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U.S. President Donald Trump's racist societal media station featuring erstwhile President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama was deleted connected Friday (February 6, 2026) aft a backlash from some Republicans and Democrats who criticised the video arsenic offensive.
Mr. Trump said aboriginal connected Friday (February 6, 2026) that helium won't apologise for the post. "I didn't marque a mistake," helium said.
The Republican President's nighttime station connected Thursday (February 5) was blamed connected a staffer aft wide backlash, from civilian rights leaders to seasoned Republican senators, for its attraction of the nation's archetypal Black President and archetypal lady.
A uncommon admittance of a misstep by the White House, the deletion came hours aft property caput Karoline Leavitt dismissed "fake outrage" implicit the post. After calls for its removal — including by Republicans — the White House said a staffer had posted the video erroneously.
The station was portion of a flurry of overnight enactment connected Mr. Trump's Truth Social relationship that amplified his mendacious claims that the 2020 predetermination was stolen from him, contempt courts astir the state and Mr. Trump's first-term lawyer wide uncovering nary grounds of systemic fraud.
Mr. Trump has a grounds of intensely idiosyncratic disapproval of the Obamas and of utilizing incendiary, sometimes racist, rhetoric — from feeding the prevarication that Mr. Obama was not a native-born U.S. national to crude generalisations astir majority-Black countries.
The station came successful the archetypal week of Black History Month and days aft a Trump proclamation cited "the contributions of achromatic Americans to our nationalist greatness" and "the American principles of liberty, justice, and equality." An Obama spokeswoman said the erstwhile President, a Democrat, had nary response.
An net meme
Nearly each of the 62-second clip appears to beryllium from a blimpish video alleging deliberate tampering with voting machines successful battleground states arsenic 2020 votes were tallied.
Those frames originated from a abstracted video, antecedently circulated by an influential blimpish meme maker. It shows Mr. Trump arsenic "King of the Jungle" and depicts Democratic leaders arsenic animals, including Joe Biden.
"This is from an net meme video depicting President Trump arsenic the King of the Jungle and Democrats arsenic characters from the Lion King," Mr. Leavitt said by text.
Disney's 1994 diagnostic movie that Mr. Leavitt referenced is acceptable connected the savannah, not successful the jungle, and it does not see large apes.
"Please halt the fake outrage and study connected thing contiguous that really matters to the American public," Ms. Leavitt added.
By noon, the station had been taken down, with work placed connected a Mr. Trump subordinate.
The White House mentation raises questions astir power of Mr. Trump's societal media account, which he's utilized to levy import taxes, endanger subject action, marque different announcements and intimidate governmental rivals. The president often signs his sanction oregon initials aft argumentation posts.
The White House did not instantly respond to an enquiry astir however posts are vetted and erstwhile the nationalist tin cognize erstwhile Mr. Trump himself is posting.
Mark Burns, a pastor and a salient Trump protagonist who is Black, said Friday (February 6, 2026) connected X that he'd spoken "directly" with Mr. Trump and that helium recommended to the President that helium occurrence the staffer who posted the video and publically condemn what happened.
"He knows this is wrong, offensive, and unacceptable," Mr. Burns posted.
