{"id":5470,"date":"2026-02-17T06:12:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/?p=5470"},"modified":"2026-02-17T06:13:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:13:55","slug":"barack-obama-breaks-silence-on-racist-video-shared-by-trump-depicting-him-and-michelle-as-apes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/?p=5470","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama breaks silence on racist video shared by Trump depicting him and Michelle as apes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reaction to the US President Trump\u2019s racist video attacking the Obamas was initially called \u2018fake outrage\u2019
\nBarack Obama has finally addressed the racist video that was shared by the current occupier of the Oval Office, which depicted the former President and First Lady as apes.<\/p>\n

The offensive video, which was shared from President Trump\u2019s Truth Social account, showed America\u2019s first black president and his wife as primates while the song \u2018The Lion Sleeps Tonight\u2019 plays in the background.<\/p>\n

It played as a small clip at the end of a larger video making unsubstantiated claims about election fraud, yet as the White House was first asked why the president had shared shared such racist imagery, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt decried the questions as \u2018fake outrage\u2019.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the latest episode of Brian Taylor Cohen\u2019s podcast, Obama said: \u201cFirst of all, I think it\u2019s important to recognise that the majority of the American people find this behaviour deeply troubling,\u201d<\/p>\n

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These comments have been Obama\u2019s first since the video was shared, which the White House ultimately blamed on a junior staffer after its claims of fake outrage did nothing to quell the fury from many black Republicans over the racist clip.<\/p>\n

At the time, Senator Tim Scott simply called it \u2018the most racist thing I\u2019ve seen out of this White House\u2019.
\nTypically for the former president, he did not want to get into the weeds about why the video had been shared from Trump\u2019s account. Instead he set it in a wider context: \u201cIt is true that it gets attention. It\u2019s true that it\u2019s a distraction.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou meet people, they still believe in decency, courtesy, kindness, and there\u2019s this sort of clown show that\u2019s happening in social media and on television.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Yet Press Secretary Leavitt\u2019s initial response to claims that the video was racist, was to tell the public to not believe their eyes, saying: \u201cThis is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from The Lion King.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.\u201d
\nAnd as Trump was pressed on if he would apologize to his predecessor, he asked what he had to apologize for. \u201cI didn\u2019t do anything wrong,\u201d he told a reporter.<\/p>\n

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Not that this went unnoticed by the former president, who used his typical tact to not mention Trump by name but blast the lack of \u2018decorum\u2019 in public office.<\/p>\n

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He said: \u201cAnd what is true is that there doesn\u2019t seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sort of decorum and a sense of propriety and respect for the office, right?<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s been lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

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