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) | Volodymyr Zelenskyy 2% (self-made) Bernie Sanders 2% (self-made) Warren Buffet 2% (self-made) Bill Gates 2% (self-made) | Joe Biden 3% (self-made) |
| Jeff Bezos 2% (self-made) Jackie Chan 2%(self-made) Bill Gates 2% (self-made) Gavin Newsom 2% (self-made) Arnold Schwarzenegger 2% (self-made) Sylvester Stallone 2% (self-made) Bernie Sanders 2% (self-made) | ||
| Most admired woman (Dec 2025) | Most admired woman (Dec 2024) | Most admired woman (Dec 2023) |
| Melania Trump 3% Michelle Obama 3% Kamala Harris 3% (self-made) | Kamala Harris 11% (self-made) Michelle Obama 11% | Michelle Obama 12% |
| Kim Kardashian 2% Taylor Swift 2% (self-made) Malala Yousafzai 2% (self-made) | Oprah 5% (self-made) Hillary Clinton 5% | Oprah 7% (self-made) |
| Kristi Noem 1% Karoline Leavitt 1% (self-made) Greta Thunberg 1% (self-made) Makenzie Scott 1% Beyonce 1% (self-made) Oprah 1% (self-made) | Malala Yousafzai 3% (self-made) Catherine, Princess of Wales 3% Dolly Parton 3% (self-made) | Hillary Clinton 3% Kamala Harris 3% (self-made) Dolly Parton 3% (self-made) Jill Biden 3% |
| Brett Cooper 2% (self-made) Melinda Gates 2% Gisèle Pelicot 2% (self-made) | Mary J. Blige 2% (self-made) Candace Cameron Bure 2% (self-made) Selena Gomez 2% (self-made) Alicia Keys 2% (self-made) Candace Owens 2% (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.
Pumpkin Person 
Why did you call Oprah and Kamala ‘self made’. What is the defintion you are using? Forbes?
Because they weren’t born or married into their status.
Well Kamala slept into her status.
And oprah sent women to certain individuals for her status.
Well Kamala slept into her status.
Still relatively self-made
And oprah sent women to certain individuals for her status.
No evidence of that. But if she did that was after she had her status and was just being greedy for even more.
And in a way that’s even more SELF-MADE because that’s Darwinian law of the jungle. I’ll feed the cheetah so the cheetah wont eat me. That’s the kind of quick creative thinking our ancestors needed to evolve big brains for and Oprah’s is among the biggest of them all.
Well thats the type of thinking that makes you and the people you sell out slaves.
Like in africa once upon a time.
I haven’t sold out a damn thing, but the primates that used their intelligence for evil were rewarded by evolution because intelligence evolved for predation.
As usual you seem to know nothing. Not even about your beloved Africa. The black chieftains sold their own people to the slave traders. Its not a million miles off neoliberals selling out their nations to neocons.
That type of thinking only ends one way. And you become a slave just like the people you sell out. Worse even.
But in your nutty conspiracy theory Oprah was selling white women into sexual slavery, not her own people, so that makes her a master not a slave, and thus an evil genius not a useful idiot or an Uncle Tom.
You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.
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Does this make you stop and think a bit?
nope
If you technically mean “most admired” to be people have the most attention on them, which is sometimes positive, and that is well-known (Shelling Point), and is looked as a leader in some sense… The list basically makes sense.
It’s a list of people named most often when Americans are asked what men alive today they admire most and what women alive today they admire most. The fact that a President or former President has been #1 on the male side virtually every year for nearly 80 years tells me it must be measuring something important.
I like the list because if someone says you’re one of the 2 men they admire most in the entire world even ahead of their own father and son or husband, then they kind of worship you and if you’re worshipped by the most powerful country you’re kind of like a God and since God is define as all powerful, then the list is a crude proxy for power, and if it’s self-made power, you’re metaphorically God because God can literally be defined as the only truly self-made thing ever.
Mr. Clifton serves on several boards, including the U.S. Council on Competitiveness, is Chairman Emeritus of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and Chairman of the Dr. N. Joyce Payne Center for Social Justice.
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This is your daddy.
Gallup Chairman. His son is CEO.
“You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” – John 8:44
so you think there’s been a decades long conspiracy to falsely convince the public that U.S. Presidents are admired in their own country? Is survey monkey in on the conspiracy theory too since after Gallup ended the poll I continued it with them.
Why is the bible right and CNN is always wrong. Hmmm. Need a peer reviewed paper in Nature to figure out that one.
Kamala should [redacted by pp, 26-01-16]. Twice. Married a neocon for access to $$$ and fame.
Has zero opinions or beliefs.
No achievements.