Trump shares racist video depicting Obamas as apes

2026-02-06 - 16:36

WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump shared a video on social media depicting Democratic former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama as apes, invoking racist imagery long used to dehumanize people of African descent. Late on Thursday, Trump shared a minute-long video amplifying the Republican U.S. president’s false claims that his 2020 election defeat was the result of fraud. Spliced into the video was an apparently AI-generated clip of dancing primates superimposed with the Obamas’ heads. The Reuters Inside Track newsletter is your essential guide to the biggest events in global sport. Sign up here.