With one tweet, former US President Barack Obama said what Donald Trump failed to say in the days since a rally of white nationalists and neo-Nazis resulted in the death of a protester in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Now, his August 12 tweet – his first post in almost a month – has become the most-liked tweet in Twitter’s history.
The former President quoted Nelson Mandela in response to the deadly violence that occurred over the weekend.
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion…” pic.twitter.com/InZ58zkoAm
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 13, 2017
“People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love…”
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 13, 2017
Top Comments
If we all wore burquas, no one would see any skin colours, then we'd all be equal. Tony Abbott particularly should have to wear one over his Speedos.
So, Nelson Mandela wrote the most liked tweet in history and Obama quoted him.
Well someone else could have posted it and got the likes but they didn't. It was an appropriate quote to use at the time.
Nelson Mandela was a great leader, I guess it makes sense Obama would try and reach his level.
Oh Les, what a waste of comment. If you have a legitimate gripe about Obama, please do post it for discussion, but silly tit for tat throw away comments that serve no purpose but to display your childishness are just ridiculous. Post something worth discussing.
Yes, and it was acknowledged as such - unlike the speech Melania plagiarised from Michelle Obama.