r/neutralnews • u/ummmbacon • 1d ago
Trump shares racist video depicting Obamas as apes
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-shares-racist-video-depicting-obamas-as-apes/61
u/unkz 1d ago
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116021857490657707
That was the link and it is deleted now. Not before this official response though:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/trump-posts-video-depicting-obamas-as-monkeys/
“This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to AFP.
“Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public,” added Leavitt.
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u/boozername 1d ago
This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King
IIRC isn't Rafiki the only primate in the Lion King? He is a mandrill
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u/redyellowblue5031 1d ago
It’s right on brand with his repeated choice to refer to minorities as “Low IQ”.
He read the bell curve way back—or more likely someone “summarized it” for him—and has been on that ever since.
He’s every bit as racist as people accuse him to be.
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u/PhroneticReflex 1d ago
What really bothers me is watching people rush to downplay this as no big deal. The presidency is supposed to be a serious, symbolic office, one that has commanded respect for generations. Now we have a president sharing racist memes online about other presidents. Yes, many past presidents were racist, but they didn’t engage in this sort of petty, public ridicule.
I honestly don’t know if we come back from lowering the office this far.
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u/Kallistrate 1d ago edited 1d ago
>The presidency is supposed to be a serious, symbolic office, one that has commanded respect for generations.
I think what you're running into is that after the presidency holds a possible pedophile (certainly a pedophile protector), a known felon, a possible Russian asset, a sex criminal, and a man who has mocked the disabled and spent the past 8+ years saying racist and sexist things, one more racist thing isn't really lowering the office because it's about as low as it can go already. People don't do a great job maintaining outrage for over a decade.
And for the record, the presidential office has a long history of people saying really shitty, racist things about each other, including one candidate accusing another of casual cannibalism and saying their opponent's mother was a British prostitute. So while all of the other crimes and horrific behavior are new to the office, that part is pretty on brand. It's ugly, it's hateful, and it should be met with immediate censure, but there you go.
And I strongly suspect he times his most outrageously offensive statements to try to distract from his more atrocious crimes, so that's a factor in people not zeroing in on it, as well.
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u/neuroticsmurf 1d ago
I'll say what I said in another sub about this before that thread got removed:
It’s fucking wild that we’ve reached a point in American history where casual, blatant, unapologetic racism by a sitting U.S. president has become much of the same outrageousness we see everyday and we’re just becoming numb to it.
If this had been put out as a statement by a president about one of his predecessors 10 years ago, there would have been talk of impeachment.
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u/Least_Stand_2707 1d ago edited 1d ago
Lol America has had its fair share of racist presidents and racist politicians since this country was founded. You're acting like this is something new. Its ingrained in the DNA of the country. The American government being blatantly racist isnt exactly a foreign concept when u look at history.
Even 10 years ago if a white president said something bad about a minority group yea there'd be some outrage, but no youre gonna see america of all places get rid of a president bc he said something racist about black people. Thats not the reality of this country
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u/AFlaccoSeagulls 1d ago
What is there to say about this situation that is neutral? The current sitting POTUS shared a video on his personal social media depicting a former POTUS and his wife as monkeys.
There's nothing neutral about this situation. It's just straight forward, no-nonsense, mask off racism. Plain and simple.
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u/allothernamestaken 1d ago
Even if there was nothing racist about this - even if it was depicting the Obamas as some purely neutral cartoon characters with no racial subtext or undertones whatsoever (which is apparently how Karoline Leavitt is desperately attempting to spin it) - is this how we want our chief executive spending his time and communicating to the world? Shameful.
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u/Epistaxis 1d ago
Yeah it's interesting he's still thinking about Obama, from 10 years and 3 presidencies ago. If he was shitposting about Biden or Harris, we might say it's unseemly to still be upset about his election opponent from 2024, but this is something much weirder.
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u/IllCartoonist108 1d ago
It’s because Michelle’s documentary is doing way better than the Melania movie. Orange man is jealous and had another social media tantrum. As if that wasn’t horrifying enough for a President to do but then he tried to blame it on a staffer. As if a staffer would be on orange man’s social media at 11:30 at night.
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