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

Typically for the former president, he did not want to get into the weeds about why the video had been shared from Trump’s account. Instead he set it in a wider context: “It is true that it gets attention. It’s true that it’s a distraction.

“You meet people, they still believe in decency, courtesy, kindness, and there’s this sort of clown show that’s happening in social media and on television.”