader of the rating was annually the former US President Barack Obama a>, but this year Trump managed to overtake his predecessor by 3 percent. In addition to them, the top 10 includes the US President-elect Joe Biden , Chief Infectionist USA Anthony Fauci Pope, entrepreneur Elon Musk , Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders , co-founder Microsoft and philanthropist Bill Gates , basketball player LeBron James and the Dalai Lama.
Among women, the main object of admiration was Barack Obama’s wife Michelle. Leading positions in the ranking were also taken by the elected Vice President Kamala Harris, Donald Trump’s wife Melanya, TV presenter Oprah Winfrey, German Chancellor Angela Merkel , former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II , Judge Amy Connie Barrett and Swedish eco-activist Greta Thunberg .
Last week, USA Today and Suffolk University published the results of a joint research , which showed that the majority of American voters developed a negative attitude towards the Trump presidency. Just over 50 percent of voters surveyed said Trump would go down in history as a failed president. 16 percent called the politician a great president, another 13 percent called him a good one. 16 percent of respondents rated Trump’s presidency as acceptable, with the remaining 4 percent refraining.