Barack Obama breaks silence on racist video shared by Trump depicting him and Michelle as apes

Barack Obama breaks silence on racist video shared by Trump depicting him and Michelle as apes

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The offensive video, which was shared from President Trump’s Truth Social account, showed America’s first black president and his wife as primates while the song ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ plays in the background.

It played as a small clip at the end of a larger video making unsubstantiated claims about election fraud, yet as the White House was first asked why the president had shared shared such racist imagery, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt decried the questions as ‘fake outrage’.

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