I think Fred Phelps wins if you discount the qualification that a huge number of people need to have heard of him. Of the people who do know of him, I’d say very nearly 100% hate him.
If you go by someone that large numbers of people would be familiar with around the world, then probably Assad or Kim Jong-Un, even accounting for the fact that they do have a non-trivial amount of adherents, percentage-wise they are universally reviled.
And the other half have food, which is more than you can say for the rest of the country.
Uh, why hasn’t anybody mentioned Dick Cheney? Or Karl Rove? Have they turned into good guys while I wasn’t looking?
I mentioned Cheney upthread, but Rove just isn’t in the running IMHO. He’s not universally well enough known to be universally hated.
A Worst Scumbag nomination should go to former South African President Thabo Mbeki, who’s been blamed for hundreds of thousands of AIDS deaths due to his denialist stance on HIV causing AIDS.
Also in the running - denialists like Matthias Rath, an M.D. who promoted useless supplements over effective meds for AIDS in South Africa, and continues to promote his pills for cancer, heart disease etc.
But it’s not just worst scumbag, it’s worst universally agreed scumbag. I don’t think ether of these guys has a high enough profile.
What about Andrew Wakefield? Most people couldn’t call up his name, (I had to google it myself) but if you said “That British Doctor with the fraudulent anti-vacc research” I’m betting 100% would say “Oh yeah, I’ve heard of him, what a scumbag!”
Even the anti-vacc folks must be angry with him for discrediting ther cause. . .
Not at all. He was framed in an attempt to discredit him by Big Pharman, because he threatens their sales of vaccines. :rolleyes:
Yoko Ono?
Jenny McCarthy?
Piers Morgan?
I am going to go with that stupid cow that is in line ahead of me at the airline check in. Quit whining about the bad time you had in Europe with the food or trains. Get on the %$#!! plane and destroy your passport when you get home to the US. You should never be allowed to travel outside of the US again.
What would those be?
They feel he protected them from Saddam Hussein, maybe?
Nope, he’s a persecuted hero of the Cause. 
In all honesty, it’s probably some soccer player.
Lance Armstrong
No love for Jerry Sandusky?
Given the worldwide fascination with all American news content, I am confident that even people in remote villages in Mozambique know of Sandusky (“Hah! Peeg!”) and that 99.99999913% who know of him, think he is scum.
That anti-Trump campaigner and Mennie estate resident Michael Forbes won the Top Scot accolade in the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards, as voted for by the public suggests not.
Trump compounds things (of course he would) by seemingly thinking that the sponsors had actually decided on the award by the following childish reaction: http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-stories/donald-trump-calls-for-global-boycott-of-whisky-distiller-after-top-scot-award-given-to-anti-golf-course-campaigner-1-2676188
What is complete idiot!
The critical and public reaction in Scotland to the award winning documentary “You’ve Been Trumped” has also done much to spread the unpopularity of Mr Trump. http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt1943873/
As has Scottish news coverage of Trump’s attack on Offshore Wind farms where he resorts to his usual mix of threats and bluster in trying to get his way Donald Trump to fight offshore wind farm plans alone after opposition withdraw concerns - Daily Record
He really is the lowest piece of humanity it is possible to contemplate.
Now, come on. Those boys were asking for it! Going around in their cute little shorts and tshirts… <_< runs away
The people from the U.S. who are known around the world are actors, a few TV celebrities, high-profile athletes and high-level politicians. I vaguely knew Sandusky was a sports coach implicated in a sex scandal, but I had to look him up just now to find out which sport.