US President Donald Trump shared a racist video on Thursday night (5 February) that showed former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, like primates in the middle of the jungle.
The video caused controversy (even more so in the first week of the month in which black history is honored in the USA) and has since been removed from Truth Social, with the White House pointing a finger at an employee, claiming that he was the one who shared the video, but also devaluing the situation.
“This is from a meme Internet viral that portrays President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King,” spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told the AP news agency in a text message, referring to the 1994 Disney film.Please stop this fake outrage and report something that really matters to the American public,” he added.
Obama, the first black president of the USA and who was in the White House for two terms, from 2009 to 2017, did not react to the video lasting just over a minute, shared overnight by Trump on his social network.
The video talked about the alleged tampering of ballot boxes in the 2020 presidential elections and, almost at the end, two primates appeared in the scene, with the faces of Barack and Michelle Obama superimposed, to the sound of the Lion King song.
This scene was taken from a longer video previously released by an influential video creator. memes conservative, which places Trump as the “King of the Jungle” and portrays several Democratic leaders as animals, including Joe Biden as a primate eating a banana.
Trump’s message on social media was promptly criticized, including by allies of the president, such as Republican Senator Tim Scott (who is black).
“I pray it’s fake, because it’s the most racist thing I’ve ever seen come from this White House.”wrote Scott in X, arguing that the president should delete the publication.
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