J.K. Rowling tweets unhappily about photos of Obama, and people joined right in
J.K. Rowling (Credit: Getty/Angela Weiss)
Five years ago this Monday, Barack Obama was re-elected president of the United States. Now, with Donald Trump in the White House, the moment had certain people filled with a unique and aching nostalgia.
Indeed, you’ve probably seen an uptick of posts on Facebook and Twitter commemorating the anniversary and wistfully reminiscing about what it was like to have a president who could formulate a coherent policy objective (or a coherent sentence, for that matter).
Author J.K. Rowling was among those who, with a heavy heart, tweeted about how times have changed. “People keep retweeting these Obama anniversary tweets into my timeline and it’s like stumbling on pictures of the ex who broke your heart,” she wrote.
People keep retweeting these Obama anniversary tweets into my timeline and it's like stumbling on pictures of the ex who broke your heart. https://t.co/fmzZqg5HO8
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) November 6, 2017
#PresidentObama is the one great guy that was treated like crap for 8 years, did what he could to make the relationship work & left.
— Lucy Sharvet (@Scarletjedi) November 6, 2017
Some took it a step further:
did he break your heart, though?
i think that maybe he's more like that ex that died too soon and you're still mourning it
— o meu também é beth (@rafavnt) November 6, 2017
that's it! nailed it.
— o meu também é beth (@rafavnt) November 6, 2017
More like the ex who was perfect and you ruined I️t.
— Shauna Prentice (@ShaunaJPrentice) November 6, 2017
And the GIFs were just too real:
— Sarita PITA (@yourmomSarita) November 6, 2017
— (((Miss Cohen))) (@LRCIndy_MSW) November 6, 2017
https://twitter.com/xoxo_Tee/status/9...
Others provided a harsh reality check:
Obama didn't break our hearts. 62 million trump voters did.
— Paul NaNoWriMo (@PaulWartenberg) November 6, 2017
https://twitter.com/i_am_karchies/sta...
But as always, the haters joined the thread too:
— Sleepy Girl (@power_gingy) November 6, 2017
you don't even live in america lol
— Crazybv (@iCrazybv) November 6, 2017
While some thought Rowling shouldn’t even bring up the issue, as she neither lives in the U.S. nor is a U.S. citizen, most took her side.
Which makes Trump your new bad-boy boyfriend who'll probably end up in jail #fingerscrossed
— Paul Ilett
