US EditionA Pattern of Denial: The Obama Cartoon and Racialized Governance
Trump said the video was part of a longer voter fraud message and no staffer was fired despite initial White House claims blaming a staffer for the post.
- President Donald Trump on Thursday said no staffer has been fired over a Truth Social post featuring a racist clip of Barack and Michelle Obama.
- The disputed footage came from a longer video on alleged voter fraud, with a short `The Lion King`-style segment that circulated for years and was posted nearly a week ago, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said last Friday.
- President Trump defended the post to reporters on Thursday, calling the voter-fraud video a `very strong piece on voter fraud` and saying he had looked at the start and found it fine.
- The White House removed the post, blamed an unnamed staffer, and later on Friday Trump said he ordered the video to be posted to his account.
- Facing calls from both parties, the episode raised fresh accountability questions after the clip was widely condemned as racist and Sen. Tim Scott urged its removal from the White House.
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Sen. Moreno among Ohio Republicans silent on Trump’s racist Obama video
In January 2018, I wrote a letter to the editor of The Plain Dealer asking, “Where is the line”? I was referring to what I considered to be outrageous statements and actions by Donald Trump during his first term as president, and I listed just a few. I urged the members of Congress to ask themselves why they haven’t said “Enough ... he is not fit to be President, and I’m willing to say it.”
Donald Trump Reveals Fate of Staffer He Blamed for Racist Obamas Video
Photo Credit: SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images Not all actions have consequences. Donald Trump has updated people following a controversial post made about Barack and Michelle Obama. The video posted to his Truth Social depicts the former President and First Lady as apes. Donald says that one of his staff members published the racist post on his account on February 5. The video was discussing voter fraud and had depictions of Michelle and Barack…
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Trump Posts Video Reels Of Him Photographed With Black Celebrities, Apparently, To Prove He’s Not Racist
Source: The Washington Post / Getty Last week, President Donald Trump drew massive backlash and allegations of racism after he — or somebody on the White House staff, as the administration has claimed — posted to his Truth Social account a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. The AI-generated clip — which appeared at the end of a conspiracy video that suggested that 2020 election voting machines were rigged against Trump (so, yeah,…
A pattern of denial: The Obama cartoon and racialized governance
By George Cassidy Payne On a February morning in 2026, the opening days of Black History Month, something unthinkable appeared on the official social media platform of the President of the United States: a video inserting the faces of Barack and Michelle Obama onto cartoon apes, set to The Lion Sleeps Tonight. It flashed at the end of a broader montage promoting 2020 election conspiracies and remained online for roughly 12 hours before deletion.…
Trump Shuts Down Reporter’s Attempt To Revive Obamas Monkey ‘Racism’ Hoax
President Trump confirmed Thursday that he hasn’t fired or disciplined the staffer who posted a Truth Social clip exposing Michigan’s 2020 voter fraud—despite leftist hysteria over an auto-played Lion King meme snippet depicting the Obamas as monkeys. The manufactured scandal saw RINOs and liberals demanding heads roll, but Trump dismissed it as a tired clip that’s “been all over the place many times,” focusing instead on the video’s core messag…
Trump Reveals What Happened to Staffer Who Was Blamed for Posting Racist Obamas Video | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip
Donald Trump revealed the fate of the staffer who was accused of posting a since-deleted video featuring the Obamas, which many deemed racist. On February 5, the 79-year-old president shared a video featuring unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud on his social media platform, Truth Social. The clip featured former President Barack and former first lady Michelle Obama‘s faces superimposed over apes, igniting calls that the Republican was enfor…
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