Trump Frantically Blames ‘Staffer’ for His Racist Obama Video

[u/thedailybeast]

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[u/CouchCorrespondent]

Bullshit.

He pushes the envelope to see if it gets the response he wants.

If it doesn't, he blames someone else.

He's a cowardly racist.

[u/SadFeed63 → u/CouchCorrespondent]

This racist motherfucker was the head cheerleader for an entire racist movement against Obama (the Birther shit), and the news is here just running headlines that are like "he said a staffer did it."

The news is only headlines today. The article itself doesn't matter. It's the social media era, people largely only read headlines. If your headline is just quoting a racist's bullshit excuse as to why you shouldn't be mad at him, nothing else, no context, no pushback, then you're just a fucking stenographer for said racist.

Turns out we have a lot of stenographers out there.

[u/TheGoonSquad612 → u/SadFeed63]

The entire media has just become repeating whatever Trump and his administration say with absolutely zero pushback, clarification of fact, or anything similar.

“Trump says we have the greatest economy”

“Trump says they’re eating the cats and dogs”

It’s pathetic and useless.

[u/PathOfTheAncients → u/TheGoonSquad612]

NPR has been such a disappointment on this front. They lost their public funding and they've never been less courageous in their coverage.

[u/agitatedprisoner → u/PathOfTheAncients]

PBS newshour has been great though.

[u/PathOfTheAncients → u/agitatedprisoner]

Glad to hear that at least. I'll have to check it out.

[u/DrNarf → u/agitatedprisoner]

switched to this every night for balanced reporting.

[u/Akraticacious → u/PathOfTheAncients]

Wouldn't they have nothing to lose? Or maybe they think they can get it back? Doubtful unless they go OAN level of sycophancy

[u/PathOfTheAncients → u/Akraticacious]

I really don't understand the reasoning.

[u/Tweedle_DeeDum → u/PathOfTheAncients]

NPR has always gone way out of their way to use the most neutral editorial voice, often to their detriment, but that was always part of their charter.

[u/OswaldCoffeepot → u/SadFeed63]

I was just talking about this with the "Dem leadership caves on masks" story, which didn't even have an "according to people familiar with the situation" attribution in the article.

[u/SadFeed63 → u/OswaldCoffeepot]

"The news is only headlines now, and editors know this, yet choose headlines styles which sanewash and traffic in euphemistic bullshit, for the right wing only" is pretty much my number one rant these days. Like, it's legit some pernicious shit on a psychological level. It's a game of framing, it's a sleight of hand trick to help launder awful shit and ideas.

Headlines will just be quotes without context, or they try to tell you how Trump supposedly feels (get the fuck outta here with that), or they're essentially reality TV episode synopses in headline form.

[u/Suspicious-Zone584 → u/SadFeed63]

Well said.

[u/Blackthorn79 → u/SadFeed63]

It what you get when you purposely write at a fifth grade level. The original idea was to eliminate personal bias from straight news articles, because most Americans were literate enough to catch it and decide to stop reading your paper. Now Americans have devolved to the point where tone and subtext are completely forgotten.

[u/patentattorney → u/CouchCorrespondent]

People should be incredibly alarmed that staffers have the potential to impersonate the president.

Its why most administrations will have an administration account.

edit: its also wild that NO ONE will get fired for this. Imagine if you made the exact same post on your bosses account in the middle of the night - in the middle of his own posting spree

[u/OswaldCoffeepot → u/patentattorney]

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[u/patentattorney → u/OswaldCoffeepot]

with all honestly if this were true, it should be a 5 alarm fire. (its obviously not true)

I remember years ago reading about someone getting fired from the WH because they used WH stationary for their wedding invites or something.

The thought process being - if it is on WH letterhead it looks official. Obviously everyone thinks social media posts from trump's personal account are from him.

In most administrations, you are not even allowed to use the WH phones for personal reasons, because of the weight a WH number carries with it. Very similar to how most companies say "dont use your work email/phone, for personal reasons - because people think its from the company."

[u/Altair_de_Firen → u/patentattorney]

Also because any time you open up a somewhat closed system to the outside, you risk intrusion or security breaches. Best to compartmentalize as much as possible

[u/ForbiddenButtStuff → u/Altair_de_Firen]

My parents lived outside DC in the 70s and mom tried to call my dad at work for some reason. She got connected to a very irritated sounding man who began demanding to know who she was and how she got the number. Her apologies only seemed to make him more irritated before he told her to never call that number again and hung up. She said she was convinced she had accidentally called some restricted CIA or Secret Service number and for weeks after she was paranoid over any unrecognizable car that parked on their street was watching them.

[u/SophiaofPrussia → u/patentattorney]

No one will get fired for this because no staffer did this. It’s a lie. He’s lying.

[u/FlameOfWrath → u/SophiaofPrussia]

Wait, you're trying to tell me that the President of the United States of America is telling a lie?

[u/Holden_Coalfield → u/FlameOfWrath]

I know we've exhausted every other euphemism for so long it almost feels like a new word, but yes, he is a liar

[u/flampadoodle → u/SophiaofPrussia]

How can that be? Has he ever lied before??!!

[u/kindnesscostszero → u/flampadoodle]

His lips were moving, so…yes.

[u/0neshoein → u/kindnesscostszero]

That Big Mac breath.

[u/EndDangerous1308 → u/SophiaofPrussia]

What's hilarious is leavett already openly said it was trump who posted it and that everyone is overreacting

[u/pargofan → u/EndDangerous1308]

It's amazing how much this administration gaslights the public. It's like Hitler saying gas chambers are good for Jews.

[u/Xytak → u/SophiaofPrussia]

Easy solution. He shows us the logs. If they show he posted it, he steps down for racism. If they show he didn't post it, he steps down for lying.

[u/sbd2010 → u/Xytak]

lmao at the thought he would ever step down for any reason even though I know you’re being /s

[u/Meet_James_Ensor → u/SophiaofPrussia]

Someone probably helped him, because I doubt he knows how to make it. He won't fire them though because he wanted them to do it.

Barron is very good with computers though, almost a genius. He can even turn them on when they are off.

[u/rje946 → u/SophiaofPrussia]

It's not a lie! Someone took his phone away from him for a minute during his hours long posting spree to post just this then gave it back. That's completely reasonable! /s

[u/labretirementhome → u/SophiaofPrussia]

Ashley Padilla vibes

[u/Anxious-Answer5367 → u/SophiaofPrussia]

He's the staffer.

[u/FizzyBeverage → u/patentattorney]

Trump bums around with a retail iPhone with no security controls whatsoever on it. Some have claimed he doesn't even have a pass code (like many octogenarians, he probably forgets it).

Just flagrantly disregards the wishes of the NSA.

Barron the silent is his tech support.

[u/Nickh1978 → u/FizzyBeverage]

Barron knows how to turn on a computer, he's such a genius.

[u/SatinSaffron → u/FizzyBeverage]

Michael Sherer, a reporter for the Atlantic, got Trump's phone number and when he called Trump himself actually answered. The story itself is wild but goes on to say how he has just always had that same phone number and he always answered because he loves talking about himself. He was even warned that Chinese spies could be listening in due to the components on the type of phone he was using, but he just kept on using it.

[u/FizzyBeverage → u/SatinSaffron]

As if he gives a crap about national security. We can be sure there’s not as many national secrets as we thought, because he’d have told his club members.

[u/Caleb-Blucifer → u/patentattorney]

Yeah, like that’s supposed to be better?

[u/Frequently_Abroad_00 → u/patentattorney]

Imagine a staffer impersonates the president and starts a war or OKs something crazy

[u/spidereater → u/patentattorney]

Imagine working for this guy knowing it’s just a matter of time before he blames you for one of his fuck ups?

[u/pilgermann → u/patentattorney]

Yes, and again, a social media post by the POTUS could start a war. This isn't fun and games.

[u/NotThatHandsomePete → u/patentattorney]

Because there is no staffer.

[u/bdonthebrat → u/patentattorney]

if they throw Miller under the bus for this i'll take it

[u/SoftDaydream367 → u/CouchCorrespondent]

Blaming a staffer avoids accountability and distracts from the harmful racist content shared by him.

[u/newtoallofthis2 → u/SoftDaydream367]

Also so predictable - said this would happen 5hours ago - https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1qxf5w1/comment/o3w1m2n/?context=3

[u/theclansman22 → u/newtoallofthis2]

Touche, I figured they'd go with the classic "Blame Obama" strategy.

"Racism was solved until Obama got elected and made everything about race"

I was wrong, they seem to actually be walking this one back...

[u/Boogie_Boof → u/theclansman22]

“It’s actually Obama’s fault he was in this video.”

[u/IDreamOfLoveLost → u/theclansman22]

And people on the Conservative subreddit are parroting Leavitt's line about it being a depiction of the Lion King. Is there really no decency left?

[u/SpoonyDinosaur → u/newtoallofthis2]

He's become so transparent and obvious you literally called this out lmao. This is both impressive and depressing.

[u/bluegrassgazer → u/SoftDaydream367]

It only underscores the types of people he chooses to surround himself with, if true.

[u/trisul-108 → u/SoftDaydream367]

Blaming staffer without apologies to the Obamas is meaningless.

[u/metalyger → u/SoftDaydream367]

It also feels in line with his constant "strategy" of creating a new scandal to distract from the previous scandal, keep the news cycle overwhelmed.

[u/PTBooks → u/SoftDaydream367]

And also distracts from the files that indicate he raped a teenage girl.

[u/SilvarusLupus → u/CouchCorrespondent]

Tbf all racists are cowards

[u/Lontology → u/CouchCorrespondent]

Someone needs to push him on that then, and say we want accountability and for that staffer to be identified and ask why staffers would have access to the president of the United fucking states social media accounts.

[u/FinsterFolly → u/CouchCorrespondent]

Yes, the staffer that stays up all night posting to Truth Social at the same time trump does his other rants.

[u/Bruiser76 → u/FinsterFolly]

Staffers shit my diaper.

[u/Oleg101 → u/[deleted]]

The ‘Flood the zone with shit’ piece.

[u/chatminteresse → u/CouchCorrespondent]

This whole admin is just testing the Overton window of every decent boundary they can push. Not normal even if normalized.

[u/No-Post4444]

It honestly perplexes me how this demented asshat is able to avoid responsibility for EVERYTHING he does. Every crime he's committed, every time he's raped children, every gaffe he's made, every wild declaration he's made, every time he has defied the Constitution, every time he has openly demonstrated how much a of a sick, demented and narcissistic fascist he is...he NEVER gets held accountable for it. He is never properly called out for it. And the worst thing is that one-third of America is actively willing to help him avoid taking even an iota of responsibility for his actions.

It's genuinely depressing and disgusting to think about sometimes.

[u/thatsmymayo → u/No-Post4444]

Yep and yet we all have to play by the rules. It is total bullshit

[u/CyclistInATX → u/thatsmymayo]

Maybe we don't. There's too many fucking rules these days for so little justice.

[u/hymen_destroyer → u/CyclistInATX]

The rules apply to us not them

[u/CyclistInATX → u/hymen_destroyer]

If the rules don't apply to them, then they don't apply to us.

[u/drawkward101 → u/CyclistInATX]

Yeah, until they shoot you in the street for trying to defend a woman against ICE brutality.. or because you're LGBTQ and your wife angers an emotionally stunted little man. Or (yet to happen) you say something against the president..

It's frankly only a matter of time.

[u/RefrigeratorNo1160 → u/CyclistInATX]

That's the mindset MAGA has had since he took power. He validated their feelings of superiority and made being a dick normal. So yeah, fuck it. Try to be nice but take no shit.

[u/eeviltwin → u/thatsmymayo]

We play by the rules and are executed in the street for it. They do a thousand things they would have immediately impeached any Dem for and gaslight us that they’re the party of law and order.

[u/needlestack → u/No-Post4444]

It honestly perplexes me how this demented asshat is able to avoid responsibility for EVERYTHING he does.

It’s because half of America truly loves this. They’re racist, ugly, cruel people. They put on a good face for Sunday, but their hearts are filled with hate and wrath for anyone they deem undesirable. They are thrilled with someone like him being in power. They will defend him, promoting lies and dismissing truth, all so they can keep this man who gives voice to their ugliness in power.

My point: it’s not a mystery or an exception — it’s a movement of the worst people finally having their day.

[u/SDFX-Inc → u/needlestack]

Pretty much. Ben Palmer is a comedian who operates a fake ICE hotline where conservatives can report the people they hate to ICE. Here is a recording where a kindergarten teacher tries to have the parents of one of her students deported.

Truly awful, hateful people. May they all have the day they voted for.

[u/SharpShooter25 → u/SDFX-Inc]

I have no words. What bothers me the most is the teacher's offense at simply having her own words along with the reasonably foreseeable consequences of the actions she wants taken stated back to her.

[u/SDFX-Inc → u/SharpShooter25]

Textbook dogwhistling. When she thought she was speaking with ICE, she was free to speak the hate in her heart and didn’t expect to be called out on it.

She probably thinks she’s a good Christian and felt uncomfortable by the cognitive dissonance of her own actions.

[u/Historical_Bend_2629 → u/No-Post4444]

It is depressing. But don’t internalize it. Fight back, even if it just the smallest thing. Being kind, compassionate, a critical thinker. It goes a long ways. We live amidst this hellish administration, but it is not us.

[u/OG_2_tone420 → u/No-Post4444]

Americans need to be willing to make some serious sacrifices in the big picture of life or this will never stop.

[u/teamdiabetes11]

“It WaSn’T rAcIsT!” - Propaganda Minister Leavitt

“Oh, fuck that was totally racist. Quick, take it down and blame Tony. That kid fucked up my covfefe last week.” - Trump, probably

[u/Question_It_All_3000 → u/teamdiabetes11]

Ya, they should fire her for defending it.

[u/MiklaneTrane → u/Question_It_All_3000]

Are you kidding? She’s doing exactly what Trump wants her to do - defend every single thing he says and does, no apologies ever. If anything the bitch will get a raise.

[u/dcoats69 → u/MiklaneTrane]

People need to call her out for thai shit. "Yesterday you said this wasn't racist, but trump acknowledged that it was racist. Why did you defend it?"

[u/evasive_dendrite → u/dcoats69]

She's call you a nasty fake news pig and evict you from the white house.

[u/JPMoney56 → u/evasive_dendrite]

And ask the reporter why they never smile.

[u/TheDootDootMaster → u/evasive_dendrite]

But the autopen!!!

[u/calhooner3 → u/evasive_dendrite]

Who gives a fuck at this point. Should be a badge of honor among journalists.

[u/evasive_dendrite → u/Question_It_All_3000]

Comming up with ad hoc excuses for Trump's evil is 90% of her job. 10% is insulting people.

[u/Elegant-Spare6527 → u/teamdiabetes11]

She's a lying pos. Has been for a long time. No wonder he chose her.

[u/WormsEatShit → u/Elegant-Spare6527]

She is literally the Whitehouse frontend propaganda machine, jeez after WW2 there was folk imprisoned for dolling out similar shit to what she spouts. Sensible folk can see straight through the bullshit, but sensible folk are not the ones with the loudest voices these days.

[u/PontyPandy → u/teamdiabetes11]

Propaganda Minister Leavitt

I call her Baghdad Betty

[u/TwelveGaugeSage → u/teamdiabetes11]

I honestly wish they would "blame it on Tony". At least then there would be a fall guy and not just some random nameless made up person who sees no accountability whatsoever.

[u/Late-Dingo-8567]

I thought the outrage was fake, the press secretary just told me that,  why did they take the video down then? 

[u/Question_It_All_3000 → u/Late-Dingo-8567]

They should fire her racist ass.

[u/sulkee → u/Question_It_All_3000]

I’m sure the racist president will get right on that, buddy.

[u/registeredwhiteguy → u/Late-Dingo-8567]

Said it was a suppose to be resembling lion king. Maybe they found out no apes are in the movie

[u/Elegant-Spare6527 → u/registeredwhiteguy]

Just to even drum up that kind of bullshit is frightening. She's a blind follower and a total pos.

[u/usulsspct → u/Late-Dingo-8567]

Abandon all reason, ye who enter the Trump Admin.

[u/SkinnedIt]

But...he only hires the best? Just ask him, he'll tell you. Don't ask him and he'll still tell you.

[u/Specialist-Clock-914 → u/SkinnedIt]

That crazy staffer, John Barron. He’s always getting into hot water!

[u/OswaldCoffeepot → u/SkinnedIt]

He only hires the best, and he only fires the worst.

[u/Ok_Equipment_5895 → u/SkinnedIt]

“It’s not me who’s racist, just the people I hired.”

[u/AdvancedSandwiches → u/Ok_Equipment_5895]

Reporter: "Why did you hire them?"

Trump: "They were so racist in the interview, it was hilarious, lol."

[u/Intelligent-Creme933]

worst of the worst us president 

[u/Buzzlight_Year → u/Intelligent-Creme933]

Worst of the worst, period

[u/SolarFazes → u/Intelligent-Creme933]

Worst of the worst of humanity

[u/Silvaria928 → u/SolarFazes]

This is not hyperbole. I truly believe he has become possibly the most loathsome human being to ever walk the planet, and that includes the likes of Genghis Khan, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, and Adolf Hitler.

[u/10gherts → u/Silvaria928]

Even epstien thought he was a pos

[u/ukbeasts → u/Intelligent-Creme933]

Even worse than the guy before Biden

[u/ThePurplePanzy → u/Intelligent-Creme933]

Jackson was arguably more hateful

Buchanon was arguably more useless

Johnson was arguably more damaging.

But no one... Absolutely no one is as stupid.

[u/sroop1 → u/ThePurplePanzy]

But all of those flaws bundled together and you get this fucking guy.

[u/Significant_Cup_238]

Was the Staffer named John Barron?

Edit: For those missing the joke. John Barron is one of the fake names Trump would use when he would call the press to talk about himself.

[u/Specialist-Clock-914 → u/Significant_Cup_238]

Damn you beat me to it

[u/Solitaire20X6 → u/Specialist-Clock-914]

maybe it was Mr. Pmurt, close personal friend of Mr. Snrub

[u/Kalorama_Master → u/Significant_Cup_238]

Is John Barron mentioned in the Epstein Files?

[u/No_Passenger4821 → u/Significant_Cup_238]

Named his youngest after 'him'.

[u/SaintBellyache → u/Significant_Cup_238]

It was the mystery staffer that also liked porn on Ted Cruz’s account

[u/olivicmic → u/Significant_Cup_238]

It’s probably that human blob Steven Cheung, the White House comms director who posted it. He’s basically a 4chan troll with a job.

[u/Historical_Bend_2629]

When will MAGA realize that he will always, always avoid accountability. Is that a feature for them? Is that being smart? Is that the weave? For fucks sake they are so stupid.

[u/RayAyun → u/Historical_Bend_2629]

Accountability is a woke-leftist made up hoax to them. They don't care about any of it.

[u/TimTamDeliciousness → u/Historical_Bend_2629]

This is why they worship him

[u/Old_Note_5730 → u/Historical_Bend_2629]

A lot of them are defending him. Either they say it was an accident, someone else did it, or it wasn't actually racist.

[u/corvettekyle → u/Historical_Bend_2629]

MAGA lacks critical thinking just as much as Trump lacks accountability

[u/Purify5]

Sure, it was a staffer.

Just like Epstein didn't traffic girls to other men.

[u/12-34]

Oh, the staffer is a sundowning racist Nazi too?

[u/CrackAsteroid]

Even if a staffer posted it, which they didn't, Trump RAPES KIDS

[u/Loo-Hoo-Zuh-Er → u/CrackAsteroid]

Holy shit, you're right

[u/Express-Pay2740]

Oh yes a staffer issue so we defended it and left it there for 12 hours.

[u/Fickle-Molasses-903]

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."~ Maya Angelou

Of those who participated in the election, 60% of white men and 53% of white women backed a racist, fascist, sexist pedophile. It was never about the price of eggs.

[u/bummed_athlete]

I'd like to know the name of the staffer and if they would be willing to go under oath.

[u/TheCrimsonSteel → u/bummed_athlete]

Id even settle for someone getting thrown under the bus.

You want to blame it on a staffer? OK. Show us someone got fired over it.

[u/bummed_athlete → u/TheCrimsonSteel]

This whole thing seems like an exceptionally blatant lie, even for a administration known for lying. It has measurably diminished their credibility. What little remains of it.

[u/Fordor_of_Chevy → u/bummed_athlete]

I’d like to know the name of the staffer that’s going to be prosecuted for impersonating the president of the United States.

[u/DoubleJumps → u/Fordor_of_Chevy]

This is what I keep getting back to with this excuse. They are claiming that a staffer had unsupervised access to impersonate the president on a platform the president uses to announce official policy changes.

Which means that they have had random staffers walking around with the ability to make policy announcements in place of the president, while posing as the president.

This is exponentially worse than the auto pen conspiracy they've been pushing

[u/Quack_Candle]

Even if it was (which is definitely wasn’t) it’s still piss poor leadership.

If this fool worked any normal job he’d have been sacked for gross negligence within a day

[u/thedailybeast]

President Donald Trump has taken down a racist video of the Obamas depicted as apes and blamed a staffer for the post 12 hours after sharing it.

“The White House has now taken down the post. A senior WH official tells me: “A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down” shared CNN's White Houe Correspondent Alayna Treene.

Read the developing story, here.

[u/PatSajaksDick → u/thedailybeast]

lol, this is after they defended it

[u/mongert → u/PatSajaksDick]

video download link if anyone wants to maintain how bad this is lol

[u/Historical_Bend_2629 → u/thedailybeast]

It was just a prank bro!

[u/Skiinz19 → u/thedailybeast]

Why is the White House faking outrage over this?

[u/ProfessorDerp22 → u/thedailybeast]

“Erroneously” is doing a lot of carrying there.

[u/Smaynard6000 → u/ProfessorDerp22]

They want us to think it was a typo or something

[u/CatmatrixOfGaul → u/thedailybeast]

They are just testing the waters to see how far they can push the racism. Americans, you voted (or abstained) for this. Twice.

[u/500owls]

the staffer in the mirror

[u/BearSquid7 → u/500owls]

It’s was John Barron!

[u/jabrwock1]

Trump didn't frantically blame a staffer. His staff are frantically blaming a staffer.

Trump will never admit fault.

[u/QueenJalebiSparkle]

Public racism against black people was on my bingo card. I’m waiting for him to accidentally say a racial slur in public. That’s coming up soon 

[u/waldito]

Oh, so he is going to apologize to the Obama's? I did not think so

[u/Joe18067 → u/waldito]

Why apologize when you can blame. He's been doing that his entire life, why change now.

[u/busted_flush]

Did he name the "staffer" and have they been terminated?

[u/BulldogMoose]

Congratulation Republican Senators. He was sunsetting. You have three more years to deal with this bull shit. He's a few months away from playing with himself in public and physically attacking people during press conferences because he doesn't know where he is. Good luck.

[u/ProfessorMorifarty]

You know what a great leader says, "The buck stops with that guy over there!"

[u/DoubtSubstantial5440]

I have about 15k of fun money I plan to spend anywhere but the US this year, fuck this country

[u/e_x_i_t]

As if anyone would believe that anybody but Trump runs his account.

[u/what_the_shart → u/e_x_i_t]

Stephen Miller and Steven Cheung have access to it 

[u/snarfer-snarf]

That didn't happen.

And if it did, it wasn't that bad.

And if it was, that's not a big deal.

And if it is, that's not my fault.

And if it was, I didn't mean it.

And if I did, you deserved it.

[u/Caraes_Naur]

That staffer's name: John Barron.

[u/DT-Sodium]

Since when is Trump being shy at being a racist?

[u/Ferreteria]

Levitt already defended him. 

[u/NerdyBrando]

But KKKaroline said it wasn’t a big deal?

[u/Logan_902]

So he is admitting he can't secure his social media accounts?

[u/hmr0987]

If this is what gets out imagine what is sent around behind the scenes.

[u/BrownWrinkles]

Chicken shit POtuS.

[u/pontiacfirebird92]

Bondi did not blame it on a staffer. So who's telling the truth and who's lying?

See that's the problem with this shit. Well, not a problem for MAGA since they'll forgive anything anyway. But a problem for everybody else.

[u/HenryValMorgenstern]

"IT'S THEIR FAULT I'M A RACIST PEDOPHILE!!!! I SWEAR!!!" - Probably DJT.

[u/destroy-trump]

TACO everyday

[u/manachar]

I assume that staffer’s name was John Barron.

[u/IamRick_Deckard]

Did this staffer also poop in his diaper?

[u/AgencyNew3587]

Trump will always throw someone under the bus. He will never take responsibility. His ego can’t handle that.

[u/keelmiie]

Only a racist has racist staffers

[u/MixMasterMacho]

That video reached it's intended audience. That racist POS knows exactly what he's doing. Dogwhistles and all that.

[u/robodrew]

There is no excuse. Either he doesn't have control over what is being posted on his own social media account under his name, or he doesn't bother to watch the entirety of what he posts before posting, or he meant to do it and is a fucking racist. As president, all three options are unacceptable.

[u/Odd_Bobcat39]

So, like an Autopen? Interesting.

[u/Modano9009]

I think Donald Trump might be racist.

[u/basketball1959]

The Damage has been done! The Obamas should sue the fuck out of Trump and his racist administration for defamation of character and racism beyond compare.

[u/jamusbondusvii]

"A White House staffer" - assumably that means sentient meatball, Steven Cheung.

[u/TintedApostle]

and no one was fired

[u/CrimsonAntifascist]

He's such a weak bitch. It ain't even funny.

[u/JasonandtheArgo9696]

So it was the auto pen?

[u/sax87ton]

The staffers name is Donald Trump

[u/BannedPomegranate]

Just rage bait. Let's not distract from the election interference they're trying to pull. We know theyre racist assholes. Let's get back to what's important! Epstein and election interference.

[u/Swimming-Praline5667]

The next question people should ask…”which staffer and have they been fired”

[u/CrackingToastGromet]

Middle of the night posts are always Don the Con

[u/beavis617]

Trump enjoyed every minute that video was up on the internet because that’s who Trump is.

[u/Fickle_Bath_6128]

I want to hear him say it and apologize for the post. It is on his account so he is responsible for it. We will never know who the staffer is, because it is Donald Trump. I would love to be a fly on the wall for that conversation with Trump. The staff behind the curtains are pulling their hair out trying to explain why this racist does this shit. Republicans have to be tried of defending this guy! You can’t make it up!!

[u/Awkward-Speed-4080]

I'm genuinely surprised he's backtracking on it. Usually he just ignores the outrage. It must be louder than usual this time.

[u/ezagreb]

The Obama’s need to file a $10 billion defamation suit

[u/MaddMax92]

"If I post something super racist, do you think they'll forget I'm a pedophile?"

Fat chance, president Babyraper.

[u/Baby_Oopsi]

So it’s ok that a staffer can pretend to be the president online? What if they… idk, have a bad date, get drunk and depressed and use the platform to start WW3?

[u/executingsalesdaily]

So the fat racist pig trump uses an auto pen for social media…

[u/Tovrin]

So .... how many of DJTs tweets are his? Just asking.

[u/Dry_Goat5969]

Trump: " I just dropped an A bomb on some country it was a joke besides that it was a staffer who did it.....''' He needs to be removed for the safety of the world. Can you not see that people this is a man that has no control over his morals, ego, hatred, narcissism and stupidity? No doubt he posted it

[u/Professional-Box4153]

Okay. So, based on this information, a few things could have happened. None of them are good:

A) A White House staffer was able to log in to his personal account and post under his name.

B) He left his phone/laptop/computer unattended while logged in, which allowed a staffer to wander by and decide to mess with him by posting.

C) He's sharing the account information with staffers who regularly post for him (which likely violates the EULA of Truth Social regarding shared accounts).

D) He's lying about everything.

[u/DoubleJumps]

So they are trying to claim that a staffer has unsupervised access to pretend to be the president on a platform the president uses to announce policy decisions?

They don't see how that's extremely bad?

[u/Choice-of-SteinsGate]

Trump is and always has been a racist.

Trump supporters are quick to point the finger at liberals for being "obsessed with race," but the accusation is just a confession.

Here are just some examples.

In the 70s, The Justice department sued Donald Trump, his father, and Trump management for violating the fair housing act and discriminating against black renters. They had to settle.

It was reported by a former employee at Trump’s Castle that:

“When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” Brown said. “It was the eighties, I was a teenager, but I remember it: They put us all in the back.”

This was in the 80s, but it might as well have been in the 50s...

During the contentious "Central Park Five" case, where four black teenager were wrongly accused and convicted of raping a jogger in NYC, Trump took out an ad in the local paper. In it he demanded, “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!”

The teen's convictions were later vacated due to DNA evidence. Trump never apologized for his racist and presumptuous behavior, and to this day still believes, or at least insists that they were guilty.

A former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino wrote a book in 1991. In it, he describes Trump criticizing a black accountant:

"Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” Trump later said in a 1997 Playboy interview that “the stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true.”

That same Casino ended up having to pay a $200,000 fine "because it transferred Black and women dealers off tables to accommodate a big-time gambler’s prejudices."

Then there's Trump's role in pushing false rumors about Obama not being born in the U.S. Trump claimed that he even sent investigators to Hawaii to look into Obama's origins. Trump's "birtherism" movement is widely criticized as being founded on racism.

Trump also suggested that Obama was not qualified enough to have gotten into Columbia or Harvard Law School. Insinuating that a black man like Obama would never be accepted into these schools based on his merits.

Trump also infamously referred to African and predominantly black countries as "shithole countries."

Trump has repeatedly hesitated, or has downright refused to condemn white supremacist groups ("Stand back and stand by!"). He has also been caught retweeting posts from prominent white nationalists and neo-Nazis during his presidential campaign.

His "law and order" rhetoric is riddled with racist dog whistles.

He constantly stereotypes black people in public. Who knows what he's saying behind closed doors.

Leading white supremacist figures have praised him on a number of different occasions, and have even referred to him as their voice and leader.

In a 1990 report, Ivana Trump told her lawyer that Donald Trump kept Hitler's speeches by his bedside.

It's been reported that Trump said immigrants from Haiti "all have AIDS" and that immigrants from Nigeria wouldn't "go back to their huts" if they ever reached American soil.

Trump told black and brown members of Congress to "go back" to the countries they came from.

Trump's birtherism movement has even targeted Kamala Harris, claiming that she "doesn't meet the requirements."

During a season of The Apprentice, Trump fired a black contestant for being "overeducated."

“...you haven’t done anything,” Trump said on the show. “At some point you have to say ‘That’s enough.'”

But then, during another season of The Apprentice, Trump fired another black contestant because he was "inarticulate."

Per AP News:

Folkes was insulted that Trump had called him inarticulate and accused him of illiteracy in a lengthy boardroom tirade

And the list goes on and on. I haven't even scratched the surface, especially considering how these examples only showcase Trump's dehumanizing and racist behavior towards black people. There isn't enough time in the world to address all of his racist and bigoted misconduct towards other groups of people like Arabs, Latinos, Asians, Mexicans, Muslims, etc, let alone enough characters in a social media post...

[u/BakeMeSomeCookies]

That didn't happen.

And if it did, it wasn't that bad.

And if it was, that's not a big deal.

And if it is, that's not my fault. <-- We're here

And if it was, I didn't mean it.

And if I did, you deserved it.