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US President Donald Trump has defended his decision to repost a video on his Truth Social platform that portrayed former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as monkeys. Speaking to reporters late Friday while travelling on Air Force One, Trump said he did nothing wrong by sharing…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s racist social media post featuring former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle was deleted Friday after a backlash from both Republicans and Democrats who criticized the video as offensive. Trump said later Friday that he won't apologize…

Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the week, but we will be back on Monday. Here are the latest developments: Donald Trump told reporters that he did direct aides to post a racist video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes on his…

The moments in which it feels like President Donald Trump has crossed a line seem to happen more frequently these days. In just the last few weeks we’ve had the cruel mockery of the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife, the spasm of brinksmanship over Greenland, the smearing of…

Republicans suddenly seemed shocked that President Trump is capable of racism after he posted a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes Thursday night.  On Friday morning, longest-serving Black Senator Tim Scott called the video “the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House”—spurring other GOP senators…

President Trump's post of a racist video of former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama underscores how imagery long recognized as among the most explicit racist tropes in U.S. history have become normalized in the Trump era.Why it matters: For decades, such imagery routinely ended careers...Read More

United States President Donald Trump has deleted a post from his Truth Social account following widespread backlash over a video that briefly showed former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama with their faces edited onto the bodies of monkeys. The one-minute clip, shared late Thursday, repeated debunked…

Image Credit: The Washington Post via Getty Im Donald Trump ‘s social media activity has always been headline-worthy, whether he retweets a controversial post or pens a lengthy Truth Social paragraph. But the 79-year-old’s since-deleted Truth Social video of former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama sparked outrage,…

An overtly racist video clip of the Obamas posted on President Trump's Truth Social was taken down on Friday. Why it matters: The clip, which portrayed former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes, used a centuries-old trope against the first Black president and first lady in…

Last Updated: February 06, 2026, 23:52 IST The video had received several thousand likes on Trump’s platform, drawing sharp criticism from Democrats and public figures. Near the end, the Obamas’ faces appear on the bodies of monkeys for about one second. The White House on Friday said that a post…