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Obama vs Trump: Barack's Thanksgiving Tweet 10 Times More Popular Than Donald's
BY JASON LE MIERE ON 11/24/17 AT 12:46 PM
Even on Thanksgiving, Donald Trump could not escape his worst nightmare: 10 months into his presidency, his predecessor Barack Obama remains significantly more popular. Likely adding insult to injury, the latest evidence of Trump falling short came on the platform he values most: Twitter.
Trump’s four-minute Happy Thanksgiving video message Thursday, which was half history lesson, half self-promotion, received 90,000 likes and 23,000 retweets.
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Respectable numbers to be sure, but nowhere close to the response Obama’s Thanksgiving message to the nation received.
Link to tweet
As of midday Friday, the tweet had received 1.1 million likes and almost 200,000 retweets. To emphasize the gulf in popularity, even if you add up all the likes from Trump’s eight tweets on Thanksgiving, they do not come close to matching what Obama received on just one.
The numbers should not be all that surprising. Obama has 97.2 million followers on Twitter, more than twice the number of his successor. And, of the 10 most liked tweets of all time, six of them belong to Obama, including the most popular. Trump's tweets do not land anywhere close to the top 10.
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http://www.newsweek.com/obama-trump-popular-thanksgiving-tweets-721780
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It's unlike him to think of anyone else, so I'm surprised anyone noticed. 
