CNN host Jake Tapper enraged liberals on social media Sunday after he called out former President Barack Obama for attending a Jay-Z concert despite the vulnerable state of the Democratic Party going into the midterm elections.

“The Democratic Party is the weakest it has been since the 1920s,” wrote Mr. Tapper, complete with a shoulder shrug emoji.

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 CNN chief Washington correspondent was responding to a tweet by HuffPost that said Mr. Obama and his wife Michelle were “spotted dancing to ‘N***as in Paris’ at Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s show on Saturday.”

Mr. Tapper’s tweet was retweeted more than 2,000 times as of Monday afternoon but was met with a whopping 7,000 responses — a Twitter trend known as getting “ratioed” for a tweet deemed unpopular.

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

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

Mr. Tapper responded to economist David Rothschild’s tweet, pointing out that Mr. Obama “presided over a historically precipitous decline of his party.”

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

He followed up with an article by PolitiFact, which fact-checked and rated as “true” CNN host Fareed Zakaria’s claim in June that the party was at nearly its weakest point in a century.

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