US president, who blamed aide for post depicting Obamas as apes, maintains video is not a problem
Donald Trump on Thursday continued to brush off widespread backlash over a racist video posted to his social media account last week, and said no White House staffer had faced consequences for the offensive post.
Asked by Weijia Jiang of CBS News on Thursday whether he had “fired or disciplined that staffer who posted the video from your account that included the Obamas”, Trump said that he had not.
The president then went on to excuse the racist clip, which depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as cartoon apes, as a reference to The Lion King, an animated film that has no apes in it.
The video posted on Trump’s Truth Social account late at night spliced together part of a documentary that presented conspiracy theories about the 2020 election as fact, and a few seconds of the racist animation of the Obamas.
