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Former President Barack Hussein Obama went to Columbia and got a JD from Harvard, and his wife, to whom he is still happily married, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, went to Princeton and also got a JD from Harvard. They did not inherit millions and are self-made people, they never met Jeffrey Epstein, and zero of their kids were found liable for bilking a children’s cancer charity. Barack Obama ended his term with a 59 percent approval rating, making him the fifth-most beloved president of all time, and Trump’s first term ended with a 39 percent approval rating, and is currently at 41 percent. Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize, a couple of Grammys, deported more people, and the economy improved under him too! Obama even maintained his 34” waistline while doing all that. Meanwhile, Trump has a BS in Economics, inherited millions from daddy yet still bankrupted six companies, and most of the country disapproves of him or worse. It’s clearly given a certain rich old white man an inferiority complex.
Maybe a racist AI-slop animation depicting the Obamas as apes, one of the nastiest dehumanizing tropes ever , might take America’s love for those glamorous Obamas down a peg! And that is what Trump posted, though maybe he didn’t mean to or maybe he didn’t post it himself and it was some un-named “staffer,” as defenders and Trump are now claiming. Not a glowing endorsement of his presidential mental facilities or the workings of his office! But indeed a clip of the offending video appears to have been pasted into the end of a different video, and you can watch yourself on the archived page . Maybe Trump dozed off before he got to that part?
Trump insisted to the press Friday night on the plane to his golf club that he simultaneously knew everything that was being posted, unlike that Joe Biden, and “I didn't make a mistake,” yet also, “I just looked at the first part ... I didn’t see the whole thing, somebody slipped and missed a very small part. I guess probably nobody reviewed the end of it.”
It’s like a conversation with late-stage Rick James!
The full offending clip, for reference:
Nota: The link is operative in the original article . Not here.
Note he said the most , not the only ! There was Trump pounding to execute the Central Park Five , Birtherism , claiming Kamala Harris wasn’t really Black, DHS posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda, last month the White House altering a photo of Nekima Levy Armstrong, Black civil rights attorney, Minnesota protester and private citizen, to make her look disheveled and crazy, then laughing it off as “meme,” har-de-har- ing that “the memes will continue” … etc. etc., insert 300 more examples off the top of your head here.
Just as surprising as Trump (or that somebody/nobody staffer) eventually taking the post down, too, were all the Republicans who also somehow missed Trump’s racism until Friday, but expressed actual disgust for once!
Susan Collins, the woman who never had more than “concern” after two people were executed by ICE on the street in Minnesota, said, “Tim was right. This is appalling.” Rep. Mike Lawler of New York said the video “should be deleted immediately with an apology offered.” And Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio said it was “offensive, heart breaking, and unacceptable,” and that Trump “should apologize,” as did Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi and Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Don Bacon of Nebraska: “What the President posted was highly inappropriate. He owes the Obama family and the American people an apology. Most Americans demand better, including basic decency from our President.”
Too bad most Americans didn’t actually vote for that in ‘24. Though some Trump voters do seem to be starting to realize, Trump is just not a decent person. Like this C-SPAN caller:
Nota: The link is operative in the original article . Not here.
Nota: The link is operative in the original article . Not here.
From the White House, until Trump’s dithering non-denial, the excuses were predictably pathetic, all along the lines of you thought you saw that? No you didn’t! But if you did, it’s no big deal, and also he didn’t do it!
Spokesbot Karoline Leavitt first claimed, “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King.” Though, of course, there are no gorillas, chimps or donkeys, in The Lion King. Or donkeys in a jungle, for that matter.
Trump defenders Ben Shapiro and Benny Johnson suggested that Trump simply didn’t know he posted that.
Ben Shapiro : “I’m almost certain that the president never watches the entirety of any video. I don’t think he has the attention span to get through any of the videos that he has tweeted.”
But Joe Biden was old!
Benny Johnson : “Did President Trump post this meme? No. He posted a swipe up autoplay function.”
What mental fitness our President has! And derp, dudes, Karoline Leavitt already said it was posted on purpose. Until about eight hours later when Trump told reporters it wasn’t, and yet also was.
And in between Leavitt, and Trump also, according to pastor Mark Burns , blamed the post on that “staffer.” According to Trump himself, though, the only other “staffer” who has access to Trump’s TruthSocial account is Dan Scavino, the bloated sack of fetid cottage cheese with the fashy hairdo who rose in the ranks at the Trump Org from managing Trump’s Westchester Golf Club.
So guess it was either Trump, Scavino, some new guy, or the ghost of Ronald Reagan .
But, if it was really an accident by some Dan Scavino or whoever , why did it take an entire 12 hours to delete? What is a “staffer” doing wanking to such an odious clip in the first place?
Remember when the mayor of Clay, West Virginia, resigned after calling Michelle Obama an “ape in heels”? Most people who posted such things would probably get fired from a job at the car wash for posting such things! But now the highest office in the land has the lowest standards, apparently.
Guess appealing to the dumbest racists of the flock is all MAGA has left. They’ve captured all three branches of government and are now the establishment. Never delivered on exposing that “pedo cabal.” They have “won” the “culture wars,” and Trump-humping CEOs like Bezos, Elon, the Ellison boys, and the Smiths of Sinclair now control most of mass media. But even with all that , most people do not approve of how Trump is handling immigration or any other thing, the economy is in the shitter, and prospects are looking grim for Republicans for the midterms. Sheeeeit, they just saw a 32-point leftward swing in Fort Worth.
Perhaps a desperate Trump and Scavino hoped to remind Republican voters why they fell in love with the party in the first place: old-fashioned racism, just like Klanma used to make.
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Obama has class.
Trump is crass.
Did the staffer that made and posted the video get fired or is he still president?
Being that what Trump posted was not a still photo, but a video with another video superimposed in the corner of what Trump posted, why don't you show the entire video for context. You will see that there are quite a few other democrats depicted as various animals. I don't agree with the video, but what far leftists are trying to depict is nothing more than trash political hitjob, and most Americans see right through it.
Yet another nothingburger from the far left to gin up hate that I did not think was even possible....but here we are.
can you address reality and not some fantasy?
Believe what you want. The video you leftists are crying about was a spoof from Lion King. Nothing to do with racism, only which leftists seem to see in everything. I can post that video but then the cries of racism will dominate this site for weeks.......wait...it already does....for no reason other than but Truuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuump!!
Is it your claim that depicting African Americans as monkeys or apes is not racist ?
If you actually saw the video Trump reposted you would know that the image of the Obamas appears right before the end of the video, but is followed by another snippet of the election fraud nonsense, In other words, whoever created it did not do so by accident.
The rest of us are not as dumb as many Magas are.
It depends on the context. If the video ONLY depicted the Obamas in it, then yes, it would be construed as racist. It was not presented in that way.
To be fair, whoever posted it the way it showed up is a dumbass and should be shunned.
Move those goal posts LOL
Nope. It doesn't get a pass simply because other politicians were represented as animals. It's just another example of the VERY long history of OBVIOUSLY racist characterizations of black people as apes or monkeys.
Fucking racist Washington Post.
The people who love this shit and are defending the most recent iteration of it are fucking RACISTS.
What goalposts?
Do you even know what that means?
So I was correct in my response
I plainly stated that if it were ONLY the Obamas as a depiction of an animal, I would say it would be racist, but the video has about 15 or so democrats depicted as some sort of animal.
I hate to break it to leftists, but there is not racism around every corner and under every bed.
The reactionary extremists will defend anything Trump does no matter how vile and disgusting it is. It's pathetic.
How the hell are you qualified to know what racism is. . . if you have not experienced it? How? And, if you have experienced racism then why say it does not exist now?!
Not in the slightest. You keep ignoring the elephant in the room. The little racist conservative meme isn't racist because people are depicted as animals, it's racist because black Americans are depicted as monkeys of which there is a long racist history. The fact that you keep feigning ignorance on this speaks volumes.
How does one not see that and defend this?
He does see it, of course.
He then dissembles. That's MAGA!
MAGA supporters are opportunists. This kind of stuff. . . is the reason MAGA conservatives (like Trump) mocked and utterly condemned so-called, "PC-culture." They desperately need the FREEDOM to mock Others without loss of professional or social status or any other consequences. MOCKING, 'MENACING,"MILITANT," and "PUGNACIOUS" are good descriptors for MAGA supporters.
Indirectly I have. My wife, who is Asian, was verbally and racially assaulted by....wait for it....a black woman.
Show me where I said racism does not exist now?
You implied it with the statement above. If you do not mean to imply a thing, do take the time to be clear(er) so little can be misunderstood.
And yes, Asians can some times be racially remarked about by Blacks (I have seen it myself). . . even though it is not the normal behavior for most blacks. Those blacks that 'do it' - do it alot unfortunately).
That said, all RACISTS are sick people who use SKIN as a weapon against civility and human rights.