"Trump posted a video to his Truth Social account at 11:44 PM on Thursday night that contains an image depicting President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes: This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King. Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public."
"JAKE TAPPER: President Trump facing bipartisan outrage over racist imagery he posted of the Obamas as apes. A video one might normally hope is confined to just the accounts of trolls in the darkest corners of the Internet. Yet it was shared on Truth Social by the president of these United States to his millions of followers. We don't want to dignify the racist meme itself by giving the video more time than it deserves."
President Donald Trump posted a Truth Social video at 11:44 PM that included an image depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, drawn from an internet meme casting Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as Lion King characters. The post remained online for roughly 12 hours before deletion. An unnamed White House official attributed the post to an erroneous staffer action. Neither the president nor the White House issued an apology. CNN anchor Jake Tapper mocked the staffer explanation on air, calling attention to bipartisan outrage and questioning whether the purported staffer actually exists.
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