"BILL MAHER: So yeah, and it's also Black History Month. To get things. To get things kicked off, the Trump administration today called for a moment of indifference. No, they did something much worse. Trump did a Roseanne. Did you see this? And shared a video of Black people superimposed as apes. And the people were the Obamas. I'm not going to show it, because I don't want to give it any oxygen. But the defense,"
"I thought, from the administration was rather lame. They said he did not mean to hit share. He meant to hit like. Karoline Leavitt, you know, she's very loyal, press spokesman, very loyal. She said he was, the president was just reposting a meme of him as the king of the jungle with Democrats as characters from The Lion King, as world leaders do."
Bill Maher used part of his Real Time monologue to criticize a now-deleted social media post that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. The show featured guest John Mellencamp and panelists Chris Christie and Chrystia Freeland. Maher rejected the administration's explanation that the president accidentally 'shared' rather than intentionally endorsed the post, and he mocked the claim that cartoon format makes racist imagery acceptable. Maher highlighted factual problems with the defense, noting there are no apes in The Lion King, and offered a provocative hypothetical comparing the cartoon defense to violent imagery aimed at a political opponent.
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