United States President Donald Trump began immediate and widespread condemnation early Friday, February 6, after posting a video on his Social Truth Platform.
The video shows former US President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as monkeys.
The one-minute video, which propagates the false conspiracy theory that the election company Dominion Voting Systems helped steal the election, ends with a two-second clip of the Obamas’ smiling faces transformed into monkey faces dancing to music.
Dominion has reportedly settled a $787.5 million defamation case against the news organization. fox news.
The post was part of more than 60 posts from a social media spree that Trump posted overnight.
Before facing public backlash, Trump supporters liked it a thousand times.
Several American politicians and media personalities condemned Trump’s behavior.
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office declared: “Disgusting behavior. All Republicans must denounce it. Now.”
Political strategist Adam Parkhomenko wrote: “This is overt racism. Full stop…This is who he is.”
The incident returns openly racist images to the center of American political discourse, sparking outrage over its attack on the country’s first black First Family. Trump’s prodigious social media session also included repeated falsehoods about the 2020 election, as well as his suggestion to add his image to Mount Rushmore.
