Outrage after Trump overnight Truth Social spree includes AI video of Obamas as monkeys

Although he sometimes uses X, President Donald Trump has used his own Truth Social platform as his primary social media outlet during his second presidency — often sending a barrage of controversial posts on the same night. And Trump's Truth Social posts of Thursday, February 5 and Friday, February 6 are generating plenty of discussion, from a dog video to a racist video attacking former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama.

For the dog post, Trump forwarded a TikTok video that read, "Watch my dog appear out of NOWHERE when I pour some whipped cream."

Social media users are puzzled by the dog video. On X, Washington Post reporter Dan Diamond posted simply, "?"

Meanwhile, the Obamas post — which forwarded a video depicting the Obamas as monkeys — is generating outrage.

Newsweek, early Friday morning, reported, "A video posted by U.S. President Donald Trump's Truth Social account contained a racist depiction of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. At the end of the 62-second video — otherwise about voting machines — the Obamas' faces appear on apes' bodies for about 1 second as The Tokens' song 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' plays."

Deadline's Jake Kanter reported, "An apparently AI-generated clip portraying Barack and Michelle Obama as apes has been shared on Donald Trump‘s Truth Social account. Overnight, the U.S. president’s verified account twice posted a minute-long video about voting machine anomolies, which features the PatriotNewsOutlet.com watermark. In the final moments of the video, a two-second clip flashes up showing the Obamas as apes, dancing in a jungle setting to 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight.'"

The Guardian reported, "The racist depiction of the Obamas – the first Black president and first lady in American history – appears at the end of a one-minute video perpetuating the false and disproven claims that ballot-counting company Dominion Voting Systems helped steal the 2020 presidential election from Trump. The company in 2023 settled for $787.5m with Fox News in a landmark defamation lawsuit."In a February 6 post n X, economist and PAICE CEO Lars Christenen wrote, "THIS is the US. Americans maybe you should get your act together and have this man removed. It is shameful."

David Jolly, a former Republican congressman and Never Trump conservative, argued that the Obamas post underscores a broader problem in the GOP.

Jolly tweeted, "Folks, this election is no longer about policy - it's about our national identity, about who we are. The President depicting the Obamas as monkeys, a Florida gubernatorial candidate unleashing antisemitism and cheered for it, another peddling Islamophobia, ICE agents detaining a 5 year old in bunny ears and a Spiderman backpack, the whitewashing of credible allegations in the Epstein files…. It's vile."

Londoner Richard Woodruff, known for volunteering in war-torn Ukraine, tweeted, "The F—— President of the United States of America just casually posted that all Black Americans are monkeys to him…. he shoots Americans in the street, now he calls the Obamas f—— monkeys. F—— TRUMP. Do something TODAY, America!!!!"

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