Donald Trump, Pope Francis Tied For Americans’ 2nd Most Admired Man

Pope Francis greets the faithful during an audience with the Italian National Social Security Institute's workers (INPS) in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Pope Francis on Saturday greeted employees of Italian Nat... Pope Francis greets the faithful during an audience with the Italian National Social Security Institute's workers (INPS) in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Pope Francis on Saturday greeted employees of Italian National Social Security Institute in St Peter’s Square, where he stressed the importance of supporting the dignity of work and workers.(Photo by Giuseppe Ciccia/NurPhoto) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** MORE LESS
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Donald Trump and Pope Francis don’t have much in common, but this year the two tied as Americans’ second most admired men in the world.

In a Gallup poll released on Monday, Americans named President Obama the most admired man in the world for the eighth time — he received 17 percent of Americans’ votes. Trump and Pope Francis tied for second place with 5 percent of the votes each.

Americans named Hillary Clinton the most admired woman in the world — 13 percent of those polled chose Clinton. She has been named the most admired woman 20 times. Malala Yousafzai won second place with 5 percent of the vote, followed by a tie between Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama for third place.

Gallup surveyed 824 Americans Dec. 2-6 via phone with a margin of error plus or minus 4 percentage points.

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  1. Trump: This is flawed. I am THE most admired human being in this world. If not, I will only count the votes of those who admire me.

  2. That Disraeli-attributed quote about lies, damned lies and statistics will get quite a workout because of this.

    By Trump and others.

  3. The aggregate scores tell a story::
    Obama 17%
    Clinton 13%
    Trump 5%

    It doesn’t get any clearer than this: Trump is a LOSER

  4. Avatar for mymy mymy says:

    Admiring Trump means admiring a bully. Do these Americans think the same of Pope Francis?

  5. Lets take it a step further. Pope Donald Trump is just barely half of the support President Obama gets.

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