Trump Shares Post Depicting Obamas as Monkeys

A video posted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s Truth Social account contained a racist depiction of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.

At the end of the 62-second video—otherwise about voting machines—the Obamas’ faces appear on apes’ bodies for about 1 second as The Tokens’ song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” plays.

The image of the Obamas carries a watermark @XERIAS_X, which corresponds with a Trump-supporting X account with about 46,000 followers.

“Disgusting behavior by the President,” Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom said in a post on X, reacting to the video. “Every single Republican must denounce this. Now.”

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