Trump blasted by Obama as ex-president breaks silence over vile apes meme
Former President Barack Obama blasted the state of US politics and said it had descended into a ‘clown show’ after Trump posted a disgusting racist video of him and his wife Michelle
Obama addressed a racist meme posted by Donald Trump(Image: @Brian Tyler Cohen/Barack Obama/YouTube)
Barack Obama has broken his silence after Donald Trump shared a horrific racist video of the former president and his wife Michelle.
The Democrat slammed Trump and warned the “shame” and “decorum” which once led US politics has now been lost. The current US President, on February 5, shared a shocking post on social media which featured the Obama’s as primates in a jungle. This sickening video was later deleted but childish Trump refused to apologise for the racist post and threw blame on a staff member, saying: “I didn’t make a mistake.” Obama sat down with a podcaster and warned the US political environment had descended into a “clown show”.
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The former-president was asked directly about the racist video by podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen, and while Obama did not name Trump directly he did issue a scathing view on the current administration.
Obama said: “First of all, I think it’s important to recognize that the majority of the American people find this behaviour deeply troubling.
“It is true that it gets attention. It’s true that it’s a distraction.” Obama added that while travelling across the US he meets people who “still believe in decency, courtesy, kindness”.
He added: “There’s this sort of clown show that’s happening in social media and on television. 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? That’s been lost.”
While the White House and most Republicans have previously rushed to defend Trump or turn a blind eye to his shocking ramblings and actions, the racist Obama meme received backlash from inside the Republican Party.
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina said the post was “the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House”.
Senator Roger Wicker, from Mississippi, said: “This is totally unacceptable. The president should take it down and apologize.” Senator Pete Ricketts, of Nebraska, said “a reasonable person sees the racist context”.
The video was part of a barrage of posts that amplified his false claims the 2020 election was stolen from him, despite the courts and Trump’s first-term attorney general finding no evidence of systemic fraud.
Trump has previously used inflammatory, and sometimes racist, words against the former president in a petty attempt to bash his predecessors. This included pushing a lie that Obama was not a native-born US.
