Washington.- U.S. President Donald Trump said this Friday that he will not apologize for the publication of a video on his official Truth Social account where former President Barack Obama (2009-2017), and former First Lady Michelle were portrayed as apes, and the video was subsequently removed from the platform after receiving harsh criticism for its racist content.
A journalist asked Trump, aboard AF1 heading to Florida, if his Administration would apologize for the publication of this video and he replied: “
no, I made no mistake”.
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The president added that he is not going to fire the person who made the video, which he claimed not to have seen in its entirety and that he only “gave it to the people” to publish it.
The racist representation of marriage as chimpanzees in a jungle occurs at the end of a cut in which the song ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ plays and which is about the alleged intervention to manipulate the voting machines of
Dominion Voting System in the 2020 presidential elections in which the Democrat
Joe Biden (2021-2025) defeated Trump.
Dominion Voting System won several lawsuits against media outlets allied with the narrative promoted by Trump that they were behind a supposed manipulation of the election results, something they proved as false in the courts in several cases.
The racist cut that mocks the Obamas is shown in the last second of the video shared by Trump on Truth Social and appears to have been created by an Instagram user (xerias_x) who creates videos with artificial intelligence and pro-Trump memes.
The video’s removal is an unusual move for Trump, especially after White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said hours earlier that the outrage generated by the content was “feigned indignation.”
“This is a viral internet video that depicts President Trump as the King of the Jungle and the Democrats as characters from The Lion King,” wrote the press secretary in a statement shared with the media hours before the video was removed.
The publication generated criticism even from members of the Republican Party, including Tim Scott, a black senator from South Carolina who is considered a close ally of the New York magnate.
“I am praying that it is false, because it is the most racist thing I have seen come out of the White House. The president should remove it,” Scott wrote on his X profile.
