Former President Barack Obama called out MAGA’s “deeply troubling’ behavior in a measured response to the racist video shared by current President Donald Trump, which depicted the former president and wife Michelle Obama as apes.
Obama sat for an interview, published Saturday, with liberal influencer Brian Tyler Cohen, in which he was asked to weigh in on conservatives’ saying things that would have been “disqualifying just a few years ago now,” but now not only feel “acceptable,” but are “actually rewarded.”
He brought up instances such as Vice President JD Vance saying “you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore,” as well as Trump’s now-deleted infamous ape post on Truth Social.
The video has been removed, but it received backlash from Democrats and Republicans. The president, however, refused to apologize for uploading the video in the first place.
He instead claims the video was uploaded by a staffer, who did not have action taken against them, and that he hadn’t seen the portion of the video featuring racist imagery.
