FAKE OUTRAGE: White House defends Trump over video showing Obamas as apes…

BREAKING: Full video that briefly appeared on President Trump’s TruthSocial post. pic.twitter.com/eLLD8yjxmq

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The White House defended President Trump after he shared a meme video portraying the Obamas and other Democrats as animals, sparking bipartisan backlash and condemnation from a key GOP senator who called it overtly racist and urged its removal.

VIA NEWYORK POST

White House defends Trump over video showing Obamas as apes after key ally condemns ‘most racist thing I’ve seen’
The White House dismissed backlash over a meme video posted by President Trump that depicted former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as apes despite a key GOP senator calling the clip the “most racist thing I’ve seen” and demanding it be taken down.

“This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from ‘The Lion King,’” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a Friday statement.

“Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.”

Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) immediately broke with the White House, saying on X: “Praying it [the post] was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it.”

The roughly one-minute video, which appeared on Trump’s Truth Social account late Thursday, was mostly focused on claims of vote-rigging in the 2020 election but showed AI-generated images of the Obamas as apes while the song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” played in the background.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt statement on President Donald Trump posting a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys:

“This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion…

It was pulled from a longer video depicting prominent Democrats including former President Joe Biden, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom as characters from the animated Disney film.

Biden appeared as a chimp, Schumer as a zebra and Newsom who called on all Republicans to denounce the video may have been an impala.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker also appeared in the video as an elephant, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who is also black, was portrayed as a meerkat and former Vice President Kamala Harris was a turtle.

“President Trump: King of the Jungle,” read the original post, most of the footage from which did not make it into the Truth Social video.

Trump told NBC News in an interview recorded Wednesday that he “sometimes will retweet” or “retruth” posts that he doesn’t verify first including claims about the hacking of voting machines by foreign actors.

Reps for the Obamas did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

🔥🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump is officially a racist according to Democrats after being accused of posting an AI video depicting the Obamas as monkeys. I just broke that narrative. pic.twitter.com/NQTqs67cnN

— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) February 6, 2026