Trump posts racist video of the Obamas

Typical Trump response - he's now blamed someone else for the post. Infantile behaviour as usual. It would be laughable if he didn't have so much power over so many people.

There’s a fine line between political satire and offensiveness.

The point of the video is to show Trump as the King and his opponents as lesser, subservient animals. Depicting Biden as an ape suggest the creator considers Trump superior in intellect.

Hakeem Jeffries, black Democrat Minority Leader of the House of Reprensentatives is depicted as a meerkat. What does that signify?

The video was posted three months ago and has been viewed 201K times on FB and presumably shared. Has it been a source of controversy in the USA for that long or only now because Trump has posted a clip?

Of couse, depicting black people as apes is racist but we know that Trump is a racist. It’s no surprise. We know too that he will do anything for publicity.

I was only thinking it’s been a quiet few days from him as controversy rages here over Mandelson. For weeks, Trump has dominated our news cycle - over Venezuela, Greenland, Iran, ICE.

This was probably done to seek attention. Yes, it’s grossly offensive but it makes no odds to him who he offends. I once heard a self-aware alpha narcissist saying that it would make no difference to him if someone said they loved him, baked him cake or set fire to a turd on his doorstep. What is important is that he knows he has that person’s attention.

And now Trump has our attention again. He’s stepped back over Greenland, Iran, ICE and he needs to be in the news again.

Best thing everyone could do is to ignore his antics. Yawn and say, That old thing, it’s been circulating for months … but of course that’s not how the media works. It and we play right into his hands and twisted mind every time.

If a black political is calling the offensive cartoon out as being racist, then I accept his definition.

Yes I read that too on the BBC website Fallingstar which reported:

'Republican Senator Tim Scott - who is black - called for the president to remove the post, describing it as "the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House”. Criticism also came from within Trump's own party. Senator Scott, a black South Carolina Republican and an ally of Trump, posted that 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," he added. Another Republican, New York representative Mike Lawler, called the post "wrong and incredibly offensive - whether intentional or a mistake" and said it "should be deleted immediately with an apology offered."

Good that at least some Republicans call out racism when they see it.

theworriedwell

BBC reporting he's taken it down.

But not before countless people have seen it.

BBC reporting he's taken it down.

Trump is an internet troll, a horrible spiteful human being who enjoys being as nasty as possible to those he dislikes.
Never thought I would see a US President stoop as low as he has done.

There will always be a few, usually not Black people evidently , that don't understand the depiction of Black people as monkeys is racist- a sad reflection that there is still a way to go...particularly for the US President.

I can agree it’s offensive, but suspect anyone concerned will be able to laugh or shrug it off.It’s typical of Trump that he would enjoy it of course, that’s how childish he is.

The depiction of a white person as an ape is usually considered to be a harsh insult or a generalised dehumanising attack. It does not carry the same specific historical baggage of systemic racism as it does when directed at black people.

What was the creators intention in using animal imagery for multiple Democrats- cant think of a positive or respectful reason myself. What was Trump's intention when he posted the video- can't think of a positive or respectful reason myself. Seems like the usual Trump provocative, denigrating stuff and in the case also racist.

But even regardless of intent, the act of using animalistic imagery to dehumanise a person is seen to be offensive. Whilst Trump may enjoy promoting his own image as "King of the jungle" clearly to depict multiple democrats in this animalistic way is offensive, and specifically the Obamas as monkeys is racist.

I can't believe anyone defending the president of the USA for posting a racist meme, because that is what it is. As others have said, the connection between black people being monkeys has been long paraded and no-one wouldn't get that link. Is this another attempt to distract from Epstein? What are the Republican party afraid of?

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.

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.

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.

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

But Biden is white.

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

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.

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.

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

For anyone wants a link

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.

How much lower can this dreadful man sink?

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.

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

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.