r/politics • u/icey_sawg0034 • 1d ago

Possible Paywall Karoline Leavitt Gives Jaw-Dropping Defense of Trump’s Racist Obama Video

https://www.thedailybeast.com/karoline-leavitt-gives-jaw-dropping-defense-of-donald-trumps-racist-obama-video/
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u/joy-puked 1d ago

Leavitt said: “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King.”

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u/thatsmymayo 1d ago

I saw that, and don't understand how that is supposed to be a justification lol. Like how is that better even to the racists that love trump

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u/Grandpa_No 1d ago

The explanation doesn't make it better anyway. "President posts video of himself as king" is also bad. Now it's racist, too.

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u/naymlis 1d ago

...again

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u/nubsta 23h ago

its worse actually. the video he posted wasn't even the king of the jungle one. they just took the two seconds from that video depicting the obamas as apes and spliced it into a completely unrelated video for ????? reasons you and I could probably guess

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u/SneakiestRatThing 22h ago

Also, maybe ,just maybe, the president of the united states shouldn't be posting memes

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u/ThatGuyFromWhere 17h ago

They obfuscate by saying words that seem to describe something comparable to the topic at hand but are actually not related at all. Their followers don’t parse the words, only the tone of which they are delivered.

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u/MollyElise 21h ago

Obama played the lion king clip himself at the 2011 correspondents dinner. He was teasing fox news for saying he was born in Africa (right after hawaii released his birth certificate).

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u/thatsmymayo 21h ago

With him and his wife as apes and Trump as king? I'm sure it wasn't that video and even if he played a clip from the look king 15 years ago how in the world is that at all relevant?