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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKaroline Leavitt Gives Jaw-Dropping Defense of Trump's Racist Obama Video
In a frenzied posting spree overnight, Trump shared a clip about conspiracy theories regarding so-called rigged elections. The video ends showing the Obamas with their heads superimposed onto the bodies of animated apes.
The video was widely condemned, with California Governor and Trump foe Gavin Newsom describing it as disgusting. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, however, called the outrage around it fake".
In a statement to Newsweek and other outlets, Leavitt said: 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, Leavitt added.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/karoline-leavitt-gives-jaw-dropping-defense-of-donald-trumps-racist-obama-video/
dalton99a
(93,111 posts)surfered
(12,549 posts)agingdem
(8,805 posts)Republicans voted for a a malicious sadistic hate-fueled racist degenerate because there was no way in hell they were going to "allow" another person of color to occupy the Oval Office again...no surprise there...
Lonestarblue
(13,363 posts)Beginning with Reagan and made worse by Trump. There's a reason Reagan announced his candidacy for president in Neshoba County, Mississippi. It was near the site where the KKK murdered civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner in 1964. Reagan chose a rural location and one where citizens supported the Klan and a one of the most racist states in the country. Reagan's speech focused on states' rights, a phrase used by white supremacists to justify racial segregation.
There's a direct progression from Nixon's Southern Strategy to incarcerate as many black voters as possible to prevent their votes to Trump's vicious racist policies of today. Trump's Republican Party is totally white supremacist and groups like ICE are today's version of the KKK.
I expect nothing to change because Republicans love to hate non-white people and are delusional enough to believe that they can make the US an all-white nation.
Chasstev365
(7,459 posts)LeftinOH
(5,634 posts)who does not engage in crass and juvenile internet trolling. That matters.
this guy has a freakin button.
how about "grow up."
newdeal2
(5,122 posts)He is probably on so many drugs that he cant sleep so he goes into these manic episodes. Its quite scary in a way.
rampartd
(4,395 posts)this has only just begun
if kelly can be recalled to duty for court martial so can i. musk has everything he needs to steal every mortgage and clean all our bank accounts. overnight.
i can't let that stop the fight, but does caution discretion.
intheflow
(30,107 posts)Like abolishing ICE and the Epstein files? If you say so, KKKaroline.
WHERE'S THE EPSTEIN FILES ALREADY?
I don't see things getting more affordable either.
How 'bout we talk about those.
underpants
(195,749 posts)So its more of the:
He didnt do or say that
Okay he did but you dont understand what he meant
Relax/ it was a joke.
BattleRow
(2,179 posts)malaise
(294,663 posts)Brilliant 😀
Rec
Kid Berwyn
(23,841 posts)Thanks, Putin.
Emile
(41,615 posts)mountain grammy
(28,855 posts)GiqueCee
(3,716 posts)... that poor child, with a mother like Karoline Leavitt.
surfered
(12,549 posts)Botany
(76,854 posts)Posting that blatant racist computer generated image was wrong and myself and President Trump
apologize for doing so and it was an unthinking action. The racism in that image is unAmerican.
Btw 35% of Americans are good with this level of racism they are Trumps base.
AverageOldGuy
(3,622 posts)That's not the point, fool.
Why is the most powerful man in the world, the man with his finger on the nuclear trigger, spending his nights firing off hours and hours of social media junk??
And why are you defending him??
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(134,258 posts)mymomwasright
(439 posts)Johnny2X2X
(23,908 posts)When all of these monsters slink away to live the rest of their lives in shame, unable to show their faces in public.
eShirl
(20,165 posts)Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,917 posts)on those fools Clyde took right turns on. But I like your reference to the movie!
rubbersole
(11,135 posts)..I'd post it if I could.
Response to eShirl (Reply #22)
rubbersole This message was self-deleted by its author.
Ol Janx Spirit
(874 posts)...like reporters not smiling enough when they ask you questions about your pedophile past; or who is performing at the halftime of the Super Bowl; or meanies saying mean things and wearing buttons at the Grammys.
It's not like racism ever hurt anyone.....
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(134,258 posts)Though let me just say it's not the b word.
angrychair
(11,988 posts)They will bully the press into accepting this racist trash and they will all nod their heads like bobble headed dolls and do whatever they are told.
Fvkc the news media. All of it. All of them. They are all worthless sycophants, sucking up to a madman.
thesquanderer
(12,933 posts)The lack of that context provides its own context, too.
wolfie001
(7,448 posts)EnergizedLib
(2,997 posts)Anybody with any decency? Any African American who sees it, regardless of how they voted?
So, lets say if even this doesnt matter to the American public, what about stocks being plummeted, the bad job market, layoffs inching higher in January?
Solly Mack
(96,737 posts)Wednesdays
(22,085 posts)Well the 25th Amendment actually matters to the American public, no?
flashman13
(2,238 posts)COL Mustard
(8,090 posts)Surely she is holier than the rest of us???
flashman13
(2,238 posts)No different that the Mar-A-Lardo faces.
Beck23
(411 posts)Ping Tung
(4,289 posts)raccoon
(32,309 posts)Corrupts absolutely.
Ill have to look up the rest of his quotes. Mustve been a pretty smart fellow.
Ping Tung
(4,289 posts)Blue Owl
(58,708 posts)Ms. Leavitt, please explain the goddamned double standard to us, you enabling traitor...
QED
(3,327 posts)Always the same when he gets called out.
Bengus81
(9,991 posts)screed too. Why that husband of yours hasn't file for divorce is beyond me.
COL Mustard
(8,090 posts)Have reached bottom, they surprise me by digging lower. They are truly disgusting.
ChicagoTeamster
(666 posts)struggle4progress
(125,814 posts)William Seger
(12,324 posts)Jacson6
(1,860 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(177,544 posts)After Karoline Leavitt tried to defend the latest example of the presidents routine racism, the White House stepped on her dreadful argument.
Trump amplifying another racist video got me thinking about the commitment he made to Black voters in his second inaugural â and how quickly he returned to the kind of gutter racism that helped fuel his political rise in the first place. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-02-06T16:01:29.577Z
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-house-tries-to-defend-trump-amplifying-a-racist-video-targeting-the-obamas
The list, alas, continues to grow longer. The Associated Press reported:
President Donald Trump used his social media account to share a video about election conspiracy theories that includes a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle. [ ]
Nearly all of the 62-second clip, which was among dozens of Truth Social posts from Trump overnight, appears to be from a conservative video alleging deliberate tampering with voting machines in battleground states as the 2020 presidential votes were tallied. At the 60-second mark is a quick scene of two primates, with the Obamas smiling faces imposed on them.
The fact that the Republican president didnt make the video himself is hardly exculpatory: Trump saw the video and thought itd be a good to idea to amplify it, just as he did in his first term when he promoted a video of a supporter wearing Trump campaign gear while shouting white power!...
Republican Sen. Tim Scott, who is Black, wrote online that he was praying the video was fake because its the most racist thing Ive seen out of this White House. The South Carolinian, whos currently chairing the National Republican Senatorial Committee, added: The President should remove it.....
Complicating matters, a few hours after Leavitt tried to defend the racist video, the White House changed its story, saying in a statement, A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down.
Evidently, the press secretarys fake outrage line proved unsustainable.
In his second inaugural address, Trump said: To the Black and Hispanic communities, I want to thank you for the tremendous outpouring of love and trust that you have shown me with your vote. We set records, and I will not forget it. Ive heard your voices in the campaign, and I look forward to working with you in the years to come.
Like too many of Trumps promises, he wasted little time in trashing this commitment and returning to the kind of gutter racism that helped fuel his political rise in the first place.
Hassler
(4,844 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(177,544 posts)
mdbl
(8,376 posts)She's obviously a graduate of Drump University where you can get a degree for not showing up.
LetMyPeopleVote
(177,544 posts)trump is truly mentally ill. This video was a pure racist attack on the Obamas and had nothing to do with voter fraudl
Donald Trump has excused the sharing of a racist video featuring Barack and Michelle Obama to his Truth Social account as it actually details voter fraud.
— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-02-13T15:05:59.657Z
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-obama-2675265609/
The president has erroneously claimed for years that the 2020 elections were rigged. His second term in the White House has led to some pressure on mail-in ballots and the repetition of claims that the Democratic Party did not win the 2020 election. Trump's post to Truth Social last week was criticized by politicians, though the president has tried to explain why the video had been shared, The Daily Beast reported.
He told reporters on Thursday, "That was a video on, as you know, on voter fraud. It was a fairly long video, and they had a little piece and it had to do with the Lion King. Its doing very well, uh, its been shown all over the place, long before that was posted.
"But that was a very strong - and Im sure you saw it - a very strong piece on voter fraud, and the piece we were talking about was all over the place, many times I believe, for years."
The video was shared to Trump's Truth Social account at around midnight on February 6, with the current president sharing a host of posts, including this video. Said video runs for one minute and two seconds, with the final seconds of the video depicting Barack and Michelle as animals.
Trump had previously targeted Obama with an artificially generated video of the former president being arrested in the Oval Office. The deepfake video appeared in July last year on the president's Truth Social account.