Commentator Slams Trump Repost Depicting Obamas as Apes (Full Transcript)
[00:00:00] Speaker 1: President Trump just posted on social media a hideously racist image of President and First Lady Obama. It came in the midst of a wild social media jag where the president was re-truthing or truthing all sorts of stuff. It started last night at 10.26 p.m. and continued until midnight. There was a video of some deranged person confronting me at the Republican National Convention. I had my earbuds in, didn't hear what she had to say, but I guess President Trump thought that was newsworthy. There were some clips from CNN, ones that I guess he thinks are real and not fake because they suggest support for voter ID, a position he supports. But what was most disturbing, of course, was in the midst of one of the several fake, wrong, inaccurate, debunked videos he put out there about the 2020 election being stolen from him, which it was not, was this video of Michelle Obama and Barack Obama, the president and first lady, as apes with the Lion Sleeps Tonight music playing behind him. I can't get into his heart. I don't know if that was an accident or malicious or cruel or reckless or careless. All I know is putting out a picture like that, video like that of the president and first lady, Obama, depicting them as apes is disgusting and racist and definitely unpresidential.
- The speaker says Trump reposted a racist video depicting the Obamas as apes.
- The repost occurred during a late-night burst of social-media activity that included other contentious content.
- The speaker links the incident to ongoing promotion of debunked claims about the 2020 election.
- The speaker argues the imagery is racist and inappropriate for a president, regardless of intent.