Barack Obama Responds to Trump’s Racist Ape Video: ‘Doesn’t Seem to Be Any Shame’
Barack Obama responds to racist video Shared by Donald Trump’s Truth Social account A news story last week portrayed the former president and his wife, Michelle Obama, as monkeys. “What’s true is that there doesn’t seem to be any shame about it among people who used to think you had to have some kind of decency,” Obama said while speaking to Brian Taylor Cohen on Saturday’s episode of his podcast.
Obama emphasized that “it is important to recognize that the majority of the American people find this behavior deeply disturbing.”
He continued: “You know, it’s true that it attracts attention. It’s true that it’s distracting. But you know, as I travel around the country, as you travel around the country, you meet people. They still believe in kindness, kindness, kindness. And there’s also a kind of clown show going on on social media and on television.”
“And the truth is, there doesn’t seem to be any shame about that among people who used to think that you had to have some kind of decency and a sense of civility and respect for the office, right? So that’s lost,” Obama also said.
But the former president also said he has reason to be hopeful.
“The reason I say the majority of the American people do not approve of this is because eventually the answer will come from the American people. And we just saw that in Minnesota and Minneapolis.”
The unprecedented nature of ICE’s actions in Minneapolis [and] Obama said “St. Paul” led to “an extraordinary outpouring of organizing, of community building, of kindness, of neighbors, of buying people food, of escorting kids to school, of teachers standing up for their kids.”
“Not just randomly, but in a systematic and organized way, citizens are saying, ‘This is not the America we believe in, and we are going to fight back and we are going to push back with facts, with cameras, and with peaceful protests,’ and it’s shining a light on behavior that we’ve seen in authoritarian countries in the past, and we’ve seen in dictatorships, but we don’t see in America.”
Trump repeatedly refused to apologize for the video. “As you know, it was a video about voter fraud, and it was a pretty long video, and it had a little bit about ‘The Lion King,'” he told reporters this week.
He continued: “It did very well; it was shown everywhere long before it was published. But it was very powerful, and I’m sure you’ve seen it, it’s a very powerful piece about voter fraud. And the piece you’re talking about, I think, has been published many times everywhere over the years.”
Reaction to the video was overwhelmingly negative on both sides of the aisle, and Trump’s team deleted the video after it remained up for 12 hours.
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