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Trump posts video meme showing Barack, Michelle Obama as apes 02/06/26(Fri)23:14:09 No.1487188
Trump posts video meme showing Barack, Michelle Obama as apes 02/06/26(Fri)23:14:09 No.1487188
Trump posts video meme showing Barack, Michelle Obama as apes Anonymous 02/06/26(Fri)23:14:09 No.1487188 [Reply]▶
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Washington — President Donald Trump shared a clip of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama appearing as apes in a late-night Truth Social post on Feb. 5 before taking it down the following day amid bipartisan pushback.
The roughly minute-long video centered on footage discussing unsubstantiated voter fraud allegations in the 2020 presidential election before briefly flipping to the clip of the Obamas.
The image of the Obamas, which appeared to have been generated by artificial intelligence, showed the bodies of two apes whose faces have been replaced by that of the former president and first lady. They appeared to be in a jungle with apes flying in the background.
The White House initially dismissed criticism that the video was racist, and said it is from a meme depicting Trump and the Obamas as characters from the Lion King. Trump does not appear in the video, which he posted just before midnight on Feb. 5 with no accompanying text.
But by noon ET on Feb. 6 ‒ after the post had been up about 12 hours ‒ it no longer appeared on Truth Social. A White House official told USA TODAY on Feb. 6 a White House staffer had erroneously made the post and that it was taken down.
The video was among more than 90 posts from Trump's Truth Social account made during a rapid flurry of activity that started at 10:36 p.m. ET on Feb. 5 and ended 12:25 a.m. ET. Yet a close Trump ally, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the president had no knowledge of the post and that a staffer let Trump down.
A small group of trusted White House officials have access to the president's social media accounts. A 2024 documentary, "Art of the Surge: The Donald Trump Comeback," showed Trump dictating to Natalie Harp, executive assistant to the president, what to write in one of his posts.
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In the original meme that the White House referred to, Trump's head is superimposed on the body of a lion. Faces of other politicians, including former President Joe Biden, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and U.S. Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also appear superimposed on animals in the original video.
"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," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement prior to the post being removed.
USA TODAY has reached out to the Obamas for comment.
Social media denounces Trump's racist post of Obamas
Many on social media quickly denounced the portrayal as racist, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle denounced the post and called on the president to apologize.
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U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said he was "praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it."
U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, said the post was "totally unacceptable" and called on the president to apologize.
"Even if this was a Lion King meme, a reasonable person sees the racist context to this. The White House should do what anyone does when they make a mistake: remove this and apologize," wrote U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, on X.
Newsom's press office called on Republicans to speak out about the video in a post on X.
"Disgusting behavior by the President," the post said. "Every single Republican must denounce this. Now."
In response to Trump's post, the X account Republicans Against Trump said, "there's no bottom."
Ben Rhodes, a former deputy national security adviser under President Obama, also decried the image.
"Let it haunt Trump and his racist followers that future Americans will embrace the Obamas as beloved figures while studying him as a stain on our history," Rhodes wrote on X.
Harry Sisson, a Democratic political influencer, called the video "incredibly racist and disgusting."
"Beneath the office of the presidency, like everything he does. Every American must condemn this," Sisson wrote on X.
U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Illinois, wrote, "Last night, the president shared a racist AI-generated video attacking the Obamas. This kind of Jim Crow–style dehumanization is pathetic and a disgrace to the office.
Torrey Smith, a former NFL wide receiver, said it is "embarrassing and disappointing" on X.
"Choosing to side with him is agreeing with him. My personal line is drawn with people and I move accordingly," Smith said.
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>>1487216
He not only TACO'd but he tried to blame random staffer who magically went into his bedroom in the middle of the night, took his phone and posted it.
And this isn't the first time the tried that lie to cover for the far right's racism either.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/medgar-evers-national-park-brochure-rac ist_n_698603a9e4b0fa2b17040192
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>>1487241
Given you only get all your news from the twitter bubble, you wouldn't have a problem
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/2/5/2367392/-Trump-is-popular-on ly-in-Elon-Musk-s-racist-online-ces spool
Civilized society on the other hand does.
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>>1487250
You jackbooted thugs are trying to turn civilized society into a fascist shithole, and civilized society is resisting. You can bullshit about rapists and murderers all you want, civilized society isn’t buying it.
>A little bit of racism is mandatory at this point.
You have no place in civilized society.
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>>1487261
Effigy destructions are a form of traditional political protest going back centuries.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effigy
Also, she got fucking fired for that bullshit and she wasn't the fucking president. You don't get to even attempt to equate that shit until Trump's suffered the same consequence and even then you can choke on your mother's cock for implying the two are remotely comparable.
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>>1487269
ww 2 was only 70 years ago its still relevant stop trying to downplay your crimes against humanity and die.
>>1487274
then everyone who cheered her on should be systematically captured and sentenced to the electric chair only then will your sins be cleansed.
>implying the two are remotely comparable.
nice double standards one is a racist joke the other is a call for murder you're right they aren't comparable you're a vile horrendous human being who should die painfully because that's what u keep wishing for to others
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>>1487259
>there's nothing wrong with the video
>Trump gets the video deleted after the backlash and blames some intern because he totally didn't post it
So it's not racist and Trump is a cowardly cuck who bows to pressure or it's racist and Trump is still a cowardlt cuck who bows to pressure?
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You're all being goaded to civil war. Both sides are complicit in the destruction of any form of American values. They push for the same thing from different angles, though it may look like two vastly different paths, it leads exactly where they want.
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>>1487293
And the other side constantly summons zerg mobs to assault random people in the streets whenever dems need a distraction from fraud they got caught doing again.
>Minnesota gets caught
>suddenly mobs beating people in the streets
>Los Angeles gets caught
>suddenly mobs beating people in the streets
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>>1487291
nigga here's the bare minimum that the POTUS needs to do to not provoke civil conflict
>don't constantly post insulting posts on social media portraying your political opponents as lower animals
that's fucking it, did Obama achieve this? yes he did, did Biden achieve this? yes he did, who isn't passing this test? answer this question please before you talk about the both sides bullshit
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>>1487299
>>don't constantly post insulting posts on social media portraying your political opponents as lower animals
So what democrats constantly do to Trump, Republicans, conservative civilians outside of government, voters, etc.
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>>1487299
>don't constantly post insulting posts on social media portraying your political opponents as lower animals
Dems tried to kill him three times. And then they killed charlie kirk. And then they locked down the twin cities because a commie jew got yeeted for continuously fucking with the feds.
This is not a Trump problem. This is the left being certifiably insane.
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>>1487304
Okay so how does that make Obama a monkey?
This thread is about the POTUS' behavior, it's a much higher standard than what's applied to a random crazy with a gun.
Actually I know the answer, you're just throwing irrelevant bullshit to derail the discussion. Trump's post was so fucking stupid it was the rare occasion that GOP was actually sorta kinda against him. Even they don't agree with your slavish devotion.
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>>1487303
>Link one kikebook/shitter post where Obongo or Sleepy Joe called Trump mean names.
Seriously?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7930211/Obama-called-Donald-T rump-fascist-2016-election.html
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/05/30/barack-obama-called-dona ld-trump-a-cartoon-after-2016-elect ion/
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obamas-long-history-insultin g-donald-trump/story?id=43442367
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/barack-obama-donald-trump-unfi t
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/us/politics/president-obama-donald- trump.html
https://www.thestreet.com/politics/here-s-3-of-president-obama-s-best- trump-insults-13888536
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/11/politics/biden-trump-unhinged-seatt le/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentR ecirc_end_recirc
https://nypost.com/2024/06/05/opinion/joe-biden-called-trump-a-convict ed-felon-in-latest-speech-letters/
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/07/14/joe-biden-called-tr ump-a-genuine-threat-to-this-nation -before-assassination-attempt/
https://www.westernjournal.com/michelle-obama-insults-millions-trump-s upporters-calling-unity/
https://www.aol.com/news/loser-biden-steps-personal-insults-024609701. html?guccounter=1
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/30/biden-insults-trump-ca mpaign
https://electionwire.com/biden-insults-trump/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uftIR_L_iyo
>We've been calling the right everything from fascists to racists, encouraged our voters to violently attack them, and laughed when they died. How dare they call us animals!!!
Suck my dick, hypocrite. You animals started this game of dehumanizing political opponents as far back as 2015.
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>>1487306
>You animals started this game
Your abcnews link quite plainly states:
>The tension largely stems from Trump's dogged pursuit of the so-called birther theory. He regularly and publicly questioned where Obama was born and whether he was a legitimate U.S. citizen.
Sucking dick seems like a good job for you actually, it doesn't need you to read well.
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>>1487304
>And then they locked down the twin cities because a commie jew got yeeted for continuously fucking with the feds.
What are you even trying to say here?
>>1487306
>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7930211/Obama-called-Donald- Trump-fascist-2016-election.html
I'm not even going to look at the others.
Trump isn't called a fascist as just an insult you fucking retard, he's called a fascists because he does and says fascist things.
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>>1487308
>I'm not even going to look at the others.
Of course not. Why look at over a dozen examples of Obama/Biden insulting Trump, after you falsely claimed they didn't insult him ever, when you can just cherry-pick the biased articles and say
>w-well yeah but he is a fascist so it's okay!
Keep crying, hypocrites. You've more than crossed the line by calling us nazis for over a decade, and for me the point of no return was watching you subhumans dance on TikTok over Charlie Kirk's death. None of you have any right to cry about name-calling now.
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>>1487310
I'll admit that Obama did insult Trump, but there's a large difference between the insult of calling someone "unfit" and labeling someone a monkey.
>Charlie Kirk's death
You care more about this than Kirk's widow. There's a good chance she danced a bit between then and now.
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>>1487310
>cherry-pick
I picked the first article you linked you fucking retard.
We kept calling you nazis for over a decade because you kept fucking acting like nazis. You still are. Calling people animals and subhumans? That's nothing new.
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>>1487311
>but there's a large difference between the insult of calling someone "unfit"
Or calling him a fascist, cartoon, stupid, etc. Nice try moving the goalposts from "He didn't call him any names" to "his name calling wasn't as bad."
>You care more about this than Kirk's widow.
I tend to care when half the country is laughing at one of ours being murdered, and then whines about how unfair it is that Trump posted a shitty meme on social media. Fuck off with your massive hypocrisy.
>>1487312
>We kept calling you nazis for over a decade because you kept fucking acting like nazis. You still are.
My point exactly. You can call us nazis for over a decade... but how dare Trump call Obama a monkey!!!!!!! I'm outraged! He ought to apologize!
Fuck off.
>Calling people animals and subhumans? That's nothing new.
And calling people fascists, racists and nazis is?
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>>1487313
>one of ours
Why do you say that? You knew him personally? Went out drinking with him a few times?
Nah it sounds like he didn't know who the fuck you are, and neither do the people running TPUSA right now. They just see you as potential shekels.
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>>1487311
I find it much more interesting how they're still trying to virtue signal about kirk getting team killed when they're still smearing Renee and Adam and mocking them being murdered by ICE goons.
Couldn't be more hypocritical than that.
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>>1487317
>kirk getting team killed
Here we go again pretending Kirk wasn't killed by a leftist.
>when they're still smearing Renee and Adam and mocking them being murdered by ICE goons.
Can you show me these thousands of Republicans hitting the griddy on TikTok over those two?
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Do US People even know how much of a bad reputation Trump causes worldwide for the USA? Or do everyone there still think he's making "America great again?" I'm just curious. This country will not recover from Trump the next decades for sure. GG
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>>1487333
Well technically, but more people voted against Trump than for him. Those votes were just split among other candidates. He also lost the last election before that by over 7 million votes. So his win was legit in 2024, but not nearly as big as he pretends.
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>>1487332
We don't. It's just Trump trolling on social media again, and these retards take the bait. Remember how much they sperged out a few days ago when Trump said that one of the reporters questioning him didn't smile enough? OH MY GOD HOW DARE HE TELL A WOMAN SHE DOESN'T SMILE MUH PATRIARCHY REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
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>>1487334
>bad reputation Trump causes worldwide for the USA?
Oh no, the US losing its previous reputation if being a doormat that gave free money to worldwide backstabbers? Meanwhile we still give you free money and you're upset because of some protectionist tariffs when I literally every other country has protectionist tariffs.
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>>1487282
>nice double standards one is a racist joke the other is a call for murder
1. It's double standard, ESL.
2. You are literally saying they should be treated differently. That is a double standard, you fucking dumbass.
3. Your mother's cock. You should choke on it.
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>>1487350
you're a retard, i'm saying if its fine for you then its fine for trump. that's not double standard you illiterate grade school dropout.
your mom's too busy straddling some indian cock.
Oh boy the ESL excuse you fucking uneducated midwit
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>>1487308
>What are you even trying to say here?
Dems do this really cool thing where they lie and/or over-exaggerate small things to give them a pretense to commit terrorism.
This is literally why they call MAGA fascists. They're designating them as targets for political violence, not because they actually subscribe to the ideology of Giovanni Gentile or Hitler.
If you decide to commit a terrorism because Trump called Obama a monkey or whatever, you are at fault, not Trump.
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>>1487386
>Dems do this really cool thing where they lie and/or over-exaggerate small things to give them a pretense to commit terrorism.
MAGA's entire political strategy is to accuse their opposition of everything they themselves are doing, like so.
>This is literally why they call MAGA fascists.
No, we call you fascists because you do fascists things and say fascist things.
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>>1487395
>No, we call you fascists because you do fascists things and say fascist things.
Define fascism for me.
Hard mode: do it in a way that doesn't fit the description of literally every single first world country.
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>>1487398
>a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition
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>>1487406
Yeah, it absolutely does.
Let's pick a democratic state at random and run them through your own definition. Ready?
Grok gave me Portugal.
>a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual
It's a nation that holds democracies and has a sense of patriotic national identity.
>that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader
High-level officials have been embroiled in numerous corruption scandals that have threatened democratic institutions, thereby allowing them to hold an effective monopoly on political power (which they definitely have due to Portugal being a representative democracy)
> and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition
Portugal has a developed mixed economy, blending private enterprise with government intervention. Far-right political movements are oppressed in favor of the status quo.
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>>1487432
So you use two one word rebuttals.
Projection and Whataboutism.
Can you please define your terms?
>It's amazing how much leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible.
How is this Projection
>Why do you pretend to not understand why letting transgender women into women's changing room threatens the safety of women?
How is this Whataboutism?
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>>1487268
I don’t care about your life because you don’t care about mine. You just wine like a little baby about it. The minute you arnt in power it will be begging to forgive and move on and for mercy. May extra judicial justice come for you and your family.
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>>1487471
funny cause you've actively wanted to assault and murder me for the past decade because i held a different opinion.
funny how when the shoe's on the other foot you're going no how dare you.
I genuinely hope you suffer.
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>>1487283
That's not the original video holy shit I hate this board all of you share your shit opinions without knowing anything. The video posted above is some AI slop that was probably created by someone on /pol/.
The actual video Trump posted was a minute long video about ballot fraud or something like that, and then for a second near the end they had the Obama monkeys. Whoever made the video is clearly racist but most likely Trump (or a staffer) just didn't see the end of the video.
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>>1487520
>Trump post shit on his social media account on his social media website and doesn't know what the fuck is in it
So you're saying he's senile/incompetent and any bullshit can get past him because he won't do the bare minimum of checking or reading or even watching what he's approving.
Why was autopen so bad again?
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>>1487532
If I was going to post publicly with my real name and real position, then I watch a video fully, multiple times, before I post it. This is 100x more true if I was the head of an organization or working as a media relations personnel of the organization. This isn't doomscrolling on tiktok in the comfort of your sofa at 10pm, I do not publish shit until I know what's in it inside and out, and this true of everything I submit for public view.
But hey what do I know? I never had to retract anything I submitted in the same day cause I offended boatloads of people including my own political party. I guess common sense is wrong according to you.
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>>1487535
>oh no i am so offended someone put my picture on a monkey
>lol why are you so mad we only called you nazis for 10 years and talked about how much we want to assault you
double standards much, incredible truly incredible.
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>>1487548
but isn't that you, ur the one being offended chimp boy
ur the only one whose offended, we have your anti ice protesters on record saying the N word repeatedly and now u cunts are making up nonsense about how ice wants to execute white people
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>>1487549
No it isn't me, it's Rick Scott
>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5726417-scott-rebukes-tru mp-obama-ape/
>“Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House,” Scott said about the video in a post on the social platform X.
>“The President should remove it,” the senator added.
>A couple hours later, the post was deleted.
So either
>post isn't racist or offensive and Trump backed down immediately like a coward because some GOP politician got his feelings hurt
>the post was racist and Trump is still a coward unable to stand up to his real beliefs
Which is it migger?
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>>1487535
>I guess common sense is wrong according to you.
Submitting yourself to the expectations of the woke mob is suicide because nothing will satisfy them.
If you're going to be racist, be racist. The shame associated with racism only has power over you if you let it. Trump's mistake was doing that instead of doubling down.
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>>1487188
Antiwhites are more offended by some stupid lion king meme than they are by the mass rape and murder of White women and children, or that Europe is a destination of child rape tourism for antiwhite scum of the earth, or all the antiwhite propaganda in the media, or that Whites are being White Erased from all of their own homelands. 4chan staff is antiwhite too.
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>>1487803
I heard George W Bush didn't arrest Epstein. Was he covering for pedos? Nor did Barack Obama, or Bill Clinton
Why are so many presidents covering for pedos?
I have heard that Jeffrey Epstein was born in 1953, just how many presidents covered for this guy?
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