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Trump’s video depicting Obamas as apes sparks outrage

Trump Faces Backlash Over Racist Video Post

US President Donald Trump has stirred controversy by sharing a social media video containing a racist clip of Barack and Michelle Obama. The footage portrayed them as apes and was featured at the end of a video discussing alleged voter fraud in the 2020 election.

This action prompted Republican Senator Tim Scott, who is black, to urge Trump's removal of the post, deeming it "the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House." Initially, the White House defended the video as an internet meme and dismissed criticism as "fake outrage." However, growing pressure from Republican senators led to the clip’s removal from Trump's Truth Social account. A White House representative claimed a staffer had "erroneously" posted it.

The clip also depicted other Democrats as animals, including Joe Biden as an ape. The Obamas have yet to comment, but the video’s distribution sparked fierce criticism, both publicly and within Trump’s party.

Senator Scott expressed his hope that the post was fake, reinforcing the racism he perceived. Meanwhile, Republican Mike Lawler condemned the post as "incredibly offensive" and called for its immediate removal.

Utah Senator John Curtis further criticized it as "blatantly racist." Reports indicated concerns about account access and post approval processes after Florida representative Byron Donalds contacted the White House, learning a staffer "let the president down."

The White House Press Secretary defended the post, urging a focus on more pressing issues. Nonetheless, Derrick Johnson from the NAACP called it "disgusting," suggesting a distraction from other controversies like the Epstein case.

Criticism extended beyond politicians. Ben Rhodes, a former Obama adviser, remarked on Trump's tarnished reputation compared to the Obamas’ legacy. Several lawmakers, including Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and California Governor Gavin Newsom, harshly criticized Trump's behavior.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries described Trump as "vile," demanding Republicans denounce Trump’s actions. The debunked election claims in the video, part of a minute-long post, further fueled discontent. Trump's history of unfounded attacks on Obama, including false birther claims, added context to the uproar.

The incident underscores persistent tensions surrounding Trump’s rhetoric and highlights ongoing debates over race, leadership, and accountability in the political arena.

Key Takeaways

  • Trump’s video sparked bipartisan outrage for racism.

  • The White House claimed a staffer made an error.

  • Calls for denouncement and accountability intensified.

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spidermike007 Star Member

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The failed goombah continues his behavior as a 13 year old street thug, attempting to coerce Congress and the Senate into renaming buildings, airports and institutions after him.

Either he's living in a parallel universe, or he knows that his legacy is going to be horrific enough, that maybe slapping his name up on a few buildings is going to make a difference in his own tiny mind.

Job losses? Who cares, they're just ordinary Americans, they don't count.

The Trump administration asked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., for the Washington region’s Dulles International Airport and New York’s Penn Station to be named after President Donald Trump in exchange for releasing the federal funds required to build a long-delayed tunnel between New York and New Jersey, multiple sources told NBC News.

The states of New York and New Jersey have sued to force the administration to release the funds, which had already been appropriated.

The Gateway project warned that it will be forced to halt construction soon if the money doesn’t start flowing. If that happens, thousands of construction workers would be laid off.

The White House declined to comment, and Schumer’s office did not respond to a request for comment. A source close to Schumer told NBC News that "there is nothing to trade."

"The president stopped the funding, and he can restart the funding with a snap of his fingers," the source said.

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beautifulthailand99 Ruby Member

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41 minutes ago, Sigmund said:

Funny, when the woke left wing, pro illegal, or environmental terrorists or who knows what, spread fake pics of Trump dressed in some nazi outfit, it rarely makes a global uproar.

That's because we radical left lunatics control the media not the jews.

Etaoin Shrdlu Platinum Member

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30 minutes ago, Sigmund said:

For sure, as a majority did vote for him. Things have never changed in the US even before Trump. IT has always been america-first and all those not american, were considered of lower standard. With Trump, the discourse just gets a bit more open as he does not give a hoot on what people think and how it is said.

This should also open the eyes of many nationals who are well educated and have been bootlicking America for ages. It's not for nothing that even before Trump, you see many highly qualified professionnals doctors, dentists, software, IT etc who are leaving America for good, going back to their homelands in Africa or India or Asia, are prospering and really doing very well. Some even have their wealthy american clients-patients who go back to them in their respective homelads, to get the treatment in some posh worldclass clinic in India.

Take the Clintons, Obama's orBush. They have always imposed their dominance on the rest of the world and supported what Israel has been doing for ages in Gaza. So nothing new with Trump here really. OF course, you cannot and never can say all of such or such people are good or bad. No matter where, you will find good and bad people. But in general the domination of America towards the rest of the world has been going on since the end of WW2. Sorry to all my very good american friends - no hard feelings please. 🙏

I just want to correct one thing: a majority did not vote for Trump in 2024. The majority of voters chose someone else. Trump received approximately 49.8% of votes cast. He and his MAGA minions do not have the decisive mandate they claim.

Mavideol Star Member

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1 hour ago, flaming dragon said:

I must confess to deriving a great deal of entertainment from this thread. Does that make me a troll? Perhaps I should start another account where I pretend to be a semi retarded janitor and spam the board with ridiculous questions. Oops, that's been done already and the members here took the bait: hook line and sinker.

I'd still like to see the files that directly link Trump to any of the Epstein shenanigans. All I've seen, heard, and read thus far is partisan pap.

juts a thought... why don't you ask the DOJ for any and all copies of the correspondence between her and Trump and while at it be nice and ask nicely for any and all unredacted files, after that all your shenanigans will be answered

beautifulthailand99 Ruby Member

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5 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

What does Israel have to do with this ?

This story is nothing to do with Israel or Jews .

Keep your Anti semetic posts to the relevant threads

They are not antisemitic and thanks for using a slur. We’re talking about comparative racism here. Your post appears to trivialise the outrage over Trump, though I may have misread it. If so, I apologise. If not, you don’t get to cherry-pick which forms of racism matter.My point being if my assertion is correct you are quick to shout - anti-semite - a call out to racism but have a blind spot when it happens to a black President of the US and his first lady. Black Lives Matter.

Nick Carter icp Star Member

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2 minutes ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

They are not antisemitic and thanks for using a slur. We’re talking about comparative racism here. Your post appears to trivialise the outrage over Trump, though I may have misread it. If so, I apologise. If not, you don’t get to cherry-pick which forms of racism matter.

Your claim that Jews control the media was indeed Anti Semitic .

Why even mention Israel or Jews ?

You were just looking for an opportunity to bash Jews

Stick to the subject, Trump posting a video featuring various people as animals , himself included .

Nothing to do with jews

beautifulthailand99 Ruby Member

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1 minute ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Your claim that Jews control the media was indeed Anti Semitic .

Why even mention Israel or Jews ?

You were just looking for an opportunity to bash Jews

Stick to the subject, Trump posting a video featuring various people as animals , himself included .

Nothing to do with jews

So was it racist or not racist - binary choice ?

Nick Carter icp Star Member

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3 minutes ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

So what it racist or not racist - binary choice.

Was it racist to depict Trump as an animal , as a lion ?

Nick Carter icp Star Member

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6 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

You mean "subliminal", right? Because in no part of the universe does "Trump" and "sublime" belong in the same sentence.

i was referring to the video, rather than referring to Trump

riclag Star Member

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2 hours ago, Harry Vibhavadi said:

Sorry, but.. how is it possible, the US inhabitants accept such a thing of their president ? Says a lot of these US citizens..

He gets the domestic leftist , international leftist panties all in a bunch ,he's proven it time & time again. The only President in history to fight fight fight against the far left who wants to destroy him.

God love him & country

Chomper Higgot Star Member

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6 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Was it racist to depict Trump as an animal , as a lion ?

Let’s depict various ethnic minorities as animals, perhaps rats or other vermin, then see precisely at which point you get to understand how that might be a problem.

candide Star Member

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4 hours ago, candide said:

Naaah! It's pure coincidence that the Obamas have been represented as Gorillas! It could have been Zebras or Giraffes...

I'm joking, of course. MAGAs would never post such a lame argument!

Oh wait, they just did, in the other closed thread about it! 🤣

Bingo! 😂

beautifulthailand99 Ruby Member

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4 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Let’s depict various ethnic minorities as animals, perhaps rats or other vermin, then see precisely at which point you get to understand how that might be a problem.

oh yes I forget who was lyched for that remind me ? Oh yes Gary Lineker !

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Nick Carter icp Star Member

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7 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Let’s depict various ethnic minorities as animals, perhaps rats or other vermin, then see precisely at which point you get to understand how that might be a problem.

Well go ahead and do that and start a thread about it

Nick Carter icp Star Member

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10 minutes ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

As a Jew you are hyper sensitive to anti-semitsim and rightly so. You can see the canards where others don't - like the famous mural that Corbyn was lynched over. That said how do black peoplke react to being likened to monkey ? Walk a mile in a black person's shoes and you will know the answer.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-23/u-k-labour-leader-says-he-was-wrong-to-back-anti-semitic-mural

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Could you remove that claim, or I will have to report it ?

Up to you .

Do it yourself or I will report the rule breaking

beautifulthailand99 Ruby Member

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4 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Could you remove that claim, or I will have to report it ?

Up to you .

Do it yourself or I will report the rule breaking

What claim I am genuinley confused as to what rule you think I have broken ? If you are not Jewish then apologies I thought in all honesty in good faith that you are.

stevenl Star Member

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34 minutes ago, riclag said:

God love him & country

He hasn't obeyed any of the 10 commandments and is a terrible human being. Why would God love him?

Chomper Higgot Star Member

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25 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Well go ahead and do that and start a thread about it

Let’s see if we can figure out what your response might be:

24 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Could you remove that claim, or I will have to report it ?

Up to you .

Do it yourself or I will report the rule breaking

beautifulthailand99 Ruby Member

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I come our with my hands up - don't shoot. But I will go down with my ship ....

Nick Carter icp Star Member

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Trump just said that it wasn't him who posted the video, it was member of his staff and he removed the video as soon as he saw it

Nick Carter icp Star Member

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15 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Let’s see if we can figure out what your response might be:

You wanted to post photos of Jews depicted as rats , go ahead then .

Better to start a new thread though

mikeymike100 Platinum Member

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Oh dear....

2 hours ago, BLMFem said:

A poster who's gone all in on letting AI write their posts. Well done!😂

Facts are facts and you have no rebuttal, very sad!whistling, but not surprising!blink

flaming dragon Gold Member

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1 hour ago, Mavideol said:

juts a thought... why don't you ask the DOJ for any and all copies of the correspondence between her and Trump and while at it be nice and ask nicely for any and all unredacted files, after that all your shenanigans will be answered

I believe that Trump is a red herring. The <removed> people are in a frenzy now, especially on Reddit. Still no incriminating evidence, not even a trace of it.

I'd expect Biden to be in the files, but Epstein's stable were a little too old for the Child Sniffer in Chief. I'm still waiting for my 'winter of death' that was promised back in 2021/2022. These files are just a continuation of the George Floyd (remember him?)/Covid/ Ukraine/ Gaza extravaganza that has kept Americans divided and at each others' throats for the last few years.

I suspect any proof about Trump will take much longer and will probably be fabricated after his death.

Yellowtail Star Member

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Obamas as apes? End of democracy.

Trump as Hitler, a pedo, in diapers, getting corn-holed by Putin etc.? That's all great.

The left sh*ts on everything and then howls about the smell.

Hypocrisy, thy name is lefty.

Harry Vibhavadi Apprentice Member

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Sorry, but.. how is it possible, the US inhabitants accept such a thing of their president ? Says a lot of these US citizens..

3 hours ago, marin said:

Take your thoughts to them not the Americans who want him gone, hopefully he will be shackled after the November midterms.

Why to wait till November, with the risk Trump calls for an emergency situation or let ICE block all not white supremacy voters ?

In a decent democracy, this act would be an impeachment today. And the response from the Senate and House ? Just some small waves..

flaming dragon Gold Member

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16 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Trump just said that it wasn't him who posted the video, it was member of his staff and he removed the video as soon as he saw it

I read his full quote where he watched the first few seconds and forwarded the video for a staffer to post. Apparently the monkey shines didn't happen until the end of the video. Considering the sheer volume of tripe that spews out of the Whitehouse these days, the explanation passes the sniff test. Someone got one over on the Orange Genius.

mikeymike100 Platinum Member

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6 hours ago, candide said:

Trump is obsessed by Obama! 😄

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It's patently obvious that Trump lives in many of the posters heads here, rent free as that is all they 'talk ' about!

Nick Carter icp Star Member

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6 hours ago, candide said:

Trump is obsessed by Obama! 😄

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Doesn't really make sense , because there were 15 other people in the video as well .

It wasn't just Obama

Tug Star Member

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8 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I just laugh at you for selecting scumbags for your presidential candidates, then constantly whining when they lose.

Surely you've got better people than Hillary/Joe/Kamala?

Well let’s just take a little peek at your statement hummm……Hillary Clinton civil rights lawyer….first lady 8 years senator yada yada yada…ok there’s that hummm…..then Harris lawyer prosecutor attorney general for the state with the 4 th largest economy on the planet senator and vice president…oh did I mention she came from a single parent home ….hummm?then Joe Biden senator vice president many successful pieces of legislation passed within the framework of laws and constitution……humm….So yup not perfect but far and away better than the mess we have now.now on subject I’m not the least surprised this is exactly who trump is he’s a racist through and through no doubt about it.remember how he fanned the flames of division after the George Floyd murder?hek his effin dad was arrested for cluxing back in the day.donald trump is no president he’s a very spoiled nasty little soul born into money with a lazy mind not to smart with a cruel heart……god help us all.

JAG Ruby Member

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1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Let’s depict various ethnic minorities as animals, perhaps rats or other vermin, then see precisely at which point you get to understand how that might be a problem.

It will only become a problem when/if the consequences become known.

When that happens the various time honoured excuses will be: it was done in our name but without our knowledge, we knew nothing about it, oh we wondered where those trains were going (the Celle excuse), we were only following orders (the Nuremberg excuse); and if we really want to get bang up to date (unfortunate choice of words but there you are) don't interfere and you won't get hurt!

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