RantCrush Top 5: August 16, 2017

After Charlottesville, President Obama tweeted a quote by Nelson Mandela. It was divided into three tweets and the first one was accompanied by a picture of him saying hello to small children through a window. That tweet is now the most liked in Twitter history, exceeding the one Ariana Grande posted after the Manchester terrorist attack on her concert.

“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

Obama’s tweet currently has over three million likes and one million retweets, making it the fifth most retweeted tweet ever. The full quote reads, “No one is born hating another person because of the color 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.” It comes from Mandela’s autobiography from 1994.

If Trump wants to overtake Obama’s most popular tweet…all he has to do is announce he is resigning.

I promise it will get 300 mill likes.

— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) August 16, 2017

Emma Von Zeipel

Emma Von Zeipel is a staff writer at Law Street Media. She is originally from one of the islands of Stockholm, Sweden. After working for Democratic Voice of Burma in Thailand, she ended up in New York City. She has a BA in journalism from Stockholm University and is passionate about human rights, good books, horses, and European chocolate. Contact Emma at EVonZeipel@LawStreetMedia.com.