The President of the United States of America plays a racist satire of another President and his wife in a social media post….
This IS America Today…..
*Update….
President Trump on Friday deleted a video first posted on his social media account late Thursday that included a brief clip of former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama depicted as apes.
The video was immediately criticized as racist by Democrats, and drew a particularly forceful response from Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the only Black Republican senator and a close ally of the president. He called it “the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House” and prayed it was a mistake.
The White House initially defended the depiction, saying it was from a meme related to “The Lion King” in which Trump is the king of the jungle and Democrats are characterized as various animals. But, by midday Friday, the video was taken down, and a White House official told The Hill it was posted by mistake.
“A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down,” the White House official said….
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), the sole Black Republican member of the Senate, wrote on X that he was “praying” the video “was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House.”
“The President should remove it,” Scott, who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, added….
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The clip, shared in the middle of Black History Month, was one of several posted to Trump’s account overnight. Other posts included an eight-minute-long video reposting another user of the social media platform who said it was aimed to “educate” viewers “on Black Conservative history all February.” A different commentary video called the Democratic Party “anti-Black.”
Trump made gains with minority groups during the 2024 presidential election. Trump won about 15percent of Black voters, roughlydoubling his share from four years earlier and garnering the largest share of the Black vote of any Republican presidential candidate in at leasta quarter-century. Since taking office, however, his approval rating among Black Americans has dropped.
A notable number of Republican lawmakers broke sharply with the White House on Friday after President Trump posted — and later deleted — a video on social media that included a clip of former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama depicted as apes.
Republicans have generally been careful about voicing criticisms of Trump, and Friday’s episode began with a more typical partisan line, with Democrats quick to condemn the video as racist.
But then Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.) — a close Trump ally and the only Black Republican in the Senate — soon joined them, paving the way for others in his party to publicly disavow the post.
“Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House,” Scott said early Friday, addressing the video in a post on the social platform X.
“The President should remove it,” the senator added….
Those damn uh “staffers.”
Why would the White House initially defend a racist “staffer?l
One can only imagine the hate filled pieces of trash that inhabit that edifice.
So, they will have us believe that all the Truth Social posts going out at all hours are not being sent or even seen personally by Trump. That may actually be true but sounds like an AutoPen equivalent.
U REALLY think someone put that shit up without Donald ‘s ok?????
COME ON!
Yeah, he has a team for that. Always has.
In regards to Stephen Miller. Nobody but political junkies know who he is. He has spent the last week continuing to interact on the air and online with MAGA outlets.
Ok…..
Thanks…….
Staying out of the national media spotlight
This whole push back IS ‘cooling his heels’
And he IS known across the spectrum in DC
Funny Tweet I saw. “The staffer’s name is John Barron.”
Trump posted that it was an accident that “the young intern apologizes” for.
So, Trump would have us believe he is having young interns have control of his Truth Social account after dark with the power to endorse candidates or potentially start wars, etc.
Either it was Trump himself or more likely, a senior, long-time staffer such as Dan Scavino who put it out there but will of course not be fired.
I agree.. .
Donald seldom to NEVER cops to a mistake
The Why?
Trump Took Down Racist Post After Call with Tim Scott
“President Trump called Sen. Tim Scott on Friday after the South Carolina Republican publicly urged the president to remove a reposted video depicting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes,” CBS News reports.
“During the conversation, Mr. Trump told Scott, who is chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, that the repost was a staffer’s mistake and said he would take it down.”
Donald Trump- “I did not have textual relations with that young intern….”
Ok, Ron Gunzburger got me. He posted something Trump said in October 2015 and I thought it was new. Never mind!
No apologies from them
Now, I feel duped. I legitimately thought Trump posted today about a “young intern” making the post. Maybe I need to get back to my real job.
You know Tim Scott’s denouncing Trumps post of the Obamas as “ the most racist “ thing to come out of this administration seems to imply that there have been other racist stuff too.
I mean if this is the “ most?” Well there must have been others.
Please Senator elucidate the others and then explain why you continue to support these hate filled slimeballs.
More….
Former Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday accused the White House and President Trump of a cover-up for blaming a staffer for posting a since-deleted video depicting former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes.
“No one believes this cover up from the White House, especially since they originally defended the post,” Harris wrote on the social platform X. “We are all clear-eyed about who Donald Trump is and what he believes.”…
More….
Comedian Bill Maher on Friday called the White House “f—ing hypocrites” over what he called a “rather lame” defense of a since-deleted video depicting former President Obama and former Michelle Obama as apes.
The host, on a recent episode of “Real Time,” referred to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s initial defense of the video where she said it was an “internet meme.”
Bonus Quote of the Day
“I am, by the way, the least racist president you’ve had in a long time, as far as I’m concerned.”
President Trump, speaking to reporters.
Quote of the Day
“You can kiss the midterms goodbye.”
— Former Trump Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, on NewsNation, after President Trump shared a racist post of the Obamas.
Trump Won’t Apologize for Racist Post
“President Donald Trump declined to apologize for sharing a social media video that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, saying he did not realize the image of the former president and first lady was tacked on to the end of the clip,” the Washington Post reports.
Said Trump: “No, I didn’t make a mistake. I look at a lot of — thousands of things. And I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine.”
Trump Suggests He Greenlit Posting Racist Obama Video
President Donald Trump can’t keep the White House’s story straight about how the racist video of the Obamas came to be posted to his social media.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump suggested he surfaced the clip in the since-deleted post, saying he “gave it to the people” to post for him without watching the whole thing.
“I looked at it, I saw it, and I just looked at the first part. It was about voter fraud,” Trump began when asked if the person responsible for the post would be fired. Earlier, a White House spokesperson said someone “erroneously” posted the clip.
“I didn’t see the whole thing,” Trump continued. “I guess during the end of it, there was some kind of a [inaudible] that people don’t like. I wouldn’t like it either, but I didn’t see it. I looked at the first part, and it was really about voter fraud.”
“Then I gave it to the people,” Trump continued, ostensibly referring to his staff. “Generally they look at the whole thing, but I guess somebody didn’t, and they posted it. And we took it down.”
The video was live on his account for nearly 12 hours and was only taken down following pushback from Republicans.
Trump bristled when asked if he’d be apologizing for the incident.
“No, I didn’t make a mistake. I mean, you give — I look at a lot, thousands of things. I looked at the beginning of it; it was fine,” he said.
“I guess it was a takeoff on ‘The Lion King’ … Nobody knew that that was in the end,” he continued. “If they’d have looked, they would have seen it, and probably they would have had the sense to take it down.”