All The Noise And It’s Friday!

Primal thoughts from Trump.

Look, former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama are thick skin. They do not base their life on the carnival barking from President Donald J. Trump.

He has a job approval of 33% as we end the first week of February.

It has no affect on Black voters who backed Trump in the 2024 election. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised it was a Black MAGAland who did this shit.

Are you getting tired of this rage bait?

Calling the former president an ape is vile but it doesn't solve the affordability crisis happening in real time. Trump is notorious for causing distractions to avoid accountability.

All you are doing is amplifying his stupid antics.

It is free speech.

Trump shared a video late Thursday that includes a brief clip of former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama depicted as apes.

The video was immediately criticized by Democrats as racist, while the White House said it was from a meme related to “The Lion King” in which Trump is the king of the jungle and Democrats are characterized as various animals.

The broader video, just more than a minute long, largely focused on an unsubstantiated voting fraud theory seeking to explain “some of the anomalies that we noticed in the 2020 general elections.” Trump has for years claimed, without evidence, that the 2020 election was rigged against him.

But, in the last couple of seconds, the video flashed to a scene with the Obamas’ heads superimposed on what appeared to be the bodies of primates. With their mouths wide open, the Obamas’ heads bounced along to a recognizable soundbite from the song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” from “The Lion King.”

In the background, a bird flew across the screen over what’s depicted as the jungle.

The video was met with instant backlash from many of Trump’s most ardent critics, with many criticizing the video as racist for depicting the only Black president and first lady as apes.

But even Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), a Trump ally and the only Black Republican in the Senate, called the post “the most racist thing” he’s seen from this administration.

“Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it,” Scott wrote in a post on the social platform X.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the highest-ranking Black Democrat in the lower chamber, condemned Trump for sharing the video, calling the Obamas “brilliant, compassionate and patriotic Americans,” who “represent the best of this country.”

“Donald Trump is a vile, unhinged and malignant bottom feeder. Why are GOP leaders like John Thune continuing to stand by this sick individual?” he continued. “Every single Republican must immediately denounce Donald Trump’s disgusting bigotry.

Ben Rhodes, a former Obama White House official, wrote on X, “Let it haunt Trump and his racist followers that future Americans will embrace the Obamas as beloved figures while studying him as a stain on our history.”

He was responding to a post from an account called “Republicans against Trump” that shared a still from the video and wrote, “BREAKING: Trump just posted a video on Truth Social that includes a racist image of Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys.”

“There’s no bottom,” the post added.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a potential 2028 presidential contender, also called on Republicans to speak out against the post.

“Disgusting behavior by the President,” the governor’s press office said in post, also responding to the “Republicans against Trump” page.

“Every single Republican must denounce this. Now,” Newsom added.

But the White House dismissed the criticism, noting the brief clip of the Obamas came from a longer video depicting many Democrats as various jungle animals and Trump as the lion. In that initial video, all the jungle animals bowed to the lion.

“This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.

“Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public,” she continued.