US EditionLetter: Racist Post by President a Sad Sign for Our Country
The post featured Pepe the Frog, a meme linked to white supremacy, and drew rare bipartisan condemnation, including from Sen. Tim Scott who called it 'the most racist thing' from the White House.
- Last week, President Donald Trump shared a clip on his social media account showing former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama with their heads on a monkey, and on Air Force One he said he `only saw the beginning` and refused to apologize.
- Trump's history of demeaning remarks includes questioning Obama's birth certificate, attacking Mexican immigrants as `drug dealers, criminals, and rapists` during his 2016 presidential campaign, and calling Somali immigrants `garbage`.
- The video also included Pepe the Frog, an internet meme added to a white supremacist symbol database during the 2016 presidential election, walking next to Trump's lion body.
- The post prompted bipartisan critics to condemn it, with South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott urging Trump to remove what he called the `most racist thing` from the White House.
- Historically, referring to Black Americans as primates has deep roots tied to historical dehumanization, fueling Jim Crow, lynching, and other violent abuses.
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Trump Continues To Struggle To Explain Away His Racist Obama Ape Video
Source: The Washington Post / Getty Of all the times President Donald Trump has been openly bigoted and disparaging of entire ethnic groups, he probably never expected that a simple AI-generated image of Barack and Michelle Obama depicted as apes would be the thing he was compelled to spend a whole week explaining away as he defended himself from an endless barrage of well-earned racism accusations. The commander-in-they’re-eating-the-cats-they’…
One leader's anti-Trump profanity is telling
A lot of attention has been given to Hakeem Jeffries recently on account of him dropping the f-bomb. In reaction to the president reposting a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, the House minority leader, in his own video, said “f--- Donald Trump.”I think it’s worth asking why Jeffries did that beyond the usual explanations. The conventional wisdom is that Trump’s video was so disgustingly racist that Jeffries was expressing an ap…
Thank you, Rev. McMickle, for calling out Trump’s racist portrayal of the Obamas
Kudos to the Rev. Marvin A. McMickle for speaking out against the blatantly racist post by President Donald Trump of the Obamas portrayed as primates ("The lion speaks tonight – and what he says is despicable,“ Feb. 13). How much more of this racist, anti-immigrant, narcissistic, bloviating man will we be able to withstand? It is time to expose the emperor who has no clothes. It is notable that the Obamas, classy people that they are, have not r…
The American president had published a video on his personal account with, at the end, a montage of the Obama spouses, the face hilarious on a monkey body, the jungle in the background.
Letter: Racist post by president a sad sign for our country
On Feb. 6, President Donald Trump shared a post depicting the Obamas’ faces on monkeys’ bodies. How was the president allowed to post such racist pictures on the internet for everyone to see? When Roseanne Barr made racist comments she was fired from her show. So, in this country where we all supposedly have equal rights, if you have extreme amounts of money and hold a presidential position, you can make derogatory remarks toward any person or r…
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