'Indefensible': Black Trump allies grapple with fallout from racist video of Obamas

[Guno צְבִי]

Several Black conservatives with ties to President Donald Trump’s administration issued rare public rebukes after a video shared on the president’s social media platform late Thursday night included a racist animation depicting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama with the bodies of apes.

But the episode, which unfolded during Black History Month, exposed fault lines within Trump-aligned Black conservatism, where some expressed deep disappointment that the video was shared at all, while others defended the president and framed the controversy as an unfortunate but human error.

Among the critics was the Black Conservative Federation, a Trump aligned group that has maintained close ties to the president and issued a rare critical statement.


The video was shared on the president’s account at 11:44 p.m. ET Thursday, and the White House said around noon Friday that it had been taken down.

'Indefensible': Black Trump allies grapple with fallout from racist video of Obamas

The video was later deleted and the White House said it had been posted in error by a staffer.

abcnews.go.com

 

[Guno צְבִי]

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt initially dismissed the backlash, saying early Friday that the clip came from "an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King," and urged reporters to "stop the fake outrage."

 

[LurchAddams]

Several Black conservatives with ties to President Donald Trump’s administration issued rare public rebukes after a video shared on the president’s social media platform late Thursday night included a racist animation depicting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama with the bodies of apes.

But the episode, which unfolded during Black History Month, exposed fault lines within Trump-aligned Black conservatism, where some expressed deep disappointment that the video was shared at all, while others defended the president and framed the controversy as an unfortunate but human error.

Among the critics was the Black Conservative Federation, a Trump aligned group that has maintained close ties to the president and issued a rare critical statement.


The video was shared on the president’s account at 11:44 p.m. ET Thursday, and the White House said around noon Friday that it had been taken down.

'Indefensible': Black Trump allies grapple with fallout from racist video of Obamas

The video was later deleted and the White House said it had been posted in error by a staffer.

abcnews.go.com

Tried to blame a "staffer". What a fucking asshole.

 

[Libhater]

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt initially dismissed the backlash, saying early Friday that the clip came from "an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King," and urged reporters to "stop the fake outrage."

You posting the fake outrage by the left tells us that you are starting to see the lengths that libs will go to undermine our greatest president Trump. Could reality be touching on you in its positive affect?

 

[Taichiliberal]

These jokers are what my grandparents use to call "black fools". Even faced with the hand writing on the wall like Little Smokey J.D. Vance declaring that white folk don't have to apologize for being white anymore palm or Cheeto Jeezus stating that the Civil Rights movements treat white people badly whoa ... these "black conservatives" are suddenly offended or are still shining shoes (which gives real shoe shine folk a bad name) for the MAGA GOP.

May they all be visited by the spirits of every black American that died during Slavery and Jim Crow.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

You posting the fake outrage by the left tells us that you are starting to see the lengths that libs will go to undermine our greatest president Trump. Could reality be touching on you in its positive affect?