Democrats on Friday morning took no time at all to take a video posted by President Trump out of context.
As WLT reported earlier, President Trump received backlash from Democrats after posting a video on Truth Social that featured Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.
The video was quickly deemed as racist by liberal and even some conservatives.
The video section featuring the Obamas as apes was at the end of the video and lasted only about 2 seconds, whereas the majority of the video discussed voting machine flaws in the 2020 general election.
In case you haven’t seen the section that has garnered outrage among some:
Trump’s reposting of a video superimposing the Obamas’ faces on apes is undisguised racist.
MAGA, when will you admit you voted for the wrong person? pic.twitter.com/Qz15nBoVcq
— Alice Williams (@afreegirlll) February 6, 2026
Now here was the full video:
Senator Scott, this was a meme that auto-played on a screen recording of the actual video he posted.
Please focus your energy on getting Voter ID enacting and deporting the 30+ illegal aliens in the country.
Voters elected you to focus on serious issues.pic.twitter.com/HUGgi7hoHp
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) February 6, 2026
In response to the backlash, President Trump deleted the video.
Take a look:
🚨Just in: The video on President Trump's Truth Social account about the Obamas was deleted
“A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down.” pic.twitter.com/YzzvhtpgbT
— The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) February 6, 2026
NPR covered the White House’s response to the post:
In the first week of Black History Month, President Trump posted a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama on social media — a video clip showing the Obamas’ faces on apes. The post was later deleted, and the White House blamed a staffer for “erroneously” posting it.
It was one of dozens of posts Trump shared in the middle of the night on his platform Truth Social and came at the end of a minute-long video promoting conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
ADVERTISEMENTWhite House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the clip before it was deleted, saying “please stop the fake outrage.”
The section of the Obamas as apes comes from this video that also features Biden as a monkey:
First of all, amazing work by @xerias_x making this video.
Second of all, here is the entire video President Trump shared.
Full context proves the video has countless people dancing as monkeys.
Leave it to the MSM to twist it to fit their narrative.
pic.twitter.com/LPlfCSjpNF— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) February 6, 2026
Mike Cernovich noted that the portion of the video featuring the Obamas was probably just a result of a Trump staffer screen recording the next reel that followed the election machine investigation video.
Anyway. Not going to spent the next week talking about an auto reel loading at the end of a screen record. It happens. Whatever.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) February 6, 2026
Most Peaceful Memes thought the same:
It’s pretty clear that the Obama Monkey video was a reels auto play at the end of a screen recording of an election fraud video which is the video Trump actually shared. pic.twitter.com/rQtNQsdOwa
— Mostly Peaceful Memes (@MostlyPeaceful) February 6, 2026
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