Donald Trump video portraying Obama’s as apes

Yes, I've done more research and it appears I was wrong.

Comment cheerfully withdrawn and mea culpa applied.

Oh dear @Ledwood85 .

The White House has confirmed Trump shared the video created by Xerias.

https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-responds-to-backlash-over-racist-post-depicting-obamas-as-apes-11476698

He might not have created it but he posted it.

Was someone holding his hand and pressed post for him?

That boot you're so enthusiastically licking - enjoying it, are you?

The New York Times, among other top media, has reported it.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/us/politics/trump-obamas-video-apes-truth-social.html

Is Trump saying he's been hacked?

I don't really disagree with anything you've said.

I think the difference for me between the examples in your second paragraph and Trump is that all of your examples have the chance to make a measurable difference. The teacher can educate the child, we can ostracise the friend at the dinner party, deleting the posts on the forum means the racist is just shouting into the void.

Criticising Trump doesn't have an equivalent effect. If anything, it just emboldens him, feeds into his us against the world narrative he has for his base. It's like he's a toddler who's discovered that shouting a swear word gets a reaction. There are no consequences that will get him to shut up, so the only way to deal with it is to not give him the oxygen.

I realise I'm in the minority on this though, so I'll pipe down and stop derailing the thread

His being the President of the USA is EVERYTHING to do with us therefore his appalling behaviour is everything to do with us. He’s smashed to pieces a NATO agreement that had kept peace for over 80 years. He’s destabilising the UK and Europe. He’s crashing the stock markets. Of course what he does is to do with us

It's a feature-not a bug- with Trump. His voters love this.

Trump's words do matter. They embolden the worst impulses in the worst people. We need to keep saying over and over that this is abhorrent, that it's not normal and that we don't condone or endorse it. However tedious that might get for us and however much we might wish he would just crawl back under his rock and fuck off forever.

If a kid in a classroom makes monkey noises at the black students, the teacher shouldn't ignore it. If a friend at a dinner party refers to black people as monkeys, we shouldn't turn a blind eye. If someone writes racist posts online, a decently moderated platform should delete and ban. If the President of the United fucking States does this and is ignored, why should anyone else who is harbouring racist opinions hide them any longer? What's to stop them from doing the same?

By ignoring this, we make a world that is friendlier to racists and more hostile to people of colour. It's pretty important to me that our politicians aren't ushering in that kind of world, but rather that they are doing what they can, openly and publicly, to fight against it.

Donald Trump could commit literal murder and not be removed from power.

I cannot abide this notion that the rest of the world should ignore it

It is not a US problem, it's an issue for HUMANITY and last time I checked that's as global as it can be.

Everyone with a platform should absolutely speak against it in the strongest possible way

But that’s his MO. If our leaders criticised every horrible batshit thing Trump did they would literally be talking about him all day every day, which is what he wants, and which would end up with them sounding like the teacher from South Park. They should do what they are doing, ie keep on building a world where we can not be in hock to a regime like this.

Trump and his henchmen make plenty of criticisms of our politicians. And also using the distraction argument is just a back door way of allowing racist comments. It’s possible to criticise him for this and other things as well at the same time

If I were Starmer, I wouldn’t make a statement about any egregious horror like this on Twitter. However, id get a press bod to tip off the meeja that if asked, he’d make a brutally rude response about it.

Did you see the fake rasping cough during a speech which was taking the mickey of Biden’s cancer

That's fair, but I still just don't really see what it achieves. Are people of colour in the UK really being reassured by Starmer or Ed Davey making a statement on this?

I just feel that it somehow makes Trumps words matter more in some ways.

There are plenty of racist world leaders, we don't comment every time one of them comes out with something racist. But because it's the USA, because it's Trump, we have to comment, we have to make a statement. It just feels like that by doing so we legitimise him. It feels like it makes what he says more important, even when he's saying something utterly abhorrent. (which is most of the time)

I'm just really fucking sick of him, and of the influence he has.

He represents people of colour. He represents people who are horrified and offended by racism. He represents people who are concerned about the pernicious and relentless rise of the far-right and persecution of minorities.

Politicians are supposed to have and uphold values. I think it's a worthwhile use of Starmer's time to voice those values. Trump is too far down the rabbithole of hatred and dementia to grasp what is happening, but it matters less what Trump thinks and more what the world thinks. It's really important to demonstrate that racism and the stoking of conspiracy theories by the president is not acceptable to most people. Trump isn't a naughty puppy whose bad behaviour must be ignored; he's a powerful man in a position of huge influence. Those of us who are appalled by everything he stands for need to make that clear, not roll over.

He is an absolute abomination of a human, why am I not surprised he would do something like this. How he is still in office I will never know.

I really feel for POC in America, what hope do they have with such a bottom feeder in power, backed up by fellow racists and his supporters who will see nothing wrong with this.

But it is in the sense that its not an issue we can fix. That can only be done by the Americans.

It's not like Keir Starmer coming out and making a statement about it is going to change a single person in the USA's mind about Trump. It's not going to make impeachment more likely, or provoke protests. It's not going to make Trump think "Yeah, maybe I am a twat."

It's just tilting at windmills, and I'd rather he spent the 15 minutes he'd spend crafting that statement on something that might actually make a difference for the people he represents.

…are we only allowed to condemn bad behaviour when it’s without our borders?

that's the president of the united states, and nothing can be done to remove him? we're all doomed

It's not really a USA issue when the man has power and influence that extends across the world. It's not like it's Peter from small town America posting this, it's a man with nuclear weapons at the tip of his fingers.

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