Former President Barack Obama has set the record for the most-liked tweet in Twitters history.

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion ...", this is a fragment from the post of former US President Barack Obama made on Twitter on August 12 citing South African leader Nelson Mandela. The tweet, Obama's first in weeks, came in the context of deadly white supremacist violence and response to the death of a woman at Charlottesville neo-Nazi marches in Virginia. Barack Obama's post promoting racial and religious tolerance has become the most liked of all time, Twitter says. This quoting Nelson Mandela from former US President Barack Obama has picked up over 3 million likes in three days. The post set the record at about 7:07 pm PT Tuesday, when it topped 2.7 million likes and repossessed over 1.2 million times, according to Twitter. Obama, 56, wrote three tweets in total, continuing from the first one by writing, "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. " Obama's Tweet became the most liked tweet in history on Tuesday, surpassing Ariana Grande's distracted tweet following the Manchester Terrorist attacks that occurred after her concert in May. The third most-liked tweet of all-time is currently Ellen DeGeneres' Oscars selfie from the 2014 Academy Awards, with 2.9 million likes. A picture attached to the post shows Obama playing with toddlers of different racial backgrounds. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has come under fire for his delayed response to condemning a racist. Trump's reaction to the violence in Charlottesville rally that took the lives of three people, was in stark contrast to Obama. President Trump, in a press conference at Trump Tower, reiterated his opinion that "both sides" were to blame for the resulting violence. The unrest led to the deaths of three people, includ also two Virginia State Police troopers and left dozens injured. Obama has 93.3 million Twitter followers. Donald Trump, has 35.9 million followers for his primary.