"Former President Barack Obama broke his silence on President Donald Trump posting a video depicting both him and his wife Michelle Obama as apes, arguing there is a lack of shame among the president's supporters. Obama joined Brian Tyler Cohen for the Saturday episode of his podcast where the former president dove into a variety of issues, but he first addressed Trump's controversial video post to social media, which he's since blamed on an unidentified staffer."
"That was a video on, as you know, voter fraud, and a fairly long video, and they had a little piece that had to do with The Lion King.' It's been very wellit'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, very strong piece on voter fraud. And the piece that you're talking about was all over the place many times, I believe for years, he told reporters this week."
Barack Obama criticized a social media post by Donald Trump that depicted him and Michelle Obama as apes, calling supporters' responses a sign of a lack of shame. The image, posted to Truth Social, was widely condemned as racist, and Trump later blamed an unidentified staffer while defending the post as part of a longer voter-fraud video that included a Lion King clip. Obama told Brian Tyler Cohen that a majority of Americans find the behavior deeply troubling, described the episode as a distraction and a clown show, and linked it to a broader devolution of political discourse including harsh rhetoric around ICE raids and shootings.
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