CNN’s Jake Tapper ribbed former President Obama on the current state of the Democratic Party on Sunday, calling it “the weakest it has been since the 1920s” in responding to a story in HuffPost showing the former first couple at a concert by Jay-Z and Beyoncé over the weekend.

“The Democratic Party is the weakest it has been since the 1920s,” wrote Tapper, who shared a tweet from HuffPost with the comment that showed the Obamas dancing to the song “N----- in Paris” at the concert.

The Democratic Party is the weakest it has been since the 1920s, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/ATqKBx4bq0 — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 29, 2018

The tweet was replied to more than 6,400 times, retweeted almost 2,000 times and liked more than 7,400 times.

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Some people on Twitter took umbrage at Tapper’s tweet.

Don't understand the point of this conversation. Does @jaketapper think Obama should be back in US leading Democrats or blaming @BarackObama for leaving Democrats in an incredibly weak position or just making random observation? — David Rothschild (@DavMicRot) July 29, 2018

Kind of a combo of 2 and 3. Glad he’s enjoying his life; he’s entitled. Also, FYI, as we begin focus on Nov 2018 and 2020, he presided over a historically precipitous decline of his party. Just a factual matter. Some Dems seem angrier at my tweet than at that fact. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 29, 2018

y'know what? you deserve a gutter response for that. if you people had done your actual job instead of snickering and being oh-so-clever about Trump and his chances we wouldn't be where we are now. a little less snark from you, please, "journalist," a lot more ED MURROW. — Game of Thornes (@GeoffThorne) July 30, 2018

This isn’t a good take, Jake. It’s a bad tweet. — Caissie St.Onge (@Caissie) July 29, 2018

Tapper's assessment appears to be based on a PolitiFact fact-check of colleague Fareed Zakaria's statement in June on Democratic representation in Congress and governorships.

“When you tally up their representation in Congress and governorships, the Democrats almost have their lowest representation in about 100 years,” Zakaria said on June 15.

PolitiFact fact-checked Zakaria and found the statement to be “true.”

“Zakaria is right: The Democratic Party is at nearly its weakest point in a century,” PolitiFact concluded.

CNBC reported in June that sources close to Obama saying he is expected to begin campaigning for some Democratic congressional candidates in September.