Former President Barack Obama revisited the controversial video that briefly depicted himself and his wife, Michelle Obama, as apes, a fleeting clip mistakenly posted to President Donald J. Trump’s social media account earlier this year.
The “racist” images flickered by at the tail end of a February video on Truth Social that sought to raise awareness about election fraud, an AI parody of “The Lion King” that not only featured the Obamas, but also other prominent Democrats as jungle animals, including disgraced former President Joe Biden as a baboon.
After igniting a massive uproar from Democrats and their media friends, the video was taken down, with it being explained that the inclusion of the offensive imagery was the fault of an unnamed staffer who failed to catch the erroneous inclusion of the satirical clip that auto-played after the main video.
From 10:36 pm ET-midnight last night the president posted/re-posted dozens of clips including videos/clips pushing long-debunked 2020 election conspiracy theories after which one features this vile & racist depiction of President and First Lady Obama. pic.twitter.com/EdCUxVEFiC
— Jake Tapper 🦅 (@jaketapper) February 6, 2026
Even though it was acknowledged to be a mistake and the “racist” nature of the video was condemned by Trump himself, thin-skinned Obama isn’t about to just let it go.
During a fawning interview of the nation’s 44th president published on Monday by The New Yorker, Obama dredged up his past grievance when discussing his acrimonious relationship with Trump with the outlet’s Peter Slevin.
“I don’t take it personally,” Mr. Obama said. “I mean, I’m always offended when my wife and kids get dragged into things, because they didn’t choose this. . . . That’s a line that even people whose politics I deeply reject, I would expect them to care about. I would never talk about somebody’s family in that way.”
The racial arsonist also bemoaned other AI videos posted to Trump’s account, including those that treat the serious business of warfare “like a video game” and one that showed “excrement dumped on ordinary citizens.”
Obama was referring to an October 2025 video showing a crowned Trump piloting a fighter jet and dropping a load of what appeared to be raw sewage on a crowd of “No Kings” protesters.
“I mean, I’m a fair target in the sense of, yeah, you can feel free to pick on me, because I’m your own size,” the former POTUS said.
The uproar over the “racist” video was just more of the same ginned-up outrage that Obama’s party and the media monkeys have long trafficked in during the Trump era, and social media users provided the context that was lacking at the time, posting the video in its entirety to debunk the hoax that the Obamas were unfairly maligned.
This is the full video meme showing President Trump as the king of the jungle and radical Democrats as verious animals in the Jungle including Barack and Michelle Obama.
If you find this racist, please seek help you have a mental disorder! pic.twitter.com/GWrjOzHdiX
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) February 6, 2026
“This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from ‘The Lion King.’ Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said at the time.
“You know, it is true that it gets attention. It’s true that it’s a distraction. But, you know, as I’m traveling around the country, as you’re traveling around the country, you meet people. They still believe in decency, courtesy, and kindness. And there’s this sort of clown show that’s happening in social media and on television,” Obama told leftist podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen after the faux controversy.
“And what is true is that there doesn’t seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sort of decorum. And a sense of propriety and respect for the office, right? So that’s been lost,” he said.
“I just looked at the first part,” Trump told reporters onboard Air Force One when asked about the video at the time. “I didn’t see the whole thing. I guess during the end of it, there was some kind of a picture that people don’t like. I wouldn’t like it either, but I didn’t see it.”
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