Former President Barack Obama's tweet in response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend is the platform's most-liked posts.
Violence broke out on Saturday in Charlottesville, a picturesque college town, after a loosely connected mix of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists assembled to protest the city's decision to remove a towering statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee.
Obama tweeted Saturday night, "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..."
Obama was quoting from Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. Obama posted the tweet alongside a picture of himself smiling at a group of children of different races.
By Tuesday morning, Obama’s tweet had more than 3 million likes, making it the most-liked tweet of all time.
Combative and insistent, US President Donald Trump declared anew on Tuesday that “there is blame on both sides” for the deadly violence last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, appearing to once again equate the actions of white supremacist groups and those protesting them.
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