White House Defends Trump Truth Social Post Featuring Obamas as Apes: ‘Fake Outrage’

The White House defended President Donald Trump on Friday after a late Thursday night post on his Truth Social account featured an AI-generated clip of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.

“This is from an Internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from ‘The Lion King,'” 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.”

The video in question, which was posted twice, lasts 1:02 and mostly covers a conspiracy theory related to voting machines and rigged elections. The final two seconds of the video runs into a second screen-recorded clip, which depicts the Obamas as monkeys, set to the tune of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office responded on X, writing, “Disgusting behavior by the President. Every single Republican must denounce this. Now.”

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