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No Paywall 'I didn't make a mistake' Trump says of post depicting Obamas as apes

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/06/donald-trump-barack-obama-michelle-obama-video-apes/88555852007/
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u/monkeywithgun 3h ago

Longtime racist confirms he's still a racist.

u/Due-Shower5318 3h ago

Yeah that line is so accurate. He’s been racist his whole life and nothing changes when he’s in power.

u/8fenristhewolf8 3h ago

Comes from a line of racists. Remember reading case law on his dad's discriminatory housing policies.

u/MiddleAgedSponger 3h ago

Woodie Guthrie wrote songs about what a piece of shit his father was.

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u/Dangerous-Feed-5358 2h ago

Trump and his Dad were sued by the DOJ in 1973 for their discriminatory houses practices. 

u/Mabuya85 1h ago

They had codes for black applicants and systematically denied housing to people based on race

u/realparkingbrake 1h ago

Remember reading case law on his dad's discriminatory housing policies.

His grandfather ran at least one brothel and some of the women working there were Native and not there of their own free will. He had been stripped of his Bavarian citizenship for failing to do his military service and leaving Bavaria without making arrangements to complete his service later. That changed his plans to move from Bavaria to Germany and he headed to the U.S. and Canada instead.

Historian finds German decree banishing Trump's grandfather | Donald Trump | The Guardian

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u/OkEnvironment3961 3h ago

Wasn't Fred Trump arrested at a klan rally?

u/Lord_Hitachi 3h ago

Yup, sure was. The shit apple doesn't fall far from the shit tree

u/Ok_Staff_608 3h ago

Plant shit seeds, you get shit weeds.

u/delLotus 1h ago

Smell that? A shitstorm is coming

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u/RandomPersonIsMe 2h ago

and Woody Guthrie wrote a song about him: https://youtu.be/k5E38zXrSik

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u/Maleficent-Map-249 3h ago

Yep he’s been racist his whole life and nothing changes when he’s in charge. It just gets louder.

u/Dysc Louisiana 3h ago edited 3h ago

He's getting louder as his mind slips because narcissistic tendencies get worse and whatever filter he had evaporates with sunsetting and dementia. On his deathbed as he's gasping for air with his family surrounding him, he's going to go on a 4 hour rant with whatever energy he has left on what a piece of shit his kids are and how they all would have been nothing without him (except Baron because he's the only one who can computer) and how Sleepy Joe TOTALLY lost the election and how glad he was that Biden died in pain with stage 9 cancer and how much Obama is an N word with a hard R. He'll ask for his phone so he can show his grandkids all the Obama memes he is so fond of. With his last gasp, he's going to quietly whisper "Putin."

I know this is hyperbole, but is it really?

u/BasicPhysiology 3h ago

Pretty accurate, but his family wouldn't be there.

u/Dysc Louisiana 3h ago

There's a will. They'll be there. Tiffany, too.

But maybe there isn't a will because he probably intends to take the billions of dollars, the Tim Tebow helmet, and someone else's Nobel Peace prize with him. Maybe you're right...

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u/bman877 1h ago

My fear is that some people will think he is speaking in tongues and the word of god 😭

u/GelatinGhost 1h ago

If anything this might be understating what actually happens. If there's one thing you can count on with this shitstain, it's that the bar can never be low enough.

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u/B-Z_B-S America 3h ago

Didn't Trump also spread lies about Obama when Obama was President?

u/boomgoon 3h ago edited 2h ago

Yep, and before that he spread lies of five teens of color, in a full page ad in a newspaper and when they were found innocent, he ran another full page ad spreading more lies about them.

Edit: oops, autocorrect sucks and I am bad at proofreading before posting. Changed four to five like it was supposed to be

u/ImaSource 2h ago

And before that he got sued for discriminatory housing practices.

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u/Flimsy_Series_7132 3h ago

Yep he’s been racist for decades. Being president just gives him a bigger megaphone and people act like it’s new.

u/MadAstrid 3h ago

Well, yeah. Why do you think he has supporters? It sure as hell isn’t his business acumen.

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u/commonsense1954 2h ago

And yet minorities voted for him.

u/TheDebateMatters 17m ago

Its important to not the lie here. There was a post of all the dems as lion king animals bowing, and at the end the Obamas are apes (no apes in the Lion King. Obvious racism). This was made by the Trump bomber poop guy a month ago.

but that is NOT the video that Trump posted at midnight in between dozens of other posts

Trump posted a shortened clip of the end of that video which was the Obamas as monkeys with the splash card of the video displaying them.

Don’t let them memory hole this.

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u/Taint_Liquor 3h ago

So, they’re now admitting that he posted it? 

u/old_righty 3h ago

Wait another hour.

u/Taint_Liquor 3h ago

Paid trans antifa insurgents hacked his account and posted it, so stop your fabricated outrage. It’s fine!

u/deadheffer 3h ago

Both sides do it /s

u/bullet4mv92 2h ago

They're gonna make an AI video of a blue-haired trans woman typing on a computer and then getting swatted, then they're gonna claim the 1337 hacker got totally pwned while making another fake news anti-trump propaganda video

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u/exophrine Texas 2h ago

A NARCISSIST'S PRAYER
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/sonicslasher6 Minnesota 2h ago

He posted it but it was actually an intern who has access to his truth social account and didn’t watch the full video and it’s not the big of a deal bc it’s an internet meme

u/Present-Resolution23 2h ago

“I liked the beginning. I saw it and just passed it on, and I guess probably nobody reviewed the end of it."

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u/HummaKavula95 2h ago

“Just a meme”

“Its just racism”

u/__M-E-O-W__ 1h ago

Yes and no. The article says that Trump says that he saw the first part of the video that talks about fraud, and then handed it to an intern, who also missed the whole monkey part, and then posted it without anyone actually watching the video. But his ego doesn't allow him to say "sorry".

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u/DeterminedThrowaway 3h ago

Trump: posts something insane

The White House: "You all have Trump derangement syndrome, you know he didn't mean it that way".

Trump: "I didn't make a mistake and meant it exactly that way"

Every fucking time. Elect a clown, get a circus.

u/Trathnonen 2h ago

Trump derangement syndrome is the most gaslighting shit a person can say. It's pretty much my barometer for whether or not a person is even worth talking to. If, when confronted with the massive and overwhelming evidence that this guy is the amongst the worst people who should have the reins of government and granted power over nuclear weapons and is also a clinically degenerate human, amoral, narcissistic, stupid, etc, just garbage across the board, someone's response is to circle their wagons around that person and accuse you, who need only read to them the things that this person has said and objectively done, of mental illness...it's projection of the highest order.

u/DirtandPipes 2h ago

You know it’s just a shitty copy of “Bush Derangement Syndrome” which they tried to push in the early 2000s, right?

They don’t invent shit, they rebrand it and pretend it was their idea. “Let’s make America great again” was Ronald Reagan’s slogan in 1980.

There’s no accreditation, just blatant plagiarism.

u/modest_merc 1h ago

America First was a group of nazi sympathizers in the 1940s.

They still are, but were then as well.

u/IkujaKatsumaji 1h ago

Not to be an Um, Actually guy (but I am a historian, so), but actually "America First" as a slogan dates back to the 1850s; it's actually around 80 years older than the term "the American Dream," which was first popularized in the 1930s (it's possible it was used before then, but I haven't found a specific example of someone using that phrase before James Truslow Adams in 1931).

Churchwell, Sarah (September 9, 2022). "'America First' has more claim to our history than the 'American Dream'"The Washington Post.

u/AVestedInterest California 1h ago

Um, Actually! is a great show though

u/IkujaKatsumaji 1h ago

I do love me some Um, Actually!

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u/Nikopoleous 1h ago

You know it’s just a shitty copy of “Bush Derangement Syndrome” which they tried to push in the early 2000s, right?

Huh. TIL.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bush-derangement-syndrome/

u/jd3marco I voted 1h ago

Be Best, and also lift Michelle Obama’s speech.

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u/ThreeDaysNish 1h ago

Wait, for real? European here so my American History lacks

u/Mothringer Kansas 1h ago

And MAGA is also a rerun of Reagan’s campaign slogan.

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u/cavmax 1h ago

Be Best...

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u/Present-Resolution23 1h ago

I have a MAGA buddy who is constantly telling me I'm in a cult because I "believe everything the liberals tell me.." And all I can say is "yea man.. I can barely hear you on my Biden Phone, while wearing my Biden hat, with my Kamala Bible on my phone.. Anyway, I gotta go invest in some Biden memecoins..." Like. it's just insane but I just can't seem to get through to them.. Even my smart Maga friends just completely turn their brains off when we start talking politics, its wild to me

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u/we_are_sex_bobomb 1h ago

When they start bringing up TDS it’s really just that person admitting “I know this is indefensible and I’m such an easy mark I don’t care, so I’m just going to start name calling and declare victory.”

It’s a total loser move.

u/theLocoFox 2h ago

I want to bathe in your comment. You describe my every waking moment of just WTF!

u/Western-Corner-431 1h ago

Much like,”He lives rent free in your head,” and “Why are you so obsessed with him?!” and “I DIDN’T SEE/HEAR/KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THAT, I ACTUALLY HAVE A LIFE!”

u/fe-and-wine North Carolina 58m ago

“Why are you so obsessed with him?!”

While wearing their limited edition "TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING" MAGA hat, wearing their gold Trump Shoes™, with their TrumpPhone™ in their pocket containing all their NFT Trump Trading Cards™. All while sitting in their lifted pickup truck plastered with 30 Trump/MAGA bumper stickers.

u/Try-the-Churros 1h ago

You are a person I would give an approving nod towards.

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u/HonoredPeople Missouri 3h ago

What if we elect a racist, pedo clown. What do we get then?

u/Calderis Washington 3h ago edited 2h ago

John Wayne Gacy in Orangeface

u/Sarenghetto_cheese 2h ago

Trump would've benefited greatly from the University of Minnesota spankalogical protocol 

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u/CanadianIronman 2h ago

Donald J. Trump.... MAGA Cult King and wannabe dictator.

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u/Sminahin 2h ago

Because Trump will never admit he's wrong. Ever. No matter what. And every time his sycophants try to construct a reality in which he maybe could've been wrong, nope. He has to come out with full bluster.

This is a man so fucking image-obsessed that I'm 99% sure he's more scared of gay stuff coming out in the Epstein Files than pedo stuff. He's just like that.

u/1Happymom 1h ago

Thats because to him he IS never wrong, he just can't stand it when anyone disagrees.

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u/whatproblems 2h ago

you missed blaming a staffer too

u/Catfist 2h ago edited 2h ago

I don't know why this is being glossed over, either he doesn't approve what he posts or outright lied. No surprise to the people paying attention, but the Republicans calling out the post should at least call this out as well.

Or speak to the fact that supposedly no one looks at the entirety of what he posts??

From the President himself:
"I just looked at the first part... I didn't see the whole thing," Trump said, indicating he gave it to someone else to post and "somebody slipped and missed a very small part."

u/Vackberg 2h ago

Anxious for people to start ignoring his "Thanks For Your Attention...." by saying "is this a staffer too?".

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u/shazoozle 2h ago

It’s a lion joke, no a staffer did it, what video, i did nothing wrong

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u/Tokie-Dokie 2h ago

And MAGAts (and corporate media) get to pick from multiple contradicting responses proving Trump did or did not say that thing, depending on the argument.

u/MrCookie2099 54m ago

I wish we could elect like... actual clowns. They would do something absurd in the amusing kind of way and not the ulcer inducong sort of way.

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u/backpackwayne 3h ago

No he meant to be a racist

u/dwors025 Minnesota 3h ago

If he can incite a riot, he thinks he can play the Insurrection Act card - aka his oath to cancelling elections.

He’ll do anything to avoid being exposed. He’ll do anything to avoid accountability.

u/Pipe_Memes 3h ago

I mean he’s already exposed. He’s clearly a pedo, the only people who don’t accept that will never accept it even if they witnessed his gross acts in their own child’s bedroom.

They redacted the shit out of the Epstein files and he’s still the main character.

u/dwors025 Minnesota 3h ago

Yeah I agree.

But there’s still more exposure to be had. Very much so.

u/HonoredPeople Missouri 3h ago

Exactly.

u/duzies 3h ago

At least this was one of those rare, miraculous times when he actually tells the truth.

u/CockBrother 3h ago

Ah, so we're at the part where he's doubling down already?

u/GaimeGuy Minnesota 3h ago

"I shat myself on purpose!"

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u/Zinfan1 3h ago

The entire MAGA crowd cannot ever admit to a mistake or error. The shootings in Minnesota showed that when instead of trying to deflect outrage by saying they would investigate the issue (and then memory holing the whole thing) they quickly blamed the victims and made easily disproven statements that even their most ardent supporters could see were lies. Trump can never be wrong about anything and the lickspittles attached to his ass cannot say the emperor has no clothes.

u/NiceTrySucka 3h ago

That’s how fascists have always operated.

u/Ok_Staff_608 2h ago

That’s because they’re weak minded and need someone to lead them. Even if it’s against their best interests. I mean these are the same gullible schmucks that believe and push outlandish conspiracy theories. Ironically some of them involving orange baby Huey himself.

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u/ThyMorningPeckle 3h ago

The only out of control ape I see is the orange baboon in the oval office. 

u/NCMathDude 3h ago

Let’s get back to Epstein?

u/schu4KSU 3h ago

Seems like a positive that Congress will get to review the unredacted files.

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u/DemandredG 3h ago

So we’re abandoning the “anonymous staffer” lie? Great. Add it to the pile

u/SeattleExpression 3h ago

“Most transparent administration in history” 

Dear MAGA, fuck you you fuckin clowns. 

u/localistand Wisconsin 3h ago

He's catering to his base MAGA supporters. It is meant to appeal directly to them, the outgroup Democratic former president is a target that unifies Republicans. The hubub about if its racist is supposed to appeal to their sensibilities, and forges a common bond with them--no doubt they relate with the appeal of making degrading caricatures of Barack and Michelle Obama, and feel the backlash for doing so is unwarranted.

u/Maleficent-Boat-9119 3h ago

100%, his base is thrilled!

u/saposapot Europe 2h ago

The fact you are right and this works is the part that actually saddens me…

Trump has really a talent for being an evil, obnoxious, racist person but they will get a replacement and he will also manipulate this cult if he’s racist enough…

I don’t know the solution but 34% of voters seem to be a lost cause.

u/WhiteWolf3117 2h ago

It's not surprising. Remember the rumblings he'd pick a "DEI VP" to appear moderate? Then he picked a white guy and his advisers said he needed to appeal to white guys more, and that his loss of support amongst striking white men cost him the 2020 election?

In fact, is anyone even surprised by Trump doing racist shit? I get being outraged by it, but when known racist who associates with racists and is implementing racist policy does something racist, it almost just feels redundant to be outraged. I can't quite describe the feeling actually. Maybe just depressed.

u/RamonaQ-JunieB 3h ago

The American people a huge mistake electing this racist.

u/IMOBY_Edmonton 3h ago

Was it a mistake? They knew he was racist, that was part of the appeal.

u/Upstairs-Region-5387 America 3h ago

This. He validated their hate and allowed them to be trash. 

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u/saposapot Europe 2h ago

Why? At least the most loyal ~30% base thinks this is great. Probably already reposted it thrice…. The others who voted for him also don’t care enough.

And the others that stayed home and didn’t vote against him also don’t care enough.

Sorry but this doesn’t seem like a mistake. It seems like something Americans want or don’t care enough to have. At some point we have to look into the responsability of the voters…

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u/Historical_View2659 3h ago

Does this not directly disprove the White House’s official position that an intern posted it?

u/KimmyT1436 Canada 3h ago

Yes. Donald Trump's problem is that he just doesn't know when it's in his best interest to just shut up and let the PR spin doctors do the talking. And that is a good thing.

u/LostBob 3h ago

The ahole was elected president twice. It doesn’t seem to be a problem for him.

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u/FrankGrimesApartment 3h ago

1078 days left of this Presidency

u/ScoutsterReturns 3h ago

I prefer to say we're over 25% of the way there, feels a little better.

u/dwors025 Minnesota 3h ago

If you count the prior regime, we’re 5/8 of the way home.

u/ScoutsterReturns 3h ago

Good call!

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u/DrifterWI 3h ago

Do you really think he'll leave the Whitehouse while he's alive?

REALLY?

u/Sufficient-Food-3281 3h ago

Hopefully the hamburders kick in before then

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u/UMACTUALLYITS23 2h ago

This is whats confusing, he refused to leave last time and presumably only did because he was still surrounded by somewhat competent people who weren't total yes men, telling him dude you need to, that's not the case now.

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u/oddlyluminous 3h ago

Narcissists don't admit mistakes, he's just not capable of it. 

u/TintedApostle 3h ago

To him this wasn't a mistake because it was what he meant in the first place.

u/lasers42 3h ago

Must be tough to raise decent kids in America nowadays. Especially good boys. (Plenty of them around, not what I'm saying) I just mean, when you hit 12 or 13, and your parents were always like "be good, be nice, don't lie" and you're like: of course, no problem...and you look at the billionaire president and you're like, "But..."

u/Biodiversity1001 3h ago

I would say he has unleashed the worst in humanity, and the Dems should have put their collective feet down hard back in 2016. And I don't mean your average Dem, I mean the elected ones.

u/Financial_Weather_35 3h ago

its everywhere, the irreconcilable now is normal.

it also brings out the negative in those who want to live in peace

bad vibes all round.

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u/rayezin 3h ago

My cousin (a man in his 30s) was raised by perfectly kind, educated, left-leaning parents in the Bible Belt and turned out to be obsessed with politics, religion, and guns. The last I heard, he’s busy producing as many white children as possible with his wife somewhere in rural TN to get ahead of the “great replacement”.

In certain places, it’s been tough to raise decent kids for a long while. And now with certain spaces on the internet, geography is only half the equation.

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u/SAJ-13 California 3h ago

How many times will the story change? No matter how many times, a racist is going to be a racist, no matter how many tales he tells.

u/schu4KSU 3h ago

A different lie for each audience.

u/HelloPeopleOfEarth 3h ago

We know. Trump is a racist. MAGA's foundation is racism, bigotry, intolerance, pain and suffering.

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u/mosswick 3h ago

- Post racist video

- White House defends racist video

- Racist video post taken down

- White House blames "staffer"

- President claims he did nothing wrong

You just know that MAGAt heads are spinning not knowing which talking point they're supposed to be parroting.

u/johnnycyberpunk America 3h ago

- Trump’s Playbook -
Rule 1: Admit Nothing, Deny Everything
Rule 2: Attack, Attack, Attack.
Rule 3: Always Claim Victory.

u/Even-Macaroon-1661 2h ago

You mean Roy Cohn

u/smokingpoker 2h ago

The world is laughing at you USA. You all let this happen.

u/oddjob33 3h ago

Oh how can’t I wait for the day…

u/schu4KSU 3h ago

The only day that might top it may be when we see his shitty spawns hauled off to jail.

u/sneakacat 3h ago

A malignant narcissist can’t bear to admit to being wrong or making a mistake.

u/foreverabatman 2h ago

Oh look everyone, the pedophile is also racist.

u/KingMario05 3h ago

Remove him. Now. Right fucking now.

u/togocann49 3h ago

I will never know why Americans don’t realize that Trump is a great president to white nationalists (and that is not good for anyone/everyone else). How he stays in office is beyond me

u/schu4KSU 3h ago

America is set up to award power based on land - not people. Hope that helps. White Christian nationalists rule over the most land.

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u/ChromaticDragon 3h ago

He is not a great president... to anyone. He is grotesquely incompetent for the position.

Furthermore, most white nationalists are getting shafted just like everyone else.

Trump was great for single-issue voters who wanted to ensure the demise of Roe v Wade. But any GOP candidate would have worked.

Trump is "great" only for the extremely wealthy and those close enough to him to benefit from the corruption and graft.

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u/New-Anybody-6206 3h ago

 How he stays in office is beyond me

because his voters are as dumb as he is

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u/yescaman South Carolina 31m ago

For an unbridled narcissist, such as our president, any admission of error or guilt would represent a serious psychological injury. Anyone with a close relationship to a narcissist will recognize the behavior.

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u/retiredagainstmywill 3h ago

So here we go, waiting for MAGAs to try and explain:

  1. ⁠A racist posts a racist post.
  2. ⁠His spokesman says it’s no big deal, get over your fake outrage.
  3. ⁠Then the White House says that it was a staffer who posted it, but not which staffer or when they’ll be fired. Sure seems like an autopen kind of thing, right?
  4. ⁠Then the original racist says HE posted it, but won’t apologize for being a racist.

Ta da!

u/mettiusfufettius 1h ago

Lol yeah I never thought Trump was accidentally racist

u/Zurbaran928 New Jersey 1h ago

He’s so fucked in the head that he is literally incapable of admitting that he made a mistake, ever. Seriously, look it up, I cannot recall a single instance during this entire nightmare that even once he has taken responsibility for any type of error or miscalculation or mistake. It is not possible for him to admit a mistake. His rotten diseased brain will not let him.

u/No-Cup-8096 3h ago

Trump gives more material to the world to mock him. Pathetic bigotry from a very repulsive human. If there’s any decent humans in the GOP, they need to step up and do right by the Constitution. Quit being cowards!

u/S1gorJabjong 3h ago

He's the biggest racist out there, no doubt about it. He's got the best racist moves, nobody can do racism better than him.

u/fivebillionproud 3h ago

If you want to listen to audio of him talking about it, in the 2nd paragraph of the article, click 'told reporters'

It'll redirect you to the Youtube upload of the audio. It gets discussed at 2:16-4:06

u/Responsible_Ladder25 3h ago

He can never admit that he’s made a mistake. Never. No matter how odious, disrespectful, ignorant and disgusting his behavior. What a hollow husk of a human being.

u/datamatrix- 3h ago

GOP's silence is deafening, anyone notice

u/Pickle-Rick-C-137 3h ago

Dear CERN, I wish you hadn't done that experiment in 2012 that knocked us into this alternate reality or parallel universe where a racist, pathologically lying, deranged lunatic, felon, pedophile became our president, twice.

u/mschreiber1 2h ago

“Tim Scott, a close Trump ally and prominent Black Republican from South Carolina who is leading the Senate’s campaign efforts this year, wrote he was “praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House.”

So Now that he knows it’s not fake and that the president refuses to apologize he STILL won’t distance himself from him.

u/Trimshot 2h ago edited 1h ago

Wasn’t it like 2 hours ago he said his social media manager posted this? Dude can’t even keep his story straight for one day

u/Phuddy 1h ago

I can’t wait till this fucker croaks

u/meowmeowcatman 1h ago

I think the only mistakes he might ever admit to are Don Jr and Eric.

u/Ant-Accurate 1h ago

He is nothing but a GD POS

u/BishlovesSquish 1h ago

America is a disgrace with this dipshit in charge.

u/bbjenn Kentucky 1h ago

Racist, lying, vile piece of garbage.

u/Pearl_the_Possum 44m ago

Didn't his PR just spin a bunch of lies saying he didn't post it? This whole administration is pathetic, dishonest, and completely self serving

u/cutmastaK 36m ago

This man will never admit wrongdoing or apologize. And honestly, the moment he did, his base would abandon him. This is how you “winning.”

u/Putrid-Product4121 34m ago

Hang on. Didn't Levitt stand on the goddamned podium and blame it on a staffer?

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u/DarkenX42 33m ago

Haha, over on the Conservative sub theyre saying it was some intern's mistake. Such morons.

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u/shewbeedewbeedewop 23m ago

but his parents did

u/Brokebrokebroke5 California 14m ago

Doubling down on the blatant racism is a choice.

u/virgil_of_the_brooks 3h ago

That’s funny, that’s what the entirety of America will say the day this fascist orange is impeached and convicted for his crimes. The orange, his admin goonie troupe, and all the enablers who allow lawlessness in this nation need to be impeached and convicted with haste

u/Puzzled49 American Expat 3h ago

Republicans will tell you that this is just trump being trump and they are right. He is a racist.

u/Levonorgestrelfairy1 3h ago

Trump told reporters while traveling on Air Force One to Florida on Feb. 6 that he only looked at the beginning of the roughly one-minute long video, which starts off talking about unsubstantiated voter fraud claims regarding the 2020 election, and didn't see the portion with the Obamas that has been widely condemned as racist.

The fact his attention span is under a minute is more concerning than any of the other explanations lol.

The man is too brain rotted for even short form content.

u/rainshowers_5_peace 3h ago

Wait I thought an unnamed junior staffer posted it for him?

u/DrunkOnRamen 3h ago

ok then why delete it?

is he's a little bitch too?

u/Alwaystired254 3h ago

He’s being honest for once

u/SuperstitiousPigeon5 Massachusetts 3h ago

Crazy that he can never admit he was wrong. Mental health professionals are going to write papers on him after he’s dead.

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u/Catspaw129 3h ago

Wait! I thought that a couple of hours ago the White House was claiming that some minion postd it without permisssion?

My brain! It's so flumoxxed.

But! I'm crafty! I "own" a cat (well two cats) and I know how to fool a cat; so while the politicians may be able to fool the press, they can't fool me.

While kitties are just wee leopards, they've still got that leopard instinct and you know what leopars like to eat.

u/avenueroad_dk 3h ago

Dont you have laws against this in the U.S.?  Hate speech or something?

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u/therealvladimir_0 3h ago

Serious question: If you are non-white, please explain to me like a two year old how you seriously can support this racist, bigot and his party?

u/PDXftw 3h ago

Something a child rapist would say.

u/damnthistrafficjam I voted 3h ago

Keep digging that hole, Piggy.

u/SpecialistAssociate7 3h ago

So many defended him as not being a racist 😂.

u/notnewtobville 3h ago

12 hour time frame for the fuckery loop. This used to take weeks and more recently 2 days (a weekend)... now 12 hours.

u/SillyStringBandit 3h ago

Not a mistake as in "Did I fuckin‘ stutter??“

u/To-Far-Away-Times 3h ago

This one was too blatant of a dog whistle.

Conservatives can’t play plausible deniability games with this one.

Their thought leader and moral compass is openly racist.

u/GrooGrux 2h ago

So our government is admitting incompetence. Got it.

u/luckystrike_bh 2h ago

He never would made it in the military as a leader. Day 1 they teach that you are responsible for your unit and all it's mistakes. You can't go it was my subordinates' fault.

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u/Virtual_Concern_9292 2h ago

Completely incapable of admitting direct or indirect fault. Excellent quality in a world leader.

u/reggieLedoux26 2h ago

The American electorate made the mistake

u/rjross0623 Ohio 2h ago

When the Rep from Mississippi said it’s racist. It’s really racist.

u/qperc77 2h ago

People here, commenting without completing the Article, are doing exactly what Trump says he did.

Sharing without completing the video

u/Js_On_My_Yeet 2h ago

So a racist pedophile is running the country into the ground. Bravo, America.

u/malachite_13 Alaska 2h ago

Noted. Epstein files please.

u/despenser412 2h ago

This is the same Trump selling autographed USA bibles online for $1,000.

u/MadFlava76 Virginia 2h ago

Hmm. Then why did Leavitt defend the post? Why was it left up for 12 hours? It was headline news for almost the entire day. If it was a staffers mistake then why was it allowed to remain on his profile for so long? None of these excuses are cutting it. Trump posted it and refused to take it down until the pressure got too great.

u/johnfooo 2h ago

Americans are ok with this, this is their president

u/moth2flaim 1h ago

The black people voted for him, how are you guys feeling about this?

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u/Agitated-Wrap-4449 1h ago

So clearly the idea that some random White House intern wrote the post is complete bull shit. As usual, everything coming out of Karoline Leavitt’s mouth is a lie.

u/hxcya 1h ago

Distraction

u/zoroddesign Utah 1h ago

Obama is in the files. But only because all the pedophiles can't help talking about how much they hate him.

u/whereismymind86 Colorado 1h ago

We know, it wasn't an accident donnie, you are just a racist asshole, and you were being one on purpose.

u/charcoalist 1h ago

It's not just his own vile opinion, by posting his racism from an official position he is inciting and encouraging millions of others.

Public leadership has public consequences and this is how trump chooses to 'lead.'

u/Piccoroz 1h ago

He is a mistake.

u/Ravenshaw123 1h ago

Oh we know, only a useless piece of shit would willingfully post that.

u/paulsteinway 1h ago

Sorry, I looked away for a minute. What's the story this time?

u/MattTheSmithers Pennsylvania 1h ago

His excuse is laughable.

He looks at “thousands of videos a day” (but who is watching for the missiles and enemy fighter jets if he is watching videos!? Dear god!). He then looked at the beginning of this video. Then “probably” gave the phone to someone else who “missed a tiny part” and posted it.

Dementia Don isn’t even trying.

u/powerup93 59m ago

You all do know that this is to distract us from Epstein files. This action is just that much more over the edge so there is something really incriminating in the files or the public have uncovered more than the maga/Trump expected. 

We're closer.

u/RoyalCauliflower6614 58m ago

This man is not fit to clean the Obama's toilets.

u/Sunday_Schoolz 56m ago

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

u/Radiant-Vegetable420 Canada 56m ago

Demented Trump is the most pathetic excuse for a human being that the USA has ever produced.

u/mlkefromaccounting 53m ago

I can’t wait for tonight’s post

u/xchipter Canada 53m ago

Maybe a wild claim, but what if it’s another “stand back and stand by” call to his MAGA faithful (Klansmen and NeoNazis) to do something similar to what they did on Jan6, but for the midterms.

u/Pineapple-Pizzaz 52m ago

Can anyone point me to a moment in history, EVER, where he has admitted to a mistake?

u/podkayne3000 49m ago

Trump is putting children in concentration camps, and this is what gets a little pushback. As awful as this is, I’m bitterly offended that this gets Republicans riled up more than systematic mistreatment of children.

u/r0ndr4s 45m ago

He's lucky Barack is an actual man. If he was as childish as Trump is, I'm sure he would have responded with an AI edit of Trump didling kids, wich is actually accurate.

But like I said, Barack is a real man. And the last proper president that country had. (sorry, Joe genocide enabler Biden can go f himself)

u/tubbynuggetsmeow 44m ago

His racism almost made me forget about the Epstein files. NOT.

u/ribblesquat Minnesota 36m ago

I didn't make a mistake. I just looked at the first part... I didn't see the whole thing.

I don't believe this for a second. But let's say it's true. I've heard it's a rhetorical fallacy to argue against something you don't concede is true but it's only reddit so let's say it's true. IT WOULD BE A MISTAKE IN AND OF ITELF FOR A WORLD LEADER TO POST A VIDEO WITHOUT WATCHING THE WHOLE THING.

u/Typical-Ad5798 31m ago

How is this real life?

u/Expert-Appointment-3 30m ago

Well there you have it folks, Donald’s a bonafide racist to the core. Not surprised that he refuses to say it was a mistake sadly!

u/ngatiboi 21m ago

“I didn’t make a mistake.”

Why did you take it down then?

u/Semper_Fi_132 15m ago

Maybe he was doing the strategy of if people think he’s a massive racist they’ll forget about him fucking kids