Trump Posts Video Portraying the Obamas as Apes

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/us/politics/trump-obamas-video-apes-truth-social.html

Trump Posts Video Portraying the Obamas as Apes
The video, shared by the president’s Truth Social account, contains a brief clip of the faces of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, on the bodies of apes.
By Isabella Kwai
Feb. 6, 2026 Updated 8:49 a.m. ET

President Trump late Thursday night shared a video that contained a brief clip portraying former President Barack Obama and the former first lady Michelle Obama as apes.

The clip, set to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” was spliced near the end of a 62-second video that promoted conspiracy theories about anomalies in the 2020 presidential election.

The clip appeared to have been taken from a video that was shared in October by a user on X whose watermark is shown, with the caption “President Trump: King of the Jungle,” and an emoji of a lion.

In that video, several high-profile Democrats — including former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York, former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and former vice president Kamala Harris — were shown as zebras, giraffes and other animals, while Mr. Trump was depicted as a lion. The Obamas, in the clip, were shown as apes. The video ended with the animals bowing down to Mr. Trump.

In response to questions about the clip, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, called it “fake outrage.”

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/06/trump-barack-michelle-obama-ape-video/88544109007/
Trump posts video meme showing Barack, Michelle Obama as apes
Melina Khan | USA TODAY
Feb. 6, 2026, 8:44 a.m. ET


https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-posts-video-depicting-barack-115427661.html
Trump Posts Video Depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as Apes
David Gilmour
Fri, February 6, 2026 at 5:54 AM CST


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-barack-michelle-obama-apes-truth-social-b2915152.html
Trump shares video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes in late-night Truth Social posting spree
The “disgusting” clip appeared as part of an unrelated video alleging long-debunked claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election; the White House is brushing off claims of racism as “fake outrage”
Craig Hoyle
Friday 06 February 2026 13:19 GMT

etc. etc.

And Republicans are okay with it

[ABC123Easy]

1. This is another distraction

3, 2, 1, watch the media fall for it

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. So, the media should ignore it?

[ABC123Easy]

4. Yes

Which would you prefer they cover? Epstein files or this? They won't cover both to the extent necessary. They'll move to the next shiny object which is this when they should be covering the Epstein files. See reply 2

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. Well, we will disagree. The more people see the National Disgrace that he is, the better.

[ABC123Easy]

6. That's not a problem

Realize that his greatest fear is to be ignored. If the media ignores the side bullshit and focuses on the 1 topic that enrages both sides, this all ends much quicker.

[Xavier Breath]

9. The people had a front row seat to his disgrace for eight years and it didn't make a fucking bit of difference in 2024.

But sure, any minute now.

[HipChick]

2. There is no bottom, the only monkey in the room

is the Orange one...

Deflection from Epstein files

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. MaddowBlog-White House tries to defend Trump amplifying a racist video targeting the Obamas

After Karoline Leavitt tried to defend the latest example of the president’s routine racism, the White House stepped on her dreadful argument.

Trump amplifying another racist video got me thinking about the commitment he made to Black voters in his second inaugural — and how quickly he returned to the kind of gutter racism that helped fuel his political rise in the first place. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-02-06T16:01:29.577Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-house-tries-to-defend-trump-amplifying-a-racist-video-targeting-the-obamas

In the fall, for example, the Republican used the term “DEI” as a slur for minorities in blaming their involvement with the construction of Barack Obama’s presidential library. Soon after, the president, as part of an ugly anti-immigrant pitch, publicly referred to Somali Americans as “garbage” and revived his “s—hole countries” rhetoric.

The list, alas, continues to grow longer. The Associated Press reported:

President Donald Trump used his social media account to share a video about election conspiracy theories that includes a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle. […]

Nearly all of the 62-second clip, which was among dozens of Truth Social posts from Trump overnight, appears to be from a conservative video alleging deliberate tampering with voting machines in battleground states as the 2020 presidential votes were tallied. At the 60-second mark is a quick scene of two primates, with the Obamas’ smiling faces imposed on them.

The fact that the Republican president didn’t make the video himself is hardly exculpatory: Trump saw the video and thought it’d be a good to idea to amplify it, just as he did in his first term when he promoted a video of a supporter wearing Trump campaign gear while shouting “white power!”...

Republican Sen. Tim Scott, who is Black, wrote online that he was praying the video “was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House.” The South Carolinian, who’s currently chairing the National Republican Senatorial Committee, added: “The President should remove it.”....

Complicating matters, a few hours after Leavitt tried to defend the racist video, the White House changed its story, saying in a statement, “A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down.”

Evidently, the press secretary’s “fake outrage” line proved unsustainable.

In his second inaugural address, Trump said: “To the Black and Hispanic communities, I want to thank you for the tremendous outpouring of love and trust that you have shown me with your vote. We set records, and I will not forget it. I’ve heard your voices in the campaign, and I look forward to working with you in the years to come.”

Like too many of Trump’s promises, he wasted little time in trashing this commitment and returning to the kind of gutter racism that helped fuel his political rise in the first place.

[Solly Mack]

8. The racist liar was depicted as a Lying (lion).

[lame54]

10. Someone needs to remake that video...

Where Barack and Michelle's faces are put the Epstein files

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. Trump defends racist Obama video as 'very strong' documentation of key campaign claim

trump is truly mentally ill. This video was a pure racist attack on the Obamas and had nothing to do with voter fraudl

Donald Trump has excused the sharing of a racist video featuring Barack and Michelle Obama to his Truth Social account as it actually details voter fraud.

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-02-13T15:05:59.657Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-obama-2675265609/

Donald Trump has excused the sharing of a racist video featuring Barack and Michelle Obama to his Truth Social account as it actually details voter fraud.

The president has erroneously claimed for years that the 2020 elections were rigged. His second term in the White House has led to some pressure on mail-in ballots and the repetition of claims that the Democratic Party did not win the 2020 election. Trump's post to Truth Social last week was criticized by politicians, though the president has tried to explain why the video had been shared, The Daily Beast reported.

He told reporters on Thursday, "That was a video on, as you know, on voter fraud. It was a fairly long video, and they had a little piece and it had to do with the Lion King. It’s doing very well, uh, it’s been shown all over the place, long before that was posted.

"But that was a very strong - and I’m sure you saw it - a very strong piece on voter fraud, and the piece we were talking about was all over the place, many times I believe, for years."

The video was shared to Trump's Truth Social account at around midnight on February 6, with the current president sharing a host of posts, including this video. Said video runs for one minute and two seconds, with the final seconds of the video depicting Barack and Michelle as animals.

Trump had previously targeted Obama with an artificially generated video of the former president being arrested in the Oval Office. The deepfake video appeared in July last year on the president's Truth Social account.

[Blue_Roses]

12. This "administration" continues

to be the most ignorant, racist joke our country has ever seen and had to endure.
It's getting so old and exhausting.