President Trump Just Lost to Barack Obama (on Twitter at Least)

President Trump just lost to former POTUS Barack Obama on his favorite social platform, with Twitter sharing its Top 10 most retweeted tweets of 2017 — and the commander-in-chief didn’t make the cut.

Obama, on the other hand, made the list twice, including a second-place finish for his Aug. 12 tweet in which he wrote: “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion …”

Stemming from South African President Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, the tweet came on the heels of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville. It’s since been retweeted a robust 1.7 million times, and is also the most “liked” tweet of all time, according to Twitter. (My personal record for RTs is a mere eight, if I remember correctly.)

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"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 nabbed the eighth most popular tweet of 2017, too, as he was leaving office in January.

“It’s been the honor of my life to serve you,” he tweeted. “You made me a better leader and a better man.”

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It's been the honor of my life to serve you. You made me a better leader and a better man.

— President Obama (@POTUS44) January 20, 2017

Since President Trump likes to receive binders of favorable coverage, it should be pointed out he’s a far more active tweeter than his predecessor. His blurbs routinely grab more than 30,000 retweets, and he certainly doesn’t have an issue with volume: he continues to set personal records with each passing month. Trump’s top tweet of the year, according to Twitter, was his notorious CNN-wrestling post in July, which had more than 360,000 retweets.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/881503147168071680

But even the most powerful men on earth couldn’t beat out Carter Wilkerson for 2017’s top retweet. Who, you might ask? The guy that tweeted at Wendy’s, asking how many retweets it would take for a year of free chicken nuggets. He came up short of the 18 million threshold set by Wendy’s (seems a bit greedy, frankly), but still pulled in the top spot with 3.6 million RTs. Chicken nuggets: bringing Twitter users together from both sides of the aisle.

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HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS pic.twitter.com/4SrfHmEMo3

— Carter Wilkerson (@carterjwm) April 6, 2017

15 Stars Who Imagined Violence Against Donald Trump, From Kathy Griffin to Pearl Jam (Photos)

Since the election, several celebrities have voiced their displeasure -- even anger -- with the Trump administration. Some have gone so far as to suggest violent measures. From Robert De Niro to Snoop Dogg, here are some left-leaning noteworthy people who have fanned themes of violence toward Trump and the GOP.
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Mickey Rourke

In a TMZ video from 2015, this boxer-turned-actor directed his rage toward Trump, calling him a "big-mouthed bitch bully," saying he would "love 30 seconds in a room with the little bitch." Rourke has also expressed a desire to "give [Trump] a Louisville slugger."

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Larry Wilmore

In late February 2016, the host of Comedy Central's now-canceled "The Nightly Show" joked about then-candidate Donald Trump: “I don’t want to give him any more oxygen. That’s not a euphemism, by the way. I mean it literally. Somebody get me the pillow they used to kill [Supreme Court Justice Antonin] Scalia and I’ll do it — I’ll do it!"
George Lopez

During the Republican primaries in March 2016, the Mexican American comedian tweeted a cartoon image of former Mexican president Vincente Fox holding the decapitated head of Donald Trump aloft, with the caption "Make America Great Again."
Marilyn Manson

Shock-rocker Marilyn Manson had to take his turn in the Trump-bashing festivities. In a teaser video for his song, "Say10," released just after the 2016 election, a Trump-like figure wearing a suit and a red tie lies decapitated on a concrete floor, in a pool of his own blood.
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Rosie O'Donnell

In July 2017, O'Donnell tweeted out a link to a game called "Push Trump Off A Cliff Again." This made many conservatives want to push her off a cliff, not POTUS.

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Madonna

Madonna told a crowd of thousands at the Women's March on Washington in January 2017 that she had “thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House." The singer's profanity-riddled jab at the Republican administration provoked the anger of many conservatives.

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Robert De Niro

The actor is not afraid to express his disdain for the commander in chief. De Niro confirmed to ABC's "The View" in February 2017 that he would like to punch Trump in the face. He clarified earlier comments, saying "It wasn’t like I was gonna go find him and [really] punch him in the face, but he’s gotta hear it."

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Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg's music video for "Lavender," released in March 2017, (literally) paints POTUS as a clown and orchestrates his death. At the video's end, the "Gin and Juice" rapper points a gun at the harlequin Trump figure and shoots. But instead of a bullet, a red flag that reads "Bang!" fires out of the gun.

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Kathy Griffin

The comedian landed in hot water in May 2017 after photos surfaced of her holding a fake bloody, decapitated Trump head. Griffin was promptly dropped from her annual New Year's Eve gig by CNN. Toilet stool company Squatty Potty also pulled its ads featuring Griffin. Trump himself called the photos "sick" and tweeted that his youngest son, Barron, was "having a hard time" with the images. Griffin later apologized.

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Tyler Shields
NYC Public Theater's "Julius Caesar"

The nonprofit theater staged a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" in May-June 2017 that made conservative viewers want to revolt. In the production, a Trumplike figure playing the title role is stabbed to death by a band of angry Senators. The Public Theater subsequently lost sponsorships from Delta Airlines and Bank of America.

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Moby

The musician's new video, released in June 2017, is simultaneously nostalgic and dystopian. In 1980s cartoon fashion, a giant Transformer-like Trump morphs into a swastika/dollar sign and wreaks havoc on a city before meeting a fiery, explosive demise.

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Johnny Depp

During an appearance at the U.K.'s 2017 Glastonbury music and arts festival, the actor tore into the president -- "I think Trump needs help" -- and then made an ill-considered joke: “When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?” Depp claimed his joke was misconstrued and eventually issued an apology.

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Anthony Bourdain

Asked what he'd serve at a peace summit between President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, the celebrity chef told a TMZ video crew in 2017: "Hemlock."
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Big Sean

In February 2017 rapper Big Sean rapped a verse about killing the President on his "I Decided" album. The lyrics are, “And I might just kill ISIS with the same icepick/That I murder Donald Trump in the same night with."
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Pearl Jam

At a show in Montana in August 2018 that served as a fundraiser for Sen. Jon Tester, the Seattle-based rockers released a cartoon poster commemorating the show that featured a bald eagle picking at the rotting corpse of President Trump on the White House lawn.

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Violent words and imagery crosses the aisle as well.

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Some celebrities have been more than outspoken in their criticism of the Republican president

Since the election, several celebrities have voiced their displeasure -- even anger -- with the Trump administration. Some have gone so far as to suggest violent measures. From Robert De Niro to Snoop Dogg, here are some left-leaning noteworthy people who have fanned themes of violence toward Trump and the GOP.

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15 Stars Who Imagined Violence Against Donald Trump, From Kathy Griffin to Pearl Jam (Photos)

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