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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. NERMEEN SHAIKH: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Nermeen Shaikh, with Amy Goodman. President Trump is refusing to apologize for publishing a racist video that depicts former President Obama and Michelle Obama as apes. The video was…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Sunday his GOP colleagues in Congress “finally showed some backbone” in pushing back against a video President Trump posted on Truth Social Thursday evening portraying former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes. “It was a disgusting video...Read More

Roomies… things got tense at the White House this week when a post meant to highlight alleged voter fraud quickly spiraled into a major controversy. President Donald Trump found himself in the center of a firestorm after a video depicting former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama…

Comedian Bill Maher on Friday called the White House "f---ing hypocrites" over what he called a "rather lame" defense of a since-deleted video depicting former President Obama and former Michelle Obama as apes. The host, on a recent episode of "Real Time," referred to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's…

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