Hours after attending the National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 5, President Donald Trump shared a racist video on his social media platform Truth Social that depicted former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes in a jungle, then removed it hours later amid bipartisan outrage, reports CNN:
Just before noon, the White House blamed a staffer for the video posted to Trump’s Truth Social account and said the post had been removed. The statement came after serious backlash, including from GOP Sen. Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, who called the post racist and said Trump should remove it.
“Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it,” the South Carolina Republican, who’s also the chair of the Senate GOP campaign committee, wrote on X.
The White House had earlier downplayed the response to the video, calling it “fake outrage.”
(Sources: CNN, Donald Trump)