Obama’s white rally tweet most liked in history

0 Barack Obama tweeted Nelson Mandela quote A post by Barack Obama responding to the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville has become the mostliked tweet in history.

Just days after the former US president condemned the tragic events in Virginia with a powerful Nelson Mandela quote, his tweet has gained more than three million likes to set a new record, according to Twitter tracking site Favstar.

Mr Obama’s series of three tweets reads: “No-one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin or his background or his religion. 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.”

The first tweet amassed over 1.2 million retweets, while Obama’s follow-up second and third posts garnered more than 300,000 retweets each.

Obama’s post surpassed Ariana Grande’s tweet on May 22 following the Manchester terror attack, which read: “Broken. From the bottom of my heart, I am so so sorry. I don’t have words”. It attracted 2.71 million likes.