Trump Deletes Video Post Depicting Obamas as Apes

President 👤Donald Trump posted then deleted a video on Truth Social that depicted former President Obama and former first lady 👤Michelle Obama as apes.

Many on both sides of the aisle criticized the post, per The Hill.

Sen. Tim Scott(R-S.C.), the only Black Republican senator, posted on X, “Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it.”

The White House initially said the video was from a meme related to “The Lion King” in which Trump is the king of the jungle and Democrats are characterized as various animals.

However, by midday Friday, the video was taken down, and a White House official said it was posted by mistake.

“A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down,” the White House official said.

An ally of Trump’s said the president did not know about the video before it was posted. The official said the staffer “really let the president down” by posting the video.

The complete video focused on an unsubstantiated voting fraud theory seeking to explain “some of the anomalies that we noticed in the 2020 general elections.”

In the last couple of seconds, the video flashed to a scene with the Obamas’ heads superimposed on primates’ bodies. With their mouths wide open, the Obamas’ heads bounced along to the song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” from “The Lion King.”