The publication of an image of the former president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as apes in a message in the networks social of the president Donald Trump caused outrage in States Joined this Friday, and forced the Casa Blanca to delete it, after attributing its dissemination to a “error“.
The one-second meme appeared inserted into a video that Trump hung on his platform Truth Socialwith conspiracy theories about the 2020 elections, which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
Previously the spokesperson for the Casa Blanca, Caroline Leavitthad criticized the controversy surrounding the video, calling it “false indignation“starring critics of the Republican president.
“A member of the staff of the Casa Blanca made the publication by mistake. It has already been eliminated,” declared a government official.
Trump distances himself from racist publication, says he did not see it
Trump He said Friday that he “didn’t watch” the entire video before posting it.
“I only saw the first part… and I didn’t see the whole thing,” he said Trump to journalists, and added that he “passed it on” to his team to publish it and that they didn’t see it complete either.
The image is actually part of another, satirical video, apparently created by a follower of Trumpin which the Republican president appears as a lion, king of the jungle, and numerous politicians, including the Obamas, as animals that pay homage to him, or that perform antics.
Addicted to social networks, Trump It usually republishes all kinds of videos, documents and memes, some created with artificial intelligence, with humorous content or not.
Leading Democratic figures condemned the post as “racist.”
“Please stop the false outrage and publish something today that really matters to the American public,” asked the spokesperson for Trump in a statement.
By early Friday morning, the video had received several thousand likes on the president’s social platform.
The Obamas have not spoken until now.
The former vice president Kamala Harriswhich has frequently condemned the divisive racial rhetoric of Trumpcriticized the decline of the Casa Blanca in a post on X on Friday.
“No one believes this cover-up by the White House, especially given that they originally defended this publication,” wrote the former Democratic candidate who lost the presidential election to the Republican. “We are all very clear about who he is. Donald Trump and what he believes in,” he added.
Reactions
The governor’s office California, Gavin Newsoma possible Democratic presidential candidate in 2028 and a prominent critic of Trump, attacked the publication.
“Disgusting behavior by the president. Every Republican must denounce it. Now,” he wrote in X the account of the press office of Newsom.
An African-American Republican senator, Tim Scott, a Trump supporter, also reacted negatively.
“I pray it’s fake, because it’s the most racist thing I’ve ever seen come out of this Casa Blanca. The president should withdraw it,” he asked X.
Another Republican senator, Roger Wickerconsidered it “totally unacceptable” and asserted that “the president should withdraw it and apologize.”
Ben Rhodesformer senior national security advisor and close confidant of Barack Obamaalso condemned the images.
“Americans of the future will embrace the Obamas as beloved figures while he [Trump] They will study it as a stain on our history,” he wrote in X.
Conspiracy
Obama He is the only black president in the history of the United States and supported the 2024 a Harris.
Trump has long maintained a bitter rivalry with Obama (2009-2017), and has shown particular anger at the Democrat’s popularity and the fact that he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
In the first year of his second term in office Casa BlancaTrump has intensified his use of hyperrealistic but manufactured images IA in Truth Social and other platforms, often glorifying himself while mocking his critics.
Last year, Trump published a video generated by artificial intelligence that showed Obama being arrested in Dispatch Oval and then behind bars.
Later, he posted a clip of IA of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries with a fake mustache and charro hat. Jeffries called the image racist.
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