Of all the times President Donald Trump has been openly bigoted and disparaging of entire ethnic groups, he probably never expected that a simple AI-generated image of Barack and Michelle Obama depicted as apes would be the thing he was compelled to spend a whole week explaining away as he defended himself from an endless barrage of well-earned racism accusations.
The commander-in-they’re-eating-the-cats-they’re-eating-the-pets is suddenly so insecure about being perceived as a racist that he’s out here sharing video reels of him posing for photos with various Black celebrities, as if to say, “See, I told you the Blacks love me, and I love the Blacks!”
Sen. Tim Scott —Trump’s favorite Black friend to sometimes remember exists — previously expressed disappointment over what he called “the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House,” saying he was “praying it was fake.”
But I bet when he saw Trump’s collection of Black people photo-ops, he was like, “Wait, why am I not in this reel. Is that Diddy? YOU HAVE DIDDY PHOTOS IN YOUR PHONE BUT NOT MINE???”
Anyway, on Thursday, the president — who previously joined his administration in blaming the sharing of the image on some conveniently anonymous White House staffer — was asked about the video again, prompting him to add additional context.
“That was a video on, as you know, on voter fraud,” he explained, after telling a reporter the (possibly imaginary) staff member who posted it will not be punished. “It was a fairly long video, and they had a little piece and it had to do with the Lion King. It’s doing very well, uh, it’s been shown all over the place, long before that was posted. But that was a very strong – and I’m sure you saw it – a very strong piece on voter fraud, and the piece we were talking about was all over the place, many times I believe, for years.”
As we noted previously, what Trump actually posted was a conspiracy video that claimed the 2020 election voting machines were rigged against him — a lie that has been debunked to death already, and one that has resulted in multiple news networks and Trump supporters being successfully sued by voting machine companies. Tacked on at the end of the video was the racist image of the Obamas, which first appeared in a different video shared by a different Republican, who ultimately apologized for what he claimed was unintentional racism.
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