Donald Trump tied with Barack Obama as most admired man of the year, poll finds

[Calista241]

Source: Newsweek

Donald Trump is considered to be the most-admired man by more Americans this year than in his first two years in office, tying with Barack Obama as the most admired men in the country, with 18 percent of respondents of a new poll naming either the current or former president as top on their list.

The new Gallup poll released Monday shows that admiration for Trump has increased in 2019, despite the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller's report and the president's impeachment in the House of Representatives. In 2017, the president was the second-most admired man, chosen by 14 percent of respondents, while in 2018 the number decreased to 13 percent. Comparatively, Obama has been the most admired man for 12 years in a row.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the survey results showed a clear partisan divide, with most more Democrats saying they admired Obama the most, and the more Republicans supporting Trump. However, Obama had a slightly more non-partisan fan base, with 3 percent of Republicans as well as 12 percent of independents choosing the former president as their favorite. Only 2 percent of Democrats listed Trump as the man they most admired, while just 10 percent of independents did so.

As Gallup noted—according to its polling—the result is in line with Trump's increased overall popularity. The polling agency shows the president finishing out 2019 with a higher approval rating than previous years, at 45 percent. Meanwhile, Obama's continued popularity with Americans appears to be an outlier, with only former President Dwight D. Eisenhower having been considered the most admired man by a double-digit amount of respondents after he left office. In the past two years, 19 percent and 17 percent of respondents cited Obama as the most admired man in the poll.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-tied-barack-obama-most-admired-man-year-poll-finds-1479637

[bluestarone]

1. Total BULLSHIT

I will NEVER believe this shit!

[MBS]

12. you and me both.

[usaf-vet]

22. Let me join the "it's bullshit" crowd.

[duforsure]

48. Agree 100%

Total bs for him to use as propaganda

[Thekaspervote]

52. Agree!! Never ever did that happen

[regnaD kciN]

55. Oh, please...let's not fall into the "FAKE NEWS!" and "UNSKEW THE POLLS!" mindset...

I have little doubt that the results of this poll are accurate. What it tells me is that slightly less than one out of every five people give Trump the nod, while another slightly less than one out of five picks Obama. A sizeable majority of those polled (64%) picked someone else. That's the way these polls normally turn out, when you have a crowded field; what gets headlines as a "major boost in popularity" for Donnie really comes to a relative handful of respondents shifting to him, probably from some other right-wing character, while another handful likely switched from Obama to some other liberal with greater visibility, such as a current candidate. Don't make of this more than it needs to be, particularly when doing so puts us right into the same "if we don't like the results, call them fake" mindset as our opponent.

[0rganism]

59. do you find it unthinkable that 18% of Americans would most admire Trump?

frankly i'm surprised it's not closer to 30%

[Ligyron]

2. WTF?!!

Say it ain't so. He's most admired but 55% want him out of office,? Makes no sense whatsoever.

[Eyeball_Kid]

7. Correct. Something's wrong with Gallup. It's the sampling, or it's the phrasing of the survey...

or it COULD be that a large segment of the polled population simply didn't understand the survey questions. But this makes absolutely no sense, and anyone who adheres to the common sense of reality should discard this Gallup poll as bizarre and useless.

[gab13by13]

56. Gallup got caught back in 2008

using bogus numbers to slant the election for McCain. Why do people believe in polls, they are used for propaganda.

[cstanleytech]

21. The German people admired Hitler so yes it's entirely possible that

Trump could be admired and probably by similar types of people as back then.

[Drunken Irishman]

23. Probably because that poll is a major outlier.

But even if it wasn't, and 55% really did want him removed from office (again, an outlier of a poll, as an average of polls shows a plurality of voters wanting this), that means 45% don't. That's still a lot of people.

[Flaleftist]

66. 18% voted for him as most admired. 55% want him impeached/removed.

So not even his hardcore 1/3 list him as their most admired.

[Ligyron]

72. I think his "removed from office" numbers went up last night.

Really weird how these "polls" are used and played.

[underthematrix]

3. Just laugh like I did. The Russian trolls be busy.

It's a psyop. Treat it like a psyop. They want us to get outraged.

[LeftofObama]

16. That was my EXACT thought when I read the headline.

"The Russian trolls be busy."

The poll is complete horse crap!

[BootinUp]

17. Or worse, lol. Seen morpheus around?

[cstanleytech]

67. The whole Trump rising to power and the Republican response to his actions smacks alarmingly like

what happened in Germany as Hitler gained more and more power.
Makes me wonder how soon until we see our own version of the night of the long knives followed of course by the camps with the showers built to murder people.

[underthematrix]

69. I believe #TraitorTrump's actual support among voters is 25%.

This is why he had to cheat the first time and why he's still trying to cheat again. He can't win if everyone gets to vote. He can't win without foreign hep. He can't win without cheating and criming. It seems to me that this time is different. It seems most people are like me we're just waiting as patiently as we can to cast a BLUE ballot. We want a 2/3 majority in both the House and senate, increase our govships and state houses. This all we're about. WE see the shit show, the crime show, the EXTREME cruelty, the #TrumpTerrorism. All we want is to get these muthaphuckers out of our democracy. We're the calm cool group who's already decided. It's ALL BLUE no matter who. It doesn't matter the office. It's blue blue blue.

[TheFourthMind]

4. People admired Hitler too. And still do. n/t

[hlthe2b]

5. and presumedly so did his German Shepherd... That one pains me... Dogs are generally smarter

when it comes to people.

[marble falls]

6. That dog was smart, he saw what happened to people who didn't like the Der Adolf ...

[LiberalFighter]

8. Has Gallup shot itself in the foot?

[still_one]

9. Just who are these 2% of so-called democrats that admire trump the most?

[Doodley]

10. Trump is the most admired, among racists and other bigots.

[Kali]

11. ...

[safeinOhio]

13. Poll?

Ok, it tells me only 18% love frump and the the other 82% don’t. Even though that 82% are divided

Chill out it’s Newsweek.

[Polly Hennessey]

14. What a crock.

Polls are becoming annoying, too easily manipulated. No way is tRump tied with President Obama.

[abqtommy]

15. I'd like to have some of what these pollsters are smoking or putting under their tongues

'cause they're sure off in dreamland...

[pwb]

18. Newsweek is late when it comes out.

Does a puke own that too?

[Wellstone ruled]

19. Yes.

[Chakaconcarne]

20. Well Trumpers believe Newsweek is fake news so.......

[machI]

24. Newsweek spreading fake news.

[a kennedy]

25. You have got to be fawking kidding me.......

[karynnj]

26. This is an open ended survey where each got 18% as the "most" respected

That does not mean that an equal number of people respect them. In fact, as the article suggests, you need to go back to Eisenhower for a former President to be the most respected. The NORM is the President wins almost by default, because he is the obvious answer for his party. As noted Obama has been the most respected for 12 years in a row. It is significant that Trump has yet to have an all out win on this - and hopefully never will as the next poll will hopefully be after he loses the election.

Looking at people who got 2% -

The survey by Gallup is open-ended, and respondents can write in any name they want. As a result, 11 percent wrote down the name of a family member or friend. No other man garnered more than 2 percent in the survey, while other high-profile names getting a nod included former President Jimmy Carter, billionaire businessman Elon Musk, billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Pope Francis, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California.

[aeromanKC]

28. If we truly are a 50/50 country

That's alot of GOP who did NOT pick Trump as most admired. Not a good sign for him.

[oldsoftie]

39. How did nobody notice that?? I guess the knee-jerk takes over.

You are absolutely right; a LOT of GOP people either didnt like trump or DID like Obama or someone else

[Rebl2]

27. I don't believe

it because 55% want him impeached and removed. There must be something going on with the poll and how the question was asked.

[dchill]

29. Toadswaddle.

[Eliot Rosewater]

30. And between the moment I type this and this time tomorrow, we will be 24 hours closer

to a near total annihilation of the human race due to global warming.


And we are bombarded with news about a 12 yr old fascist killer, rump, and a poll of popularity.

Dear god...

I am NOT commenting on the OP posting this here, that isnt my point. Although, I find it odd that it is on this board now that I think about it.

[oldsoftie]

38. Why? Its news. Sometimes its news we dont like. But it gets reported.

Or should DU just be a bubble where only stuff everyone likes gets posted.

[Eliot Rosewater]

41. Well, first of all this particular piece of news is suspect seems to me, something wrong

with that poll, but even if not my point wasnt we shouldn't do news, but a reminder that what we do seem to focus on is so unimportant compared to what is staring at us.

[cstanleytech]

64. The majority of reputable scientists never said it would lead to our extinction.

Yes it will cause a lot of problems including and not limited to war as people fight over resources but human extinction? Not likely.
Even Yellowstone exploding is unlikely to cause outright human extinction simply due to the number of people currently alive on the planet.

[Tech]

31. Random phone interview of a little over a thousand people. Nuff said?

[CatMor]

32. Every day I become more disappointed in this country ..

I can't imagine even one person admiring trump. He is a totally despicable person. What could they possibly admire. He is stupid, mean, vindictive, a lousy business man , racist, a con man and a liar. Is that what people admire?

[PSPS]

33. What a horribly misleading headline. 18% doesn't equal "most admired" in reality land.

[andym]

34. Perfectly believable. It illustrates the power of lying and bullying continually

and how strong his support is among his core followers who are addicted to him. Sad that they constitute at least 18% of the population judging by this poll.

[rurallib]

35. bullshit or not, what a sad commentary on Americans

[zentrum]

36. Terrifying. WTF?

[oldsoftie]

37. Trumpers will say this is "half fake news".

[JDC]

40. I don't believe it

[stonecutter357]

42. Donald Trump is a racist pig !

[dbonds]

43. I wonder how much that result cost.

[SpankMe]

44. "Hitler tied with Pope John Paul II as most admired man..."

Makes about as much sense.

[Fiendish Thingy]

45. Poll conducted Dec 2-15, BEFORE impeachment; MOE +/- 5% nt

[House of Roberts]

46. MOE +/- 5%

When you figure only about 6% of people solicited in phone polling are even willing to respond to the call or answer the questions, (per Pew IIRC), I'm surprised they get that close.

Still, it was only 18%. It wasn't like he was tied 50-50 with Obama.

[Ford_Prefect]

47. Gallup and Harris both run polls for customers according to customer preferences and requests.

Customers such as Newsweek can specify the target audience as well as critical poll subjects and questions to be asked. It is often misleading to see headlines that Gallup has polled x or y results without seeing the customer who had the poll done. Likewise there are polls and there are polls and there are polls. Which is to say not all polls are equal, nor as transparently accurate as the headlines suggest.

On the other hand there are also polls which are designed to reduce bias in the results which Harris and Gallup, among others, also run.

In our headline based, 6-seconds-of-read-time driven media environment the truth is not only a victim, it is often not even a passenger.

[not_the_one]

49. THIS is why we need to ignore polls.

Bullshit data, thrown into a blender to "fluff" it up with spin, grossly out of proportion to its actual influence, then shaped into a turd that benefits the turd. Newsweek/Gallup has it down to an art.

We know that the 2018 election was not an anomaly. I don't believe the turd has recruited a single net vote since that election. He has LOST net votes.

IF the votes are counted fairly, the blue tsunami will become real, giving us control of all three branches of the government. Then we can concentrate on erasing the legacy of the turd from our political history. Just like he is TRYING to do to Obama. (All because of that damn series of jokes "roasting" the turd at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.)

We DO need to concentrate on the senate and make SURE that Moscow Mitch and Leningrad Lindsey, and the rest of the turd's enablers, are buried in the dust bin of history, preferably in jail. I am not concerned with the fine distinctions of the definition of treason. In trying legal cases, some "technicalities" are legit, but others are what allows murderers to get off scot-free. If someone has aided and abetted a foreign government for the purpose of negating the result of a popular election, they are guilty of treason. At this point I don't give a flying fuck whether they were just willful idiots, or active participants.

The question is, how do we make sure the votes are counted fairly if nothing is being done about it? All ballots should have paper backups that CAN'T be changed, or "disappeared", and that isn't happening. A few states are trying, but ALL states should be making plans to provide these backups. All of our cyber capabilities should be focused on preventing outside manipulation, and THAT SURE isn't happening.

I still say EVERYONE should photograph their finished ballot/screen/printout, including an acceptable id/voter registration in the photo, just in case we need to PROVE our vote. Voters are allowed to have assistance in the voting booth, so have someone there to help you, if necessary. I have done so for the last three elections.

Then the democratic party needs to be willing to do the work to make sure the voter precincts reflect the tally matching the photos. Difficult, but doable. All we have to do is verify the Democratic votes. Inconvenient? Yes. Time consuming? Yes. Worth it? Absolutely. It is only the survival of our nation that is at stake.

[Lock him up.]

71. Corporate media outlets want a horse race.

They will try any trick they can fabricate in the hope they will get it until the last day.

[yaesu]

50. no, this is a poll designed to find out how many fox news lobotomy victims there are. nt

[SWBTATTReg]

51. Funny (not really). I wonder who would be the most hated? I got a feeling that we all know who...

[thegoose]

53. What kind of asshole poll is this?

Dump needs to be the most despised fuckface of the year.

[CrispyQ]

54. That's gonna eat away at him.

I look forward to the day when he no longer gets national attention. He will jones so bad it might even kill him.

[mwb970]

57. Baffling. How can anyone "admire" trump? For what??

[paleotn]

58. Gallop gone the way of Rasmussen?

Limiting their respondents to those few who still have land lines? Or did they just do an "internets" poll. If they'd asked me, I'd say IQ45 is the man I'd most like to see torn apart by wild dogs....but that's just me I guess.

[Brainfodder]

60. So he's polling at 18%, that is very low!

[Aristus]

61. Where did they take the polling sample?

East Cornpone, Arkassippi?

[olddad65]

62. If Russia can rig an election, surely they can rig a popularity poll

[BlueIdaho]

63. Nope...

It’s statistical horseshit.

[mahina]

65. Nonsense

[truthisfreedom]

68. Hahahahahaaaa. It'll still drive 45 batty.

[Demonaut]

70. lol