Barack Obama's Response to Charlottesville Is the Most-Liked Tweet of All Time (Update)

UPDATE, August 16, 2017: Barack Obama has just made internet history. By late Tuesday evening, his tweet responding to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia became the most-liked post on the social media platform (by Monday morning, it had garnered over 3.1 million likes).

Also on Tuesday: President Donald Trump took questions on Charlottesville during a press conference meant to honor the administration's "Infrastructure Week," and descended into an unbalanced, combative defense of his initial statement condemning violence "on many sides."

This post was originally published on August 15, 2017.

On Saturday former President Barack Obama shared a poignant, heartfelt message on Twitter in response to the violence that was erupting in Charlottesville, Virginia. In a series of posts quoting late South African President Nelson Mandela, Obama began by tweeting, "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion…" Accompanying the post: a photo of the former president smiling at children of different ethnicities.

In subsequent tweets, Obama completed the quote, saying, "People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love…for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite

As of Tuesday, his initial post had garnered over 2.5 million likes and over 1 million retweets, making it the second most popular tweet of all time. (For reference, the most popular tweet of all time is this post from Ariana Grande, written in response to the Manchester arena bombing.)

Obama's successor Donald Trump, on the other hand, has faced a massive public backlash for his initial response to the events in Charlottesville, during which he said: "We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence, on many sides. On many sides." In previously unscheduled remarks delivered on Monday, Trump declared that racism is "evil" and denounced the KKK, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists.

One of the greatest Presidents of these United States ever.

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One of the greatest Presidents of these United States ever.

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