This is what Trump posted on X
Trump shares racist video depicting Obamas as apes
CBS NewsBy Melissa Quinn
Updated on: February 6, 2026President Trump posted to social media late Thursday an election-conspiracy video that includes racist footage depicting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes.
The video, which is just over a minute long, promotes false claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Mr. Trump. Toward the end of the video is a roughly two-second clip that shows the Obamas' heads edited onto the bodies of primates, with the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" playing.
Mr. Trump shared the video to his Truth Social account at 11:44 p.m. Thursday.
Obama was the nation's first Black president and Michelle Obama was the first Black first lady. Mr. Trump has a history of sharing disparaging and racist memes about the Obamas. The president also amplified for years a conspiracy theory that Obama was born in Kenya and therefore ineligible to serve as president. Amid pressure to disavow the so-called "birther" claim, Mr. Trump finally said during the 2016 presidential campaign that "President Obama was born in the United States. Period."
Trump true colors have come out! He follows in his father's KKK footsteps!
The Guardian writes that,
By 8.30am ET Friday, the post had attracted about 4,000 likes but also garnered outrage from both sides of the aisle for the inclusion of such a blatant racist trope about the US’s first Black president and his wife, both Democrats.
That also says a lot about his loyal followers!
“There’s no ‘misinterpretation’ and no excuse. This is who he is, who he’s always been, and why he should never be anywhere near power again. And there’s a reason the tapes from The Apprentice have never been released,” he said.
US President Donald Trump has removed a social media video which included a racist clip depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.The clip - set to the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight - was at the end of a 62-second video containing claims about voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.Republican Senator Tim Scott - who is black - had called for the president to remove the post, describing it as "the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House".The White House initially defended the clip as an "internet meme video" and told critics to "stop the fake outrage".The clip - which is reminiscent of racist caricatures comparing black people to monkeys - appears to be taken from an X post shared by conservative meme creator Xerias in October.That video also depicts several other high-profile Democrats as animals, including New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.Trump's predecessor in the White House, Joe Biden, also is depicted as an ape eating a banana.
How the hell did he think that this was appropriate!
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