Racist video is merely the latest in a long line of Trump’s ugly social media posts

 https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/07/politics/trump-racist-video-social-media-posts

The White House has belatedly backed down from a racist video shared on President Donald Trump’s social media feed after blowback from Republicans.

The video promoting false claims of voter fraud concluded with a brief clip of images of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama’s heads affixed to the bodies of apes. After initially trying to defend the post and leaving it up for hours — even labeling the outrage “fake” — the White House eventually gave into bipartisan backlash, removed it and changed its tack.

In 2016, Trump posted an image of Hillary Clinton in front of piles of cash and the words “most corrupt candidate ever” inside a six-sided star reminiscent of the Star of David. The image had previously appeared on antisemitic, White supremacist message boards, and Trump’s campaign soon replaced it with a circle in place of the six-sided star.