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Barack Obama’s Cryptic Tweet Sets Twitter Alight With Speculation

"OMG, how to decipher this?" one person responded to the former president's single word post.
Lee Moran
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Reporter, HuffPost

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One word was all it took for former President Barack Obama to set social media alight on Thursday.

“Vote.,” he tweeted:

Vote.

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 14, 2020

It’s unclear exactly why Obama issued the call to vote, some six months before the 2020 presidential election.

But many people suggested it was in response to Trump’s earlier single word post referencing his so-called “Obamagate” conspiracy theory that alleges Obama in 2016 led attempts to sabotage his incoming administration.

OBAMAGATE!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 14, 2020

Others theorised that Trump’s recent attacks on in-mail voting and his widely criticised handling of the coronavirus pandemic could have prompted Obama to respond. They also noted how Obama’s post garnered more than four times the number of “likes” as his successor’s tweet.

One-word response from Obama as Trump, Fox News, and the right-wing media machine target him and his admin with this "OBAMAGATE" conspiracy theory: https://t.co/dxQF9ZXIIn

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 14, 2020

Weird how an ex-President is telling people to vote while the current one is encouraging people not to vote.

— Denise Wu (@denisewu) May 14, 2020

This is amazing. Trump has tried to reduce this race to one-word tweets like “Obamagate” and so President Obama is tweeting the only word in all of this that matters: “Vote.”

— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) May 14, 2020

Vote like our lives depend on it. Because our lives depend on it.https://t.co/HPQzihpz1q https://t.co/8Sz1shxr0f

— Adam Rifkin 🐼 (@ifindkarma) May 14, 2020

OMG, how to decipher this? https://t.co/dcFcGAuxjd

— David Emery 😷 (@debunker) May 14, 2020

I'm loving the new "I'm tweeting every day and you can't stop me from being awesome" Obama. https://t.co/6GfyLvlDnu

— Aurora Browne (@aurorabrowne) May 14, 2020

What he said. https://t.co/qfK5oHyFba

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 14, 2020

NEXT ON HANNITY: Socialist Obama Encourages Mass Voter Fraud with Order for Illegals to Stuff Ballot Boxes https://t.co/DP1aEGya0u

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) May 14, 2020

Will do.#Biden2020 https://t.co/iXWbmU1nsJ

— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) May 14, 2020

The subtweet of this... 😂😂😂😂😂 https://t.co/txoQW4xOsG

— Adam Holisky (@AdamHolisky) May 14, 2020

This is how a real President tweets. Thank you, @BarackObama. We miss you. #TrumpsJealousOfObama #TrumpPandemic #TrumpVirus #TrumpPlague #TrumpCrash https://t.co/oNZLGABCLx

— Alan Bennett Ilagan (@alanilagan) May 14, 2020

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