"Fury erupted early on Friday after Donald Trump posted a racist video that depicts Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. The clip appeared during one of the 79-year-old US president's increasingly frequent late-night posting sprees to his Truth Social account, and shows the laughing faces of the former president and first lady superimposed on the bodies of primates in a jungle setting, bobbing to the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight."
"The press office of the Democratic California governor, Gavin Newsom, was among the first to condemn the post on X. Disgusting behavior by the President. Every single Republican must denounce this. Now, it said. Podcaster Ben Rhodes, the former deputy national security adviser during the Obama administration, also accused Trump of racism. Let 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, he wrote."
Donald Trump posted a racist video on Truth Social depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, set to "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." The clip appeared during a late-night posting spree and shows the Obamas' laughing faces superimposed on primates bobbing in a jungle. The image appears briefly at the end of a minute-long third-party video that amplifies Trump's false claim that he won the 2020 election. The clip was a repost from Patriot News Outlet. By 8:30am the post had about 4,000 likes and drew bipartisan outrage, including condemnation from Gavin Newsom's press office, Ben Rhodes, and Republicans Against Trump.
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