"Scott, who leads the Senate Republican campaign arm, posted Friday 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." Driving the news: Trump's Thursday post, made at 11:44pm ET, depicts former President Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes in an AI meme video portraying Trump as King of the Jungle."
""This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from [T]he Lion King," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. Black people being depicted as apes or monkeys is a centuries-old trope used for dehumanization and humiliation. Zoom out: Trump spent years falsely pushing the 'birther' conspiracy theory that Barack Obama wasn't born in the U.S."
Donald Trump posted an AI-generated meme late Thursday portraying former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes while portraying Trump as the King of the Jungle. Senate Republican campaign chair Tim Scott posted that he was "praying it was fake" and called the image the most racist thing he'd seen from the White House, urging removal. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt described the content as an internet meme depicting Trump as king and Democrats as Lion King characters. Depicting Black people as apes is a centuries-old dehumanizing trope. Trump previously promoted the "birther" conspiracy and has faced criticism for racist comments about the Obamas, Vice President Kamala Harris, and immigrants from Africa and Haiti.
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