US EditionObama Reacts to Trump’s AI Video Depicting Him as an Ape: ‘There Doesn’t Seem to Be Any Shame About This’
- On Feb 5, the Truth Social account posted an AI video showing Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, which was deleted after nearly 12 hours amid bipartisan outrage, and Obama addressed the incident in a podcast released Saturday.
- Appended to a longer post about alleged 2020 election fraud, the ape clip was traced to an X post by meme creator Xerias and blamed on an unnamed White House staffer.
- Speaking to Cohen, Obama said there is little shame among those who once valued decorum, describing the online environment as a 'clown show' and criticizing the loss of propriety in public life.
- Several Republican senators, including Senator Tim Scott and Senator Roger Wicker, condemned the post, while Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary, said it was shared 'erroneously' by a staffer.
- The episode has intensified concerns about AI-generated content, racist tropes linked to The Lion King imagery, and deteriorating norms amid disputes over immigration operations and the Department of Homeland Security's Feb 14 partial shutdown.
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Former U.S. President Barack Obama claimed that under Donald Trump's second administration, U.S. politics has become a "clown show," after a video showing him as his wife Michel Obama as apes was released. "I think it's important to recognize that most of the U.S. people find this behavior deeply troubling," Obama told host Brian Tyler Cohen on his podcast "No Lie." "There's a kind of clown show that is developing on social media and television."
A video released by the White House showed the heads of former U.S. President Obama and his wife on monkey bodies and caused a storm of indignation. Now Obama expresses himself for the first time. He laments a lack of "decency".
Obama responds to racist video shared by Trump depicting him and his wife as apes
In the same interview, Barack Obama criticised the "rogue behaviour" of federal agents in Minneapolis, saying similar activity has been previously "seen in dictatorships, but not… in America".
Barack Obama finds clear words after the recent derailment of the current US president. For the people in the country, however, values such as decency and kindness still count, says Obama.
Former US President Barack Obama has indirectly responded to Donald Trump's racist video depicting him and his wife Michelle as monkeys in a jungle on a podcast. In response to a question about political discourse, he referred to the "clown show" on social media and the decency that was once considered for public officials, but that it has been lost.
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