{"id":89,"date":"2026-02-07T20:30:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wizbiz.press\/?p=89"},"modified":"2026-02-07T20:30:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:30:59","slug":"donald-trumps-officials-defend-him-after-he-posted-racist-video-of-barack-and-michelle-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wizbiz.press\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s officials defend him after he posted \u2018racist\u2019 video of Barack and Michelle Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Trump\u2019s press secretary Karoline Leavitt issued a statement in response to backlash against the US president<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p class=\" IL_IC_MIN\"><strong>Warning:<\/strong> This article contains discussion of racial discrimination which some readers may find distressing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The White House has issued a statement in defence of the president Donald Trump, after he shared a \u2018racist\u2019 video depicting former president Barack Obama and wife Michelle as monkeys.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The minute-long clip in question was shared by the Republican leader on Truth Social on 6 February, repeating a number of age-old false allegations, including that Democrats used Dominion Voting Systems to swing the 2020 presidential election in favour of Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of the video, a seemingly AI-generated image suddenly emerges, showing the Obamas\u2019 faces superimposed onto the bodies of monkeys. In the background, the track \u2018The Lion Sleeps Tonight\u2019 plays.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the clip was quick to garner mass criticism from across the globe, slamming Trump, 79, as both \u2018disgusting\u2019 and \u2018racist\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump posted a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys,\u201d one X user hit out. \u201cIncredibly racist and disgusting. Beneath the office of the presidency, like everything he does. Every American must condemn this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a disgraceful administration,\u201d another wrote, whilst a third added: \u201cThis is so racist wtf is wrong with him.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the backlash, Karoline Leavitt \u2013 Trump\u2019s press secretary \u2013 has attempting to justify the politician\u2019s post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from The Lion King,\u201d she told Tyla.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t just social media users who have took aim at Trump\u2019s latest online upload, however, but several politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst them was Gavin Newsom \u2013 California\u2019s governor and one of Trump\u2019s most outspoken political opponents \u2013 to wrote: \u201cDisgusting behaviour by the President. Every single Republican must denounce this. Now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Deputy National Security adviser Ben Rhodes also hit out: \u201cLet 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.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s press secretary Karoline Leavitt issued a statement in response to backlash against the US president Warning: This article contains discussion of racial discrimination which some readers&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Donald Trump\u2019s officials defend him after he posted \u2018racist\u2019 video of Barack and Michelle Obama - 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