I’m not a huge sci-fi guy, generally preferring horror, but I was intrigued by the plot of V so I decided to buy the 2009 reboot on Apple TV and was very impressed, especially by the choice of the lead actress who despite her beauty, reminds me so much of a snake.
The plot:
Earth is visited by space ships full of aliens. Each ship hovers over major cities like New York, Paris, Beijing, etc as people look up at bottom of the ships which form a massive TV screen from which the beautiful Anna explains that they come in peace and promises to share their advanced technology.
Because people look up to this huge image of a face constantly talking to them from the sky, Anna is like God. Anna quickly becomes a beloved figure on the World stage, meeting with World leaders and charming the masses with jokes like “not even us Vs can cure the common cold”. She would have towered as the most admired woman in the World on the annual Gallup poll of Americans (or any other nation).
When skeptics ask how it’s possible that aliens on another planet just happened to evolve to look and act identical to humans Anna says “our scientists can explain” which they never do because beneath the cloned human skin they actually look like reptiles and like a snake, Anna can opens her mouth wide enough to swallow her sexual partners after using them to fertilize her thousands of eggs which she needs to build her army, since the rest of her space ships are taking too long to get to Earth.
Sadly the show only lasted two seasons and since this is a reboot of the hit 1983 series by the same name, many fans of the original didn’t give it much of a chance.
Despite being the most worshipped human ever of 2025, Trump has dethroned Obama as the most worshipped LIVING man according to an annual poll conducted virtually every December since the 1940s. If you think that’s a contradiction note that in polling like in elections, the shape of the field determines the outcome so when people are free to choose among ALL HUMANS (alive or dead, real or fictional) Obama wins, but when the competition is confined to only male humans who are alive, Trump wins, with 13% of Americans naming him (unprompted) as a man they admire, more than triple the 4% who named Obama. However 4% was enough to make Obama the most worshipped self-made man, a title he’s held virtually every year since 2008. Joe Biden has the distinction of being perhaps the only U.S. President in the poll’s 78 year history to never be either the most worshipped man or the most worshipped self-made man.
Meanwhile there was no clear winner on the female side, with Melania Trump, Michelle Obama, and Kamala Harris all locked in a three-way tie with 3% each, but 3% is enough to allow Harris to tower as the most worshipped self-made woman on the entire planet for the second consecutive year, dethroning Oprah who held the title almost every single year since 1997.
Most admired man (Dec 2025)
Most admired man (Dec 2024)
Most admired man (Dec 2023)
Donald Trump 13%
Barack Obama 17% (self-made)
Barack Obama 14% (self-made)
Barack Obama 4% (self-made)
Donald Trump 8%
Donald Trump 9%
Elon Musk 3% (self-made)
Elon Musk 7% (self-made)
Elon Musk 5% (self-made)
Pope Leo 2% (self-made) Warren Buffett 2% (self-made) Johnny Depp 1% (self-made)
Pope Francis 4% (self-made) Joe Biden 4% (self-made)
Jimmy Carter 4% (self-made) Keanu Reeves 4% (self-made)
Ronaldo 1% (self-made) JD Vance 1% (self-made) Joe Rogan 1% (self-made) Bill Gates 1% (self-made) Bernie Sanders 1% (self-made) Volodymyr Zelenskyy 1% (self-made) Keanu Reeves 1% (self-made)
Prior to Oprah breaking the color barrier in 1997, thus normalizing blackness, not a single black face had ever topped the male or female side of the list (self-made or otherwise). It was unthinkable and even today, the only nominal blacks to ever top the male side (Obama and Colin Powell) have been extremely hybridized.
*Note the female half of the poll was not given in 1967, and the entire poll was not given in 1975 & 1976.
*Note 2020 was the last year Gallup conducted the poll but I resurrected it in 2023 via survey monkey.
Barack Obama has overtaken Jesus as the most worshipped human ever by the World’s greatest superpower, being named a hero by 4% of Americans in a Survey Monkey Poll of 100 U.S. adults I conducted earlier this week. Jesus and President Trump were tied for second place being named by 3% each. Rounding out the top six were Bernie Sanders, Batman and Washington with 2% each.
This is the sixth known time the poll has been conducted with the first three times being done by the Harris polling company in 2001, 2009 and 2014. After waiting eight long years for them to do the poll again, I decided to do it myself using Survey Monkey in 2022, 2023 and 2025.
Most years “Christ is King” as the Christians like to say, but in 2009 and now 2025, Obama beat him, though admittedly, I’m not a professional pollster like Harris so the 2025 sample size was small and likely not as representative as professional polls which match repondents on a greater number of U.S. census demographics..
The poll involves asking American adults who they admired enough to consider a hero (maximum 3 names). Because respondents are not given a pre-selected list to choose from and are free to name literally anyone who had ever lived (or not have lived in the case of fictional characters or religious myths) being named by even 1% of Americans is a huge honor and means millions of people in the World’s most powerful country, rank you above 99.9999999% of all humanity! Not surprisingly then, the list is typically dominated by people with God like status in the culture such as Jesus and U.S. Presidents, and in this way serves as a proxy for power and influence.
While Obama was the most worshipped man (alive or dead, real or fictional) of 2025, there was no most worshipped woman of the year because the only women to be named in 2025 were all tied with only 1% naming each one.
Pumpkin Person 