Karoline Leavitt Gives Jaw-Dropping Defense of Trump's Racist Obama Video

[orangecrush]

In a frenzied posting spree overnight, Trump shared a clip about conspiracy theories regarding so-called rigged elections. The video ends showing the Obamas with their heads superimposed onto the bodies of animated apes.

The video was widely condemned, with California Governor and Trump foe Gavin Newsom describing it as “disgusting.” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, however, called the outrage around it “fake".

In a statement to Newsweek and other outlets, Leavitt said: “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King.”

“Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public,” Leavitt added.


https://www.thedailybeast.com/karoline-leavitt-gives-jaw-dropping-defense-of-donald-trumps-racist-obama-video/

[dalton99a]

1. Republicans are okay with it

[surfered]

14. Yes it plays well with his base.

[agingdem]

42. of course they're ok with it...

Republicans voted for a a malicious sadistic hate-fueled racist degenerate because there was no way in hell they were going to "allow" another person of color to occupy the Oval Office again...no surprise there...

[Lonestarblue]

44. Republicans are the ones who have stoked racism and used it to get elected for decades.

Beginning with Reagan and made worse by Trump. There's a reason Reagan announced his candidacy for president in Neshoba County, Mississippi. It was near the site where the KKK murdered civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner in 1964. Reagan chose a rural location and one where citizens supported the Klan and a one of the most racist states in the country. Reagan's speech focused on states' rights, a phrase used by white supremacists to justify racial segregation.

There's a direct progression from Nixon's Southern Strategy to incarcerate as many black voters as possible to prevent their votes to Trump's vicious racist policies of today. Trump's Republican Party is totally white supremacist and groups like ICE are today's version of the KKK.

I expect nothing to change because Republicans love to hate non-white people and are delusional enough to believe that they can make the US an all-white nation.

[Chasstev365]

2. The ease with which they can lie...

[LeftinOH]

3. What "matters to the American public" is that we should have a President

who does not engage in crass and juvenile internet trolling. That matters.

[rampartd]

10. bingo

this guy has a freakin button.

how about "grow up."

[newdeal2]

11. And this is what he is doing late at night

He is probably on so many drugs that he can’t sleep so he goes into these manic episodes. It’s quite scary in a way.

[rampartd]

15. "god grant me the serenity....."

this has only just begun

if kelly can be recalled to duty for court martial so can i. musk has everything he needs to steal every mortgage and clean all our bank accounts. overnight.

i can't let that stop the fight, but does caution discretion.

[intheflow]

4. We should focus on things that matter to the public?

Like abolishing ICE and the Epstein files? If you say so, KKKaroline.

[durablend]

5. 'zactly.

WHERE'S THE EPSTEIN FILES ALREADY?

I don't see things getting more affordable either.

How 'bout we talk about those.

[underpants]

6. Seeing the "fake" excuse a lot on Twitter. Even Grok confirms it's true.

So it’s more of the:
He didn’t do or say that
Okay he did but you don’t understand what he meant
Relax/ it was a joke.

[BattleRow]

19. Another example of attempted Leavitty..

[malaise]

27. Leavitty..

Brilliant 😀
Rec

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Normalization of NAZI.

Thanks, Putin.

[Emile]

8. She plays that little Nazi role down pat.

[mountain grammy]

9. shouldn't she go on maternity leave or somethng?

[GiqueCee]

18. I pity...

... that poor child, with a mother like Karoline Leavitt.

[surfered]

12. Uh, I can assure the lying blonde lady wearing a cross that my outrage is not fake.

[orangecrush]

13. Same

[Botany]

16. Only one thing that Ms. Leavitt should say. Does Karoline Cross Wearer know Jesus was black?

Posting that blatant racist computer generated image was wrong and myself and President Trump
apologize for doing so and it was an unthinking action. The racism in that image is unAmerican.

Btw 35% of Americans are good with this level of racism they are Trump’s base.

[AverageOldGuy]

17. Memo to Leavitt:

That's not the point, fool.

Why is the most powerful man in the world, the man with his finger on the nuclear trigger, spending his nights firing off hours and hours of social media junk??

And why are you defending him??

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

25. Money

[mymomwasright]

20. Trump as king of the racists!

[Johnny2X2X]

21. There will come a day

When all of these monsters slink away to live the rest of their lives in shame, unable to show their faces in public.

[eShirl]

22. so it's OK if I superimpose DUMP's face on Clyde from Every Which Way But Loose

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

36. I prefer that you superimpose his image

on those fools Clyde took “right turns” on. But I like your reference to the movie!

[rubbersole]

39. Someone already did a version with the caption "Planet of the Rapes"...

..I'd post it if I could.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

23. Right. Your outrage should be used on important things...

...like reporters not smiling enough when they ask you questions about your pedophile past; or who is performing at the halftime of the Super Bowl; or meanies saying mean things and wearing buttons at the Grammys.

It's not like racism ever hurt anyone.....

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. I could say what she is but it might be pulled

Though let me just say it's not the b word.

[angrychair]

26. They are literally trying to bully us into accepting racism

They will bully the press into accepting this racist trash and they will all nod their heads like bobble headed dolls and do whatever they are told.

Fvkc the news media. All of it. All of them. They are all worthless sycophants, sucking up to a madman.

[thesquanderer]

28. Why does she think it matters that it's from a longer video that included non-AA people as animals as well?

The lack of that context provides its own context, too.

[wolfie001]

29. Forever and always she's a pig

[EnergizedLib]

30. What's the fake outrage?

Anybody with any decency? Any African American who sees it, regardless of how they voted?

So, let’s say if even this doesn’t matter to the American public, what about stocks being plummeted, the bad job market, layoffs inching higher in January?

[Solly Mack]

31. We know you all are racists. No need to make up lies about your racism.

[Wednesdays]

32. "...report on something today that actually matters to the American public."

Well the 25th Amendment actually matters to the American public, no?

[flashman13]

33. Out of the mouth of the holier than thou Queen of Fake Outrage.

[COL Mustard]

46. She wears a cross necklace.

Surely she is holier than the rest of us???

[flashman13]

51. That religious symbol has simply become a right-wing logo. It's just another form of cos play.

No different that the Mar-A-Lardo faces.

[Beck23]

34. This is infantile

[Ping Tung]

35. Goebbels dismisses holocaust as boyish pranks by overeager patriots.

“Every doctrine to become popular, must be made superficial, exaggerated, untrue." Lord Acton

[raccoon]

41. Tha same dude who said, " power tends to corrupt, and absolute power

Corrupts absolutely.”

I’ll have to look up the rest of his quotes. Must’ve been a pretty smart fellow.

[Ping Tung]

50. I agree with most of his sayings but not all. I do agree with this one.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. Lord Acton

[Blue Owl]

37. ANY other employee, manager, or board member would be immediately fired if they did this

Ms. Leavitt, please explain the goddamned double standard to us, you enabling traitor...

[QED]

38. IOW: He was just joking.

Always the same when he gets called out.

[Bengus81]

43. Can I say one thing...FUCK YOU Carolyin'. I've had about enough of your racist,trump humping

screed too. Why that husband of yours hasn't file for divorce is beyond me.

[COL Mustard]

45. Every time I think Trump and his minions

Have reached bottom, they surprise me by digging lower. They are truly disgusting.

[ChicagoTeamster]

47. Trump has a lot of nerve talking about spies after what was revealed in the Epstein files.

[struggle4progress]

48. She has the brains of a ping-pong ball

[William Seger]

49. The Botox-lipped liar's biggest lie was that she'd never lie to the American people (nt)

[Jacson6]

52. There is nothing jaw dropping. This administration is racist. n/t

[LetMyPeopleVote]

53. After Karoline Leavitt tried to defend the latest example of the president's routine racism, the White House stepped on

After Karoline Leavitt tried to defend the latest example of the president’s routine racism, the White House stepped on her dreadful argument.

Trump amplifying another racist video got me thinking about the commitment he made to Black voters in his second inaugural — and how quickly he returned to the kind of gutter racism that helped fuel his political rise in the first place. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-02-06T16:01:29.577Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-house-tries-to-defend-trump-amplifying-a-racist-video-targeting-the-obamas

In the fall, for example, the Republican used the term “DEI” as a slur for minorities in blaming their involvement with the construction of Barack Obama’s presidential library. Soon after, the president, as part of an ugly anti-immigrant pitch, publicly referred to Somali Americans as “garbage” and revived his “s—hole countries” rhetoric.

The list, alas, continues to grow longer. The Associated Press reported:

President Donald Trump used his social media account to share a video about election conspiracy theories that includes a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle. […]

Nearly all of the 62-second clip, which was among dozens of Truth Social posts from Trump overnight, appears to be from a conservative video alleging deliberate tampering with voting machines in battleground states as the 2020 presidential votes were tallied. At the 60-second mark is a quick scene of two primates, with the Obamas’ smiling faces imposed on them.

The fact that the Republican president didn’t make the video himself is hardly exculpatory: Trump saw the video and thought it’d be a good to idea to amplify it, just as he did in his first term when he promoted a video of a supporter wearing Trump campaign gear while shouting “white power!”...

Republican Sen. Tim Scott, who is Black, wrote online that he was praying the video “was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House.” The South Carolinian, who’s currently chairing the National Republican Senatorial Committee, added: “The President should remove it.”....

Complicating matters, a few hours after Leavitt tried to defend the racist video, the White House changed its story, saying in a statement, “A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down.”

Evidently, the press secretary’s “fake outrage” line proved unsustainable.

In his second inaugural address, Trump said: “To the Black and Hispanic communities, I want to thank you for the tremendous outpouring of love and trust that you have shown me with your vote. We set records, and I will not forget it. I’ve heard your voices in the campaign, and I look forward to working with you in the years to come.”

Like too many of Trump’s promises, he wasted little time in trashing this commitment and returning to the kind of gutter racism that helped fuel his political rise in the first place.