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There's a term used in legal circles called "consciousness of guilt."
The clip, set to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” was spliced near the end of a 62-second video that promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and was posted by Mr. Trump late Thursday night. It was the latest in a pattern by Mr. Trump of promoting offensive imagery and slurs about Black Americans and others.
The decision to delete the link from his social media site was an unusual walk-back by Mr. Trump, whose own press secretary just hours earlier had brushed off criticism of the video as “fake outrage” and made no attempt to distance the president from it.
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, the Senate’s only Black Republican and a close ally of Mr. Trump, wrote on X that he hoped the post was fake “because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it.”
“This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King,” the press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said in a statement, before the clip was deleted. “Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/us/politics/trump-obamas-video-apes-truth-social.html
As it turns out, the public and even some R's find it disgusting when the prez posts a racist video. It makes trump voters and R's who support him look bad. It makes Karoline Leavitt look bad too for defending Don.
The racists, like some folks on the board, like trump, they don't really care.
Trump Deletes Racist Video of Obamas After Outcry
President Trump posted a blatantly racist video clip portraying former President Barack Obama and the former first lady Michelle Obama as apes, then deleted it after an unusually strong outcry from members of his own party.The clip, set to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” was spliced near the end of a 62-second video that promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and was posted by Mr. Trump late Thursday night. It was the latest in a pattern by Mr. Trump of promoting offensive imagery and slurs about Black Americans and others.
The decision to delete the link from his social media site was an unusual walk-back by Mr. Trump, whose own press secretary just hours earlier had brushed off criticism of the video as “fake outrage” and made no attempt to distance the president from it.
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, the Senate’s only Black Republican and a close ally of Mr. Trump, wrote on X that he hoped the post was fake “because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it.”
“This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King,” the press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said in a statement, before the clip was deleted. “Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/us/politics/trump-obamas-video-apes-truth-social.html
As it turns out, the public and even some R's find it disgusting when the prez posts a racist video. It makes trump voters and R's who support him look bad. It makes Karoline Leavitt look bad too for defending Don.
The racists, like some folks on the board, like trump, they don't really care.
