First: “it’s fake”
— Cooper (@justcuuper) February 6, 2026
Then: “it’s real but he’s trolling you”
Now: “it was a staffer that posts to his account without him having any knowledge of it”
Soon: “it’s a hoax”
He was referring to President Donald Trump's post on his Untruth Social
late Thursday night of a video that included a racist animation of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama depicted with the bodies of apes.
After backlash, the White House at about noon Friday said the post had been taken down from the president's page.
The roughly minutelong video, shared by Trump at 11:44 p.m. ET on Thursday, largely focused on debunked claims about the 2020 election.
At the end of the video, the Obamas' faces appear abruptly and without explanation for seconds with the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" playing over it. The video then ends back on similar imagery of the conspiracy video footage.
A few Republicans (not many), such as Senator Tim Scott, a black Republican from South Carolina, have reacted appropriately. However, John James, a black US Representative and two-time unsuccessful GOP candidate for governor of Michigan, did not.
I was shocked and appalled by that post.
— John James (@JohnJamesMI) February 6, 2026
I know the President. He is not racist.
I’m glad to see that trash has been taken down. https://t.co/GJgUNvRSN6
Well, actually, Donald Trump is a racist. We've suspected that for many years, well before on Deccember 16, 2023
“They let — I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” Trump told the crowd at a rally in New Hampshire. “That’s what they’ve done. They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just to three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world. They’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.”
Trump then repeated the use of “poisoning” in a post on his social media website Truth Social, saying overnight in an all-caps post, that “illegal immigration is poisoning the blood of our nation. They’re coming from prisons, from mental institutions — from all over the world.”
The term “blood poisoning” was used by Hitler in his manifesto “Mein Kampf,” in which he criticized immigration and the mixing of races. “All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning,” Hitler wrote."
"Poisoning the blood of our country" is not using a dogwhistle but screaming "racist." Whatever the valid explanation for Thursday's reprehensible video, Donald Trump is a racist and almost certainly has been for a long time. However, he could , if not make amends, show real leadership. He could say it was a mistake to post this, then find the person or persons responsible for it, and fire them.
However, that would require real leadership, which Donald would much rather fake than demonstrate. However, to be fair and non-partisan, this may be common among two-term presidents. The last two-term president and the last two-term Democratic president since Bill Clinton, has responded in a starkly indirect way.
To all the athletes representing @TeamUSA: I'm so proud of you. Your talent and perseverance have brought you to this moment, and Michelle and I will be joining Americans from across the country cheering you on.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 7, 2026
Oh so bold. The man who is serving in the office Barack Obama held for eight years shows his true colors (no pun intended), working indirectly with Russian president Vladimir Putin to break up NATO, and set federal law enforcement upon both illegal immigratns and legal immigrants in a brutal and punitive manner. Membes of Obama's own party are swinging hard at Donald Trump for a social media post depicting Barack and wife Michelle as animals. Carrying water for him, they are, and the ex-President so boldly tweets out a message "cheering you on."
Audacious! Courageous! In Obama's defense, former President George W. Bush has said nothing about Trump's message, and won't. He, too, was a two-term President and unlike Barack Obama- who has said a little about Trump's immigration tactics- Bush has said nothing.
I'm not sure what that says about us as voters and as a people, but it probably is nothing good. Still, we deserve much better than Donald J. Trump- the one who is a clear-cut, palpable bigot and. though less obvious to the naked eye, the fellow for whom leadership is a four-letter word.
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