Trump condemned for post depicting Obamas as apes: ‘racist and disgusting’

President Donald Trump has been hit with online criticism after his Truth Social account posted a video which contained a racist depiction of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.

At the end of the 62-second video—otherwise about voting machines—the Obamas’ faces appear on apes’ bodies for about 1 second as The Tokens’ song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” plays. A watermark from an X account @XERIAS_X, a Trump supporting account with 45,900 followers, overlays this portion of the video.

Writing on X, multiple public figures condemned the video with Harry Sisson, a liberal political social media influencer with over 374,000 followers calling it “incredibly racist and disgusting.”

Newsweek reached out to the White House by email to comment on this story outside of normal business hours.

This is a developing story. More to follow.