Accusations of racism: Racist put up – Trump sees no fault in himself | EUROtoday

US President Donald Trump doesn’t need to apologize for a racist put up on his social media account. The put up has now been deleted – however the outrage over the video wherein former President Barack Obama and his spouse Michelle are depicted as monkeys remains to be big.

This is essentially the most racist factor he has ever seen from this White House, wrote black Republican Senator Tim Scott on When requested about this, he advised journalists: “No, I didn’t make a mistake.”

Instead, he claimed to journalists on the federal government aircraft Air Force One on Friday (native time) that he was the “least racist president you’ve had in a long time.” The US President has typically made racist statements. Some examples:

December 2025: Trump calls individuals from Somalia trash

The Republican describes Somalia as a depressing nation and other people from the East African nation as rubbish. “I don’t want them in our country. I’m honest. Some might say, ‘Oh, that’s not politically correct.’ I don’t care. I don’t want them in our country,” Trump stated on the finish of a Cabinet assembly. The US might go by some means, “and we will go down the wrong path if we continue to let garbage into our country.” There is a big Somali neighborhood within the state of Minnesota, which is on the middle of the Trump administration’s deportation coverage.

The US President additionally repeatedly assaults the black MP Ilhan Omar. Given her Somali roots, he has typically instructed to the US citizen that she ought to “go back” to Somalia. At instances he additionally described the left-wing MP as “nasty” or made enjoyable of the Muslim girl’s headband.

September 2024: Trump claims migrants eat pets

In a TV duel in opposition to Democrat Kamala Harris, Trump, because the Republican presidential candidate, accused migrants of consuming pets. “In Springfield, they eat the dogs – the people who came here – they eat the cats. They eat the pets of the people who live there,” he stated, with out citing any proof to assist the declare. Trump was referring to an announcement by his vice presidential candidate JD Vance, who had beforehand made allegations that migrants from Haiti had been stealing and consuming pets in Springfield, his dwelling state of Ohio.

Trump on Harris in July 2024: “Suddenly turned black.”

As the Republican presidential candidate, Trump sparked outrage with a weird assault on his then-opponent Kamala Harris. For a very long time, Harris marketed completely together with her Indian ancestry after which “suddenly became black,” stated Trump throughout an look earlier than the Association of Black Journalists in Chicago. “She was always of Indian descent and only advertised her Indian descent,” Trump stated. “I didn’t know she was black until she suddenly became black a few years ago. And now she wants to be known as black,” he continued. He revered each, he added. Harris is the primary girl, the primary Black and the primary Asian American to take the oath as US Vice President.

What Trump says concerning the video on his account

In the present case, Trump stated he solely watched the start of the video. He assumes that on the finish there was one thing that folks did not like – he did not prefer it both, however he did not see it.

When requested if he condemned the racist content material of the video, Trump stated: “Of course I do.” The White House initially tried to justify the put up with its racist depiction. Spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt wrote in an announcement that was broadcast by the TV station CNN, for instance, that the mock outrage ought to cease. It is an excerpt from an Internet meme video wherein Trump is depicted as king of the jungle and the Democrats as characters from the basic movie “The Lion King”.

The put up was later deleted from Trump’s account and the blame was positioned on an worker who had mistakenly printed the put up.

The Obama depiction was a part of a put up on Trump’s account about alleged manipulation within the 2020 election, which Trump misplaced. After a few minute, in a short interlude, the Obamas’ faces appeared with monkey our bodies to the tune of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” Democrat Obama is the primary black particular person to be elected President of the United States. He was in workplace from 2009 to 2017.