One of the many dubious guidelines Donald Trump got from leader Roy Cohn was “admit nothing, deny everything,” and today that approach is revealed as the former. apprentice The host tried to get away from a vile AI-generated video posted on his Truth Social that depicted Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as monkeys.
“No, I didn’t make a mistake,” Trump, who calls himself “the least racist president in a long time,” said tonight as he apologized to the former first couple for their racist posts. The president, who still blames an unnamed junior staffer for the post, spoke to reporters Friday on Air Force One as he flew from Washington, D.C., to his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida.
“I’m looking at many things, thousands of things, but it was fine in the first place,” he added, according to Poole’s report. “If you look at where it came from, it’s Lion King.”
No one ever does anything wrong, receives backlash from almost everyone, and admits knowledge of things, like this late night post from the Obamas. President Trump also said, including some hardcore MAGA heads, “I didn’t watch the whole thing. I think there was probably some footage at the end that people didn’t like. I didn’t like it either.”
President Trump claimed on Friday that the plane was “taken down as soon as we found out.” Asked tonight if he disavowed the racist messages in the video, the Republican said: “Of course I do.” Still, the statement that the video was quickly removed because its explicit depiction caused a fierce reaction is not entirely true.
The 55-second video, first posted late last year by the @XERIAS_X account, depicts President Trump as a lion, while Hillary Clinton and current New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani are depicted as a warthog and a hyena, respectively. In case there’s any ambiguity about what happened, the video ends with a two-second scene of the Obamas dressed as monkeys dancing to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” in the jungle.
Condemned by 2028 candidates Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, as well as Democrats across the country, the loud dog whistle even caused Trump supporter Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) to blast the video. Scott, who is running to be the next governor of South Carolina, tweeted: “I hope it’s fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen in this White House. The President should take it down.”
When President Trump calls something “the most racist thing,” he is actually condemning it. The fact that this post was made six days before Black History Month, and amidst mounting questions about Trump’s ties to the distraction king and those around him, against the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, didn’t seem like a coincidence.
Earlier, the White House took its usual counterattack stance (also Cohn Rule), with press secretary Caroline Leavitt defending the post. “This is from an internet meme video that depicts President Trump as the king of the jungle and Democrats as the next in line. lion king“Stop the false outrage and report today about the things that actually matter to the American people,” Levitt said.
As Deadline reported earlier Friday, there are no monkeys in the Disney movie. lion kingso WH’s response is a bit off, to say the least. Nevertheless, as the fallout grew, the government removed the objectionable content. Immediately afterward, the company announced that it had been posted in error by a White House staff member.It has been deleted.
Holding staff accountable is nothing new for President Trump. He’s been doing it for at least 10 years.
President Trump tonight insisted he knows what’s going on among his staffers, even though he claims he doesn’t know what they’re posting under his name. “‘I liked the first part, I saw it, so I passed it on,'” he said, without suggesting there would be any repercussions for those who posted. “By the way, I didn’t do it. This was someone else’s doing it. It was a reenactment of the truth.”
The hard truth is that while Trump, who launched his political career by attacking the citizenship and American birth of Hawaii-born Barack Obama, has declared that he did nothing he did, the former president and vagrant was taking the high road.
Barack Obama and Michelle Obama on stage at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in the former first lady’s hometown of Chicago, Illinois (Photo: Getty)
Clearly fearful of President Trump, President Obama and the former first lady took to social media on Friday to ignore President Trump and his vile video. Instead, they praised the American athletes who participated in the 25th Winter Games, which opened today in Italy.
In a sign of how Team Trump is viewed by many outside the United States, Team USA received a huge ovation at the opening ceremony of this year’s Olympics. Meanwhile, Vice President J.D. Vance was similarly booed and jeered as he stood before a crowd of 60,000 in the VIP section of Milan’s San Siro stadium.
