It should come as no surprise that President Trump is racist and that he is insanely jealous of President Obama. Obama won the Nobel Prize, which is beyond Trump’s grasp. It rankles Trump that he can’t threaten or bribe the Nobel Prize committee. Trump can’t believe that there is one award that he can’t get no matter how hard he tries.
Trump has repeatedly demonstrated his racism, such as when he referred to African nations as “shithole countries.” He has made clear that he would welcome white immigrants, whether from South Africa or Scandinavia, as he expels immigrants of color. His vision of Make America Great Again seems to rely on depictions of a White America, a time preceding the Civil Rights movement. Norman Rockwell’s family has complained about the Trump administration’s misuse of Rockwell paintings to allude to an idyllic all-white America.
Trump’s spokesperson Karoline Leavitt was quick to denounce protests about the meme as “fake outage” and to urge journalists to focus on issues that “actually matter to the American public.” Like the Epstein files? Or the brutality of ICE?
In the early afternoon, about 1:30 pm, Trump deleted the post, having realized that no one thought it was funny, and many saw it as rank racism.
Erica L. Green and Isabella Kwai wrote in The New York Times:
President Trump posted a blatantly racist video clip portraying former President Barack Obama and the former first lady Michelle Obama as apes, the latest in a long pattern by Mr. Trump of promoting offensive stereotypes about Black Americans and others.
The brief clip, set to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” was spliced near the end of a 62-second video that promoted conspiracy theories about anomalies in the 2020 presidential election.
The depiction of Mr. and Mrs. Obama as apes perpetuates a racist trope, used historically by slave traders and segregationists to dehumanize Black people and justify lynchings and other atrocities. A spokeswoman for Mr. Obama declined to comment.
Mr. Trump has a history of making degrading remarks about people of color, women and immigrants. And in his second administration, official posts from the White House, Labor Department and Homeland Security Department have posted images and slogans that echo white supremacist messaging.
In response to questions about the clip, which Mr. Trump posted Thursday during a late-night spree on social media, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said criticism of the video was “fake outrage.”
“This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King,” she said. “Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.”
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina — the Senate’s only Black Republican — wrote on X that he hoped the post was fake “because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it.”
The latest clip appeared to have been taken from a video that was shared in October by a user on X with the caption “President Trump: King of the Jungle,” and an emoji of a lion.
In that video, several high-profile Democrats — including former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York, former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and former vice president Kamala Harris — were shown as various animals, while Mr. Trump was depicted as a lion. The Obamas, in the clip, were shown as apes. The video ended with the animals bowing down to Mr. Trump.
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Just another “Owning the Libs” distraction technique to divert attention from the Epstein Files or the Stock Market plunge or …. or ….. or …………………
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This is another glimpse into Trump’s utter racism and depravity. The man is sick, delusional and out-of touch.
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That is a presidential as the fascist racist can be. He has to charm his base any way he can, and that is the easiest.
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Do I correctly recall the day when a political candidate was obliged to use a Willie Horton approach dog whistle to attract the rascist vote? We seemed to have reached the point where everyone says it out loud. The louder the better.
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Yeesh to this shameful garbage.
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A spokeswoman for Mr. Obama declined to comment.
Absolutely the best response. T’s worst nightmare is to be ignored.
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TRUMP IS THE NEW GRAND DRAGON
None of this should surprise anyone because we have all been watching the racist brutality of ICE which is the Trump Administration’s New Ku Klux Klan: Klan racists wore pointy hoods and left Ace of Spades “calling cards” behind when they seized a person….ICE racists wear more fashionable ski masks, but they still leave behind an Ace of Spades to intimidate victim’s families that “We’ll be back”.
ICE is the Ku Klux Klan all packaged up as The New Ku Klux Klan, and Trump is the New Grand Dragon.
Referring to Klan and ICE members as “goons” is too kind, and it makes them seem somewhat comical — they are anything but comical: They are vicious racists to their very core.
DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS NEED TO COME TO GRIPS WITH THE FACT THAT THIS FIGHT OVER ICE IS A FIGHT TO THE POLITICAL DEATH OF ONE PARTY OR THE OTHER — IT WILL BE A TAKE-NO-PRISONERS, NO-HOLDS-BARRED, DOWN-AND-DIRTY, HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT FOR THE SURVIVAL OF OUR REPUBLIC, JUST LIKE OUR BLOODY REVOLUTIONARY WAR WAS, PITTING FAMILY MEMBER AGAINST FAMILY MEMBER. Any Democrat who doesn’t have the stomach for this kind of brutal battle should leave the field of combat right now and not just sit around and whine, like Steve Bannon predicts (likely accurately) congressional Democrats will do.
THE WAY IT’S GOING, there will be armed ICE agents at all the key Blue State polling places in November. Voters of color — who usually vote Democratic — will stay away from the polls. Democrat members of Congress will be defeated but can frame their strongly worded letters and hang them above their fireplaces at home, which is where the former Democratic members of Congress will be instead of in Congress. And yet, even as you read this there are Democrats in Congress who are caving in and wanting to play nice-nice with racists Republicans and with The New Grand Dragon. They will lose their seats in Congress or any meaningful role in Congress if they cave.
(You may copy this and share it — especially with Democrats in Congress..while they’re still in Congress.)
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Blue cities & states need to start now preparing protection for people of color who are registered voters so they’re not detained before entering the polling place, & then held until closing.
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