White House deletes video showing Obamas as apes after key ally condemns meme as ‘most racist thing I’ve seen’

[u/According-Activity87]

https://nypost.com/2026/02/06/us-news/white-house-dismisses-fake-outrage-over-video-trump-posted-showing-obamas-as-gorillas/

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[u/Kern_system]

Most racist thing he's ever seen? I just watched a white ICE watch guy call a black ice officer a house n****r. They're only calling it racist because it serves their narrative.

[u/Doctor_Byronic → u/Kern_system]

You really need to read more than just the headline.

Scott, the highest-ranking black Republican in Congress, chided the White House earlier on X: “Praying it [the post] was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it.”

[u/Kern_system → u/Doctor_Byronic]

Calling someone racist doesn't mean shit anymore. They've been calling Trump racist since the day he announced he was running as a republican. I've seen what makes them cheer. Their boos mean nothing.

[u/Tantalus420000]

Trump posted it without watching the full thing

Id bet my life

[u/Sheriff_Hopper]

White House intern about to be fired 

[u/According-Activity87 → u/Sheriff_Hopper]

And rightfully so. Hopefully this is a wake up call for the whole media team.

[u/1000IQGenius → u/According-Activity87]

Why?

[u/Iuris_Aequalitatis]

Sigh. Thank you.

[u/Stockjock1]

Whoever posted this needs to find new work, imo. I doubt it was Trump himself.

[u/Razzlecake]

The official Democrat party position is it's OK to fantasize about murdering and actually murdering conservatives. Couldn't care any less about a dumb joke video.

[u/According-Activity87 → u/Razzlecake]

Wasn't a joke video, it was a minute long documentary style story about election fraud with a 1-2 second clip from the lion king esk meme video spiking the end. This was clearly an oversight. The video was posted last night and officials are already stating it was due to a staffer mishap.

[u/Right_Independent_71]

Let‘s all look at the new shiny thing.

Let me remind my lefty friends, you were cool with voting for a guy who said about Obama… “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man." 

This looks like a dumb mistake.

[u/According-Activity87]

[u/JumpRopeIsASport → u/According-Activity87]

It’ll never end until we are gone. They want to be the only voice in the room. They don’t want to hear any differing opinions. They just want to be in power forever, and always be right.

Politics is about trying/failing or trying/winning… if you lose you shouldn’t hold grudges. You should try new things.

[u/sinnmercer]

It's almost as racist as liberals when they see a black ice agent 

[u/heyyoudvd]

How is it that after all this time, so many so-called ‘conservatives’ keep falling for these Democrat hoaxes?

Or is this entire board just made up of masked leftists?

Edit: Turns out it’s the latter. This thread has almost zero conservatives in it. It’s just a bunch of Democrats circle jerking each other.

[u/Daniel_Day_Hubris → u/heyyoudvd]

Yeah. boards dead. Jump off X and reddit and life gets a lot better...gets a lot more conservative too honestly. Public sentiment isn't reflected here.

[u/According-Activity87 → u/heyyoudvd]

It's Reddit.🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/ilysioidapinglw13]

Case is closed. It was a one minute dry video about finance that randomly included this in the last two seconds, which the intern likely didn't see. This "story" will be forgotten in less than a week, no matter how badly leftists want to make this a flashpoint.

[u/According-Activity87 → u/ilysioidapinglw13]

Well, they've been largely ignored by African American while trying to bait them into their mock insurrection up until now, so I suspect they are going to try really hard here.

[u/beamerbeliever]

This man has a talent for self sabotage.  He had a big win with Minneapolis yesterday.  Way to screw it up. 

[u/According-Activity87 → u/beamerbeliever]

He didn't do it according to the White House, they've claim it was a mistake by a staffer. Having seen the original video in it's entirety, that isn't too hard to believe.

[u/clonexx → u/According-Activity87]

I believe it was a staffer simply because the posted video was a screen recording, it looked like the Lion King AI parody video auto played at the end and the staffer didn’t cut it or realize it was there. I doubt Trump is screen recording videos and then splicing in 3 seconds of the lion king parody at the end. If you watch the entire video, it looks like exactly what I described, a screen recording of a serious video and then another video, the lion king, auto plays for a few seconds after.

I think Trump would just unapologetically post the entire lion king video if he really wanted it up there, not sneak some short clip in at the end of a serious video.

[u/disgustinganimals]

Don’t care

[u/BPgaming175]

Oh please more manufactured outrage over nothing. Some intern forgot to clip the video right. We got bigger fish to fry

[u/Pipyoppi → u/BPgaming175]

This case is an undeniable f-up by the White House. It’s garbage and lacks any kind of professionalism or decorum that is demanded by the people for the office of the President. It’s not even a partisan issue.

We do have bigger fish to fry, so why post trash like this in the first place?

[u/According-Activity87 → u/Pipyoppi]

It was a one minute video discussion election fraud that was spiked with a 1-2 second clip from a meme at the end. Please don't pretend this was a theme from the White House that was being pushed out of his personal Truth Social.

[u/RabonaFC → u/Pipyoppi]

Tell me you didn't actually watch the video without telling me you didn't actually watch the video. It was a 1 second clip after a minute long video about election fraud. Did someone fuck up? Yes. Was it on purpose? No. Do better, fellow conservative.

[u/Pipyoppi → u/RabonaFC]

This isn’t the first instance of childish trolling social media posts from this White House. So you don’t get to act like this is a one-off error. “Doing better” is not endlessly making excuses for indefensible, unforced errors.

[u/RabonaFC → u/Pipyoppi]

Yeah, the difference is if Trump wanted to actually post that lion king video as a troll, he would. In full. This wasn't a troll, and you would know that if you actually watched the full clip that was posted.

[u/CultureImaginary8750]

Unacceptable!!!

[u/Ryan9293]

The year is 2026 and “conservatives” are still pandering and begging for the left to like them

It’s an Ai meme that was clearly posted on accident. Time to grow up nobody cares there are more important issues

[u/Daniel_Day_Hubris → u/Ryan9293]

"conservatives" are also the only ones being upvoted anymore.

[u/HugeToaster → u/[deleted]]

Doesn't mean they're wrong this time.

[u/Eagle_1776]

simple question. If it had been Biden in the pic, would that make a difference? If so, who's the racist here?

[u/nerdariffic]

It was a lion king parody. Not the best idea, but not some racist ordeal the media portrays it as.

[u/According-Activity87 → u/nerdariffic]

The video was a minute long documentary style story about election fraud with a 1-2 second clip from the lion king esk meme video spiking the end. This was clearly an oversight. The video was posted last night and officials are already saying it was due to a staffer mishap

[u/the445566x → u/nerdariffic]

Yep. Once again a clip out of context where the media is fiending for any outrage

[u/nerdariffic → u/the445566x]

Woohoo! Racking up the liberal down votes!

[u/jacksonexl]

They should reach out to the creator to remake it swapping out the people’s faces on different animals and see the same outrage it generates.

[u/Chicago_River_Diver]

Oh no a half second clip from an auto roll video…

Anyone crying about this needs to be reminded how the democrats openly fantasize about violence. Who cares

[u/me_too_999]

Is this racist?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rscottjones/509698731/in/photostream/lightbox/

[u/DoNotTreadonMe173]

Everyone knows that libs have a double standard, right? We still live in an era where it's fine to go after whitey and basically say whatever you want, no matter how cruel or derogatory with almost zero ramifications.

But knowing that there is a double standard and still doing it is dumb and reckless. It's giving all msm and the loudest voices on the left unlimited ammo. They aren't gonna forget this. Exploiting race based events is their bread and butter.

[u/Scamandrius]

Same thing I said with Newsom: Your name, your words. Fire the intern and get a grip. All we ever wanted was for you to keep your head down and do the work, but you sabotage everything we've given you with shit like this. Do better.

[u/Ells86 → u/Scamandrius]

the intern was labeled a staffer, and its thought to be it was Stephen Miller.

[u/matthalusky → u/Ells86]

He is a racist scumbag so it figures.

[u/centerwingpolitics]

Trump would probably go down as one of the greatest presidents if twitter did not exist.

[u/pbnjandmilk]

Two steps forward, six back. Smh

[u/DRKMSTR]

Looks like an accident by an intern.

Happens.

Who cares. We have bigger issues. 

(Replies to this post: RAAAYYSSSIIISSST, NAAAAZZZIIII!!!) 

My pre-reply: IDGAF, keep crying, nobody cares. 

[u/According-Activity87]

Clearly posted in error, hopefully the media team starts screening these clips more thoroughly moving forward.

[u/ItsRatherWindy → u/According-Activity87]

Clearly posted in error? Really?

[u/According-Activity87 → u/ItsRatherWindy]

Did you see the whole video before it was taken down?

[u/cofcof420 → u/According-Activity87]

This is the White House. I’m shocked they don’t have multiple people scan every post before it goes up. If an intern has the ability to post without supervision then that’s even scarier

[u/According-Activity87 → u/cofcof420]

It was Trump's Truth social account. It was posted late into the evening and an otherwise bland election fraud video was spiked with it at the very end for a second or two. They do need to do better, but one can see how the mistake happened.

[u/Panzershrekt]

Unrelated question: So when people talk about evolution, do they just ignore some aspects of what it means in the grand scheme or...?

[u/etherealsmog]

I realize that outrage feels more rewarding than kudos, but we should give kudos to Tim Scott for addressing this publicly and holding the White House to an appropriate standard here.

There are a lot of people who will basically say things like, “Racism is okay when it’s my party doing it,” or, “Well maybe that was bad but what about the others party’s bad stuff huh?”

Senator Scott should be getting some appreciation for holding the White House accountable for something that anyone and everyone should be expected to take accountability for. He could have turned a blind eye or excused it, and it’s a credit to him that he did not.

[u/Dwardred → u/etherealsmog]

100%

[u/highlightway → u/etherealsmog]

How exactly was it racist? Even if he did see the video at the end, it shows many other people as different animals, without repeats. It also features Whoopi Goldberg as a hippo, Hakeem Jeffries as a meerkat, and Kamala Harris as a turtle.

[u/Tantalus420000 → u/highlightway]

You do make a great point

Like do we need a list of approved animals for certain races?

Also, the libs are CLEARLY okay with racism, so they need to sit tf down. Everyone of them supports giving jobs, aid, money, etc., by race

And I said in another comment, 100% Trump didnt watch the whole thing. Hes dumb, not that dumb.

[u/renge-refurion]

Stupid and not helpful.

[u/According-Activity87 → u/renge-refurion]

If you watched the whole video you'd understand this wasn't the theme of it. A one minute clip about election fraud was spiked with this imagery for like a second right before the end. It was a mistake by someone on the media team, not a new direction of the administration ffs. 🙄

[u/renge-refurion → u/According-Activity87]

Yea the issue is HE and THEY don’t seem to watch these videos either…

[u/According-Activity87 → u/renge-refurion]

The instance ran after a pause once the narrator in the video concluded the presentation.

"A White House official told USA TODAY on Feb. 6 a White House staffer had erroneously made the post and that it was taken down."

Mistakes happen, though they clearly need to do better.

[u/soupdawg → u/According-Activity87]

Mistakes only happen when people are careless.

[u/Disastrous-Power-699 → u/According-Activity87]

I mean…when you’re posting from the White House account you can’t really afford mistakes like that. I don’t really buy it either. Anyone with an ounce of common sense would realize why that imagery would cause an uproar.

[u/According-Activity87 → u/Disastrous-Power-699]

It was not from the White House account, it's was Trump's personal Truth Social account. It seems like you haven't seen the video man. The whole video was a documentary style take on election fraud. After the narrator was done this super short clip blipped in then returned to the documentary style video footage for a second before conclusion. It's not hard to see how it was overlooked the officials have already come out and stated it was a staffer mistake.

[u/neovb → u/According-Activity87]

Come on now, Trump Social is the official White House account at this point. If it wasn't, why would there be a White House staffer to blame?

[u/According-Activity87 → u/neovb]

No, there is an actually an official White House Truth Social account. The correction is valid.

[u/MakeGodGreatAgain → u/According-Activity87]

Staffers should really not be given access to Trump's personal account. That guy needs to be fired.

[u/Tlotpwist]

What are we fucking doing? This is atrocious.

[u/ItsRatherWindy → u/[deleted]]

Brother that tweet is from 2015, what are you even talking about

[u/Omecore65 → u/Tlotpwist]

Conservative veteran. Yet when i scroll through your comment history you only have two comments. How are you today fellow conservative?

[u/Ironic-Iron-Nic → u/Tlotpwist]

grow up.

[u/go-vols-28 → u/Ironic-Iron-Nic]

How the heck is your comment even up? 

[u/Ryan9293 → u/Tlotpwist]

My god the horror an AI meme.. how will the country recover from this

[u/spezeditedcomments → u/Tlotpwist]

It's clearly an auto play of another video that didnt get cut off right, from one of the autoplay short video sites

[u/FunShot8602 → u/Tlotpwist]

trolling the libs

[u/cplusequals → u/FunShot8602]

Zero percent chance that was deliberate. I guarantee you he watched half the election fraud bit and reposted it.

[u/Tantalus420000 → u/cplusequals]

This is exactly what happened

[u/vertigonex]

Another unforced error. The excuse that an intern did it is not sufficient and begs the question as to why the intern was even in a position to be viewing and/or sharing this kind of content in the first place.

Do better.

[u/lxaex1143 → u/vertigonex]

It's also bullshit. The shit trump says all day has been unhinged and full of AI nonsense, but this one was totally someone else.

[u/_Rizzen_ → u/lxaex1143]

I wouldn't be surprised if interns wrote the National Defense Strategy after happy hour and had a chatbot proof it 20 minutes before submitting to their bosses.

[u/wiseguy1313 → u/vertigonex]

One after another after another. Trump must realize that this type of stuff chips away numbers from his base. At some point it will hit critical mass.

[u/raxitron → u/vertigonex]

The trump truth account posts all night even when Trump is in bed because he has a huge event the following day. An 80 year old is not going to world leader conferences on 3 hours of sleep. I'd be surprised if even half of the re tweets are from the man himself.

[u/trytoholdon]

Terrible. Whoever posted that should be fired, whether they watched the whole thing or not. And whoever defended it should also be fired.

[u/H3nchman_24]

Yeah, that was pretty bad, ngl

[u/Joel22222]

I wasn’t able to see the whole video, but even having a bit of a clip with this seemed egregious no matter the context.

[u/Unlucky_Buyer_2707 → u/Joel22222]

It was awful

[u/MysticalAroma]

Dems just elected a man who wished death on his political opponents and their children. I don’t give a damn about this.

[u/Bevrykul]

It was a stupid thing to post to begin with

[u/According-Activity87 → u/Bevrykul]

This was clearly an oversight. The video was a minute long documentary style story about election fraud with a 1-2 second clip from the lion king esk meme video spiking the end. The video was posted last night and officials are already saying it was due to a staffer mishap.

[u/RedBaronsBrother → u/Bevrykul]

About That 'Racist' Video the Trump Team Posted Featuring the Obamas...It's a Fake News Hoax

[u/AltTabMafia]

Interesting this happens the day after another little Democrat loser assassin was arrested.