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The president of the United States, Donald Trump shared a video on his social networks this Thursday that shows the former Democratic president Barack Obama and the former first lady Michelle Obama as apes.
The Obamas, with their faces superimposed on the bodies of primates, appear briefly and at the end of this video generated by artificial intelligence, in which false claims are made that voting machines helped steal the 2020 elections, one of the Republican’s constant mantras since his defeat.
The publication incurs the classic racist cliché of comparing blacks with monkeys used for a long time to dehumanize people of African descent.
BREAKING: Trump just posted a video on Truth Social that includes a racist image of Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys.
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— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) February 6, 2026
Therefore, it has provoked a wave of criticism from prominent political figures, including Republican Senator Tim Scotta Trump ally who is black.
“I pray it’s false, because it’s the most racist thing I’ve ever seen in this White House.”Scott said in X. “The president should eliminate it.”
White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt, afirHe said the publication had generated “false outrage” and added that “This is an internet meme video that represents President Trump as the King of the Jungle and the Democrats as characters from The Lion KingTrump’s video included a song from that musical.
Los white supremacists have for centuries depicted people of African descent as monkeys as part of campaigns to dehumanize and dominate black populations.
“Let it torment Trump and his racist followers that future Americans accept the Obamas as beloved figures while studying him as a stain on our history,” he said. Ben Rhodes, former Obama advisor, in X.
A long racist history
Trump has behind him a history of racist rhetoric and long promoted the false conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
Last year, the president released an apparent AI video showing Barack Obama being arrested in the Oval Office.
In December, Trump described Somalis as “trash” who should be kicked out of the country.
Trump and members of his Administration also shared digitally altered images and videos of the House Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries, with a fake mustache and a hatimages that the mayor himself publicly described as racist.
Civil rights advocates have charged that Trump’s rhetoric has become increasingly bold, normalized and politically permissible.
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