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Published 10:59 6 Feb 2026 GMT
Updated 10:59 6 Feb 2026 GMT

US President Donald Trump has posted an AI-generated video in which former president Barack Obama and his wife, former first lady Michelle, are depicted as monkeys.
Trump has been labelled as “clinically insane” and “incredibly racist” for the clip, which he shared on Thursday on his platform, Truth Social.
Within the space of an hour, Trump posted dozens of times on his app, while he also shared a video in which he brought back the unfounded claims of election fraud in 2020.
In the racist video about the Obamas, 59 seconds into the AI-generated clip, the faces of the Obamas are superimposed onto monkey’s bodies, while the song The Lion Sleep Tonight is heard playing in the background.
One user on X (formerly Twitter) wrote that “the clinically insane president of the United States has now made more than 50 posts on his social media platform in the past hour alone. This is one of them”.
“What a disgusting excuse for a human”, another commented.
While another user questioned the support of Trump by black people, following the video.
“There’s absolutely no way that any black Trump supporters can defend this. How do you defend a white man posting images of Black people as monkeys”.
“Trump just posted an incredibly racist photo of the Obama’s faces photoshopped on to the body of apes. Every day is a new rock bottom for this ugly pig”, another one wrote.
Most of Trump recent posts are false claims of election fraud, which he has continued repeating in recent days as the midterms approach.
Recently he also called for Republicans to “take over” the voting process and “nationalise” elections.
On a conservative podcast with former deputy FBI director, Dan Bongino, Trump suggested that “the Republicans should say: ‘We want to take over. We should take over the voting in at least 15 places’”.
Last year, Obama labelled Donald Trump a “wannabe dictator” in a scathing speech about the US President.
He warned that Trump's presidency could be “dangerous” and claimed that he has been acting like a “wannabe dictator running around trying to punish his enemies.”
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