Karoline Leavitt’s Response to Trump’s Obama Ape Post Under Scrutiny

 https://www.newsweek.com/karoline-leavitt-response-trumps-obama-ape-post-under-scrutiny-11482578

Karoline Leavitt’s attempt to depict President Donald Trump’s video showing Barack and Michelle Obama as apes as a “meme”, based on Disney classic ‘The Lion King’, has triggered a deluge of comments on social media criticizing the White House press secretary.

But there are no apes in ‘The Lion King,’ political commentators and social media users were quick to point out—only a mandrill, Rafiki.

Trump has been attacking the Obamas for years in a way that many have described as rooted in racism. Before being elected to his first term, Trump repeatedly spread false claims saying that Hawaii-born Barack Obama was in fact not born in the U.S. and should have been ineligible for president.