Donald Trump video portraying Obama’s as apes

[Moen]

Sorry if I missed a thread, but has anyone else seen this?

It’s fucking disgusting.

I thought nothing this man could do would shock me anymore, how can he still be in office?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

He might not have created it but he posted it.

Was someone holding his hand and pressed post for him?

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

Oh dear @Ledwood85 .

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

Comment cheerfully withdrawn and mea culpa applied.

@Moen can you describe what it is you saw exactly? Thanks

Any comment on the video itself and what it says about Trump?

Racist and vile

I feel his downfall has to come from within the Republican party and lets hope the collectively join to rid themselves of this person who isn't and never was fit to be president

I haven’t seen it. I’m not surprised. The man is a lunatic, an embarrassment, mostly important he is a rapist, yet he is still the president. Vile.

RichardOnslowRoper's post explains it. I have seen the video, but I don't really want to put it into words here as it is so vile.

Our politicians should mention it to distance ourselves and absolutely condemn trumps actions. How can we be seen as friends with this!

I’m guessing you wanted it be true it was a fake whereas those of us who know what that vile creature truly is knew it was genuine.

Anyone who voted for this vile man should be thoroughly ashamed. Shame on the lot of them!

From the Guardian

The racist depiction of the Obamas – the first Black president and first lady in American history – appears at the end of a one-minute video perpetuating the false and disproven claims that ballot-counting company Dominion Voting Systems helped steal the 2020 presidential election from Trump. The company in 2023 settled for $787.5m with Fox News in a landmark defamation lawsuit.

For two seconds, the video shows the smiling faces of the Obamas superimposed on monkeys bobbing to The Lion Sleeps Tonight.

I think the problem is the American media. The US media has, to a certain extent, to kowtow to the US President. They must always address him very respectfully even when he pulls shit like this. It’s a different institution to media in Europe and many other counties. He might be a racist, sexist, overall disgusting human being but he’s OUR PRESIDENT, which means he must be treated respectfully and only asked nice questions. Of course this doesn’t apply to every media (eg the late night talk shows etc) but it applies to all the mainstream papers/media which in most counties hold the sway of the power. He simply isn’t held accountable by the media to the extent that other western policiticans are. I guess the system always worked for them previously, but that was dependent on the president treating the office with a certain minimum of decency. And then enter someone like Trump and their system falls apart.