US EditionWhite House Removes Trump Post Depicting Obamas as Monkeys, Says It Was Posted in Error
- President Donald Trump shared late Thursday on Truth Social a post depicting former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes, which the White House said a staffer deleted Friday in error.
- The post was part of a flurry of Truth Social activity that night and republished material from external conspiratorial and meme accounts focusing on voting machines in battleground states.
- A close look at the minute-long video shows that at the 60-second mark it briefly depicts two primates with the Obamas' faces and uses `The Lion Sleeps Tonight` audio, bearing a watermark-linked account behind prior AI videos.
- Bipartisan leaders and civil-rights groups condemned the post, with NAACP President Derrick Johnson calling it `Donald Trump's video is blatantly racist, disgusting, and utterly despicable.`
- The incident fits a pattern of reposting AI-generated memes from Trump and White House social accounts and echoes 18th-century cultural racism and pseudo-scientific tropes.
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