Barack Obama has responded to a video that was briefly posted by President Trump that depicted him and Michelle Obama as apes. As previously reported by the WLT Report, President Trump received backlash last week from Democrats after posting a video on Truth Social that featured Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. The video was quickly deemed racist by liberal and even some conservatives. However, the video featuring the Obamas as apes appeared at the end of the video posted on Trump’s Truth Social account and lasted only about 2 seconds, whereas the majority of the video discussed voting machine flaws in the 2020 general election. The section depicting Obama as an ape appeared to be from an entirely different video and only appeared because the person who screen-recorded the video accidentally didn’t cut out the autoplay video that was next. Here was the full video: Senator Scott, this was a meme that auto-played on a screen recording of the actual video he posted. Please focus your energy on getting Voter ID enacting and deporting the 30+ illegal aliens in the country. Voters elected you to focus on serious issues.pic.twitter.com/HUGgi7hoHp — ALX (@alx) February 6, 2026 The Hill provided Obama’s response to the post: Former President Obama argued in an interview published Saturday that American politics has become a “clown show” under the second Trump administration, suggesting that many Americans dislike the rhetoric coming out of the White House in recent months. Obama made the comparison while addressing a controversial video posted on President Trump’s Truth Social account earlier this month that briefly depicted the former president and his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, as apes. Trump has refused to apologize for the video despite strong bipartisan backlash. Instead, the White House blamed a staffer for “erroneously” making the post, and it was taken down. “I think it’s important to recognize that the majority of the American people find this behavior deeply troubling,” Obama told host Brian Tyler Cohen on his “No Lie” podcast. Here was Obama’s full response: Obama responds to the ape meme that inadvertently appeared for two seconds at the end of a video posted by Trump about election fraud. pic.twitter.com/pTDMdclXzY — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 14, 2026 ABC News reported that a staffer posted the video to Trump’s Truth Social: President Donald Trump said Thursday he hasn’t disciplined or fired the staffer he and the White House say posted the video on his social media platform that included a racist animation of the Obamas. Trump continued to downplay the image depicting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes, a racist trope used to dehumanize Black people, that was shared to his social media account last week. The post was deleted after widespread backlash, including from several Republicans who had called for Trump to apologize — which he’s so far refused to do. “Have you fired or disciplined that staffer who posted the video from your account that included the Obamas?” a reporter asked the president on Thursday as he took questions at an unrelated event at the White House. “No I haven’t,” Trump said. Here was Trump’s response to the video being posted: BREAKING: Liberals are livid after President Trump told the Fake News to SHOVE IT, he’s NOT firing the staffer who accidentally posted the Obama ape meme “NO…no, [I won’t apologize]. I didn’t make a mistake! It was a takeoff of Lion King.” NEVER APOLOGIZE, 47! pic.twitter.com/E0UY5n8iJO — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 7, 2026