{"id":14406,"date":"2026-02-07T03:35:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/?p=14406"},"modified":"2026-02-10T06:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:44:29","slug":"trump-refuses-to-apologize-for-obama-monkey-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/07\/trump-refuses-to-apologize-for-obama-monkey-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump refuses to apologize for Obama monkey meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White House says a staffer posted a video depicting the former president and his wife as apes by mistake<\/strong><\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump has declined to apologize after a video depicting former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as apes was posted on his Truth Social account. The now-deleted clip was condemned by both Democrats and Republicans as racist and deeply offensive.<\/p>\n

According to Axios, the video was posted to Trump’s account on Thursday night and remained online for nearly 12 hours. The AI-generated clip was originally created by an account that posts pro-Trump memes.<\/p>\n

White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt dismissed the backlash on Friday morning as “fake outrage.”<\/em> The video was later taken down, and a White House official said a “staffer erroneously made the post.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Trump distanced himself from the incident when questioned by reporters. Asked whether he would apologize, he replied, “No, I didn’t make a mistake.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“If they would have looked, they would have seen it, and probably they would have had the sense to take it down,”<\/em> Trump said. Asked whether he condemned the video’s content, he replied, “Of course I do.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“I guess during the end of it, there was some kind of a picture that people don’t like. I wouldn’t like it either, but I didn’t see it,”<\/em> Trump said on Air Force One.<\/p>\n

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Praying it was fake because it\u2019s the most racist thing I\u2019ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it. https:\/\/t.co\/gADoM13ssZ<\/a><\/p>\n

— Tim Scott (@votetimscott) February 6, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from New York, accused Trump of posting “this disgusting video”<\/em> deliberately. “F**k Donald Trump and his vile, racist and malignant behavior. This guy is an unhinged bottom-feeder,”<\/em> Jeffries said in a video address on Instagram.<\/p>\n

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Republican Senator Tim Scott condemned the video as “the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Representative Brian Fitzpatrick, a Republican from Pennsylvania, said the post amounted to “a grave failure of judgment”<\/em> and called for “a clear and unequivocal apology.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The White House says a staffer posted a video depicting the former president and his wife as apes by mistake US President Donald Trump has declined to apologize after a video depicting former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as apes was posted on his Truth Social account. The…<\/p>\n

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