WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump triggered outrage today after he posted a video depicting Barack Obama, the first Black president in American history, and his wife Michelle as monkeys.
Top Democrats condemned the post as “racist,” even as the White House rejected what it called “fake outrage” and said the video posted late Thursday on Trump’s Truth Social account was from an “internet meme”.
Near the end of the one-minute-long video promoting conspiracies about Republican Trump’s 2020 election loss, the Obamas are shown with their faces on the bodies of monkeys for about one second.
