President Donald Trump’s racist social media post featuring former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle was deleted after a backlash from both Republicans and Democrats who criticized the video as offensive.
The Republican president’s Thursday night post was deleted Friday and blamed on a staffer after widespread backlash, from civil rights leaders to veteran Republican senators, for its treatment of the nation’s first Black president and first lady. The deletion, a rare admission of a misstep by the White House, came hours after press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed “fake outrage” over the post. After calls for its removal for being racist – including by Republicans – the White House said a staffer had posted the video erroneously and it had been taken down.
my comment wasn’t about what people are or can be mad about. it was about where republican politicians draw the line and they clearly don’t draw it at people being murdered in the streets.
because i guarantee you that angry citizens are not what made him take it down. and i am honestly surprised that they actually made him take it down, however they did it.
because compared to all the things he gets away with, this one, however disgusting, is one of the smaller “missteps”.