On Twitter (it's a form of social media) both Barack Obama and Donald Trump condemned the stuff that happened at Charlottesville. Nothing surprising there. What was surprising was the response to the tweets.
Donald had four or five tweets on Charlottesville, most of them had around 100,000 likes with one of the tweets getting close to 200,000 likes. Obama had three tweets on Charlottesville, one of them got two million likes, one of them got a million likes, and the other one got close to 900,000 likes. That's ten times as many likes as Trump. I was kind of surprised to say the least. Same thing happened with the Manchester and London attacks, Obama tweeted about it and it got a million likes, Trump tweeted it and it got 100,000 to 150,000 likes.
Somebody explain this to me. What does this mean? Is Obama that much more popular than Trump? Is Obama more well liked than Trump? Is it something else?
It's also surprising because Trump is kinda known as the king of Twitter right now.
Thoughts?


Left wingers have a much higher presence on social media and the news media. People that actually work have little time for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Younger people also tend to be more active on social media than older folks. As the old joke goes: If a person is not a liberal when he is twenty, he has no heart; if he is not a conservative when he is forty, he has no brain.
If Obama was actually so popular, the Democrats would have won the last election handily based on his legacy. People got sick of a failing Obamacare, his race and class division, and his attacks on the police, military, and any religion that isn't Islam.