Trump posts racist video of the Obamas

Is there a link?

Yes, he will get away with it because most of his supporters are racist and hate the Obamas.

I don't have a link but it has flagged up twice on my Youtube and Facebook pages today.

In response to a video President Trump posted Thursday depicting the Obamas as monkeys, press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Politico: "This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King. Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public." She shared the full video, which also depicted Hillary Clinton as a boar and Hakeem Jeffries as a meerkat, but neither were included in Trump's post.

From what I can gather, this was made by digital creator and Trump supporter Xerias:

www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1363506778783518

President Biden is also depicted as an ape and Kamala Harris a tortoise.

I haven't seen the video and I don't want to. There is a report of it in the Guardian. His press secretary, Karoline Leavitt says we should "stop the fake outrage" which just about sums up the regime in the USA currently.

Anybody else read about Ms martinez a nursery teacher who was driving to a church with donations.
Passing ICE agents rammed her car and then shot her 5 times.
Sorry no link.
Miraculously she survived. Chicago.
Testifying before Congress Feb 2026.

That gives the whole thing more context Graphite 👍🏻

Leavitts job is to tell lies which place Trump in a good light no matter what he does. She is despicable. He is below the lowest

It is overt racism.

Oreo

That gives the whole thing more context Graphite 👍🏻

No it doesn't, "give it more. context" at all.

Because Trump himself selected a part and posted it on Truth Social.

He didn't have to. He chose to

Guilty as charged.

Hopefully alienating more chunks of US voters.

Worm of a man. Disgusting.

I am outraged and not in a fake way that Trump posts a video of himself as King/Lion of the jungle and Democrat individuals as lesser animals - specifically the Obamas as monkeys- a well known centuries old racist trope. He does not include any republicans at all in a lesser, racist way.

I disagree with Caroline Leavitt and think it is very sad that the US has sunk so low that it considers racist posts from its president are acceptable.

Wyllow3

Oreo

That gives the whole thing more context Graphite 👍🏻

No it doesn't, "give it more. context" at all.

Because Trump himself selected a part and posted it on Truth Social.

He didn't have to. He chose to

Guilty as charged.

Hopefully alienating more chunks of US voters.

Worm of a man. Disgusting.

You took the words out of my keyboard, Wyllow3.

It’s racist, no ifs no buts - disgusting racism
What is happening in the USA

I agree that it is racist. The creator could have depicted the Obamas as any other animal but chose apes ... and now Trump has chosen that particualar clip as part of his nightly rants on Truth Social.

This has made me look back of some of Gerald Scarfe’s political cartoons. He depicted both Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May as dogs. Even though I disliked their politics, depictions of women as dogs is offensive. One of the government’s campaigns to publicise the change in state pension age for women was called Working Dogs, equally offensive.

How much lower can this dreadful man sink?

It does give it context, it was something supplied by a Rebublican Trump fan, it wasn’t only about Obama it about lots of Democrats.Biden was depicted as an ape, and he’s white so it’s nothing to do with race.
It’s typical that Trump would like Democrats to be portrayed as lower animals while he himself is presumably a lion, the king of the jungle.
I don’t like anything about Trump, not a single thing but this meme doesn’t mean it’s about race.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/trump-racist-video-barack-michelle-obama

For anyone wants a link

Oreo showing Biden as an ape won’t hit home to Biden in the same way it will to the Obamas and their children who will have been subjected to racist taunts like this before.
Whether Trump intended to be racist is beside the point if the Obama’s feel offended and hurt by this video due to what is often used as a racist meme.
My guess is the Obama’s probable expect as much, but that doesn’t make it okay.

Context? What's all this about context? A racist cartoon about the Obamas, posted on by Trump.
I don't need context, to spot racism when I see it.

Of course it’s racist. There are still occasionally monkey chants and bananas thrown at footballers, black not white footballers

But Biden is white.

It’s an all round insulting meme but I don’t see everything as racist.

It really doesn't matter whether you like Trump or not. It is irrelevant whether the Obamas were the only 2 others in the video or not. It's irrelevant that Biden was depicted as an ape compared the choice that the Obamas were depicted as apes. The choice specifically to depict the Obamas as monkeys was in the full knowledge that this would be perceived as a well known racist trope. Is Trump ignorant of this - I doubt it. Is Caroline Levitt making excuses for Trump as she is paid to do on a regular basis- most likely- or perhaps she is ignorant and racist also.

The association of black people with apes was systematically spread throughout pseudo science and propaganda in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. This was done to justify the systems of plantation slavery, colonialism and racial violence by making it seem acceptable to treat Black people as property rather than human beings. I have no doubt Trump has full knowledge of the history of plantation slavery in his own country and if not he ought to.

Here's some more "context" - Tim Scott, the only black Republican senator in Congress has condemned the racist video, saying "Praying it was fake because it's the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House, the President should remove it".

Trump may not have created the video but he chose to re-post that particular segment, demonstrating his approval of it.

Well we all have different views on anything and everything.
It actually does matter that I don’t like or approve of anything that Trump does, as it would be quite different if I was a Trump supporter generally.I just don’t see the whole meme as a racist one.I don’t mind at all what others think on this subject.