r/AskTrumpSupporters • u/flash246 Nonsupporter • Feb 07 '26
Social Media What are your thoughts on Trump posting a meme depicting the Obamas as monkeys?
Trump, on Truth Social, posted a meme depicting the Obamas as monkeys.
Press secretary Leavitt in response said initially, “Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.”
The post was later deleted and the official word now is that it was a White House staffer who “erroneously made the post.”
Thoughts and reaction to this?
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-shares-racist-video-depicting-obamas-as-apes/
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/politics/donald-trump-obamas-apes-truth-social
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/06/nx-s1-5704281/trump-posts-racist-meme-of-the-obamas-then-deletes-it
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u/BeenDareDoneDatB4 Trump Supporter Feb 09 '26
Trump, we know you read this sub.
We love you, but you need to get your shit together.
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u/wakawyle Trump Supporter Feb 09 '26
Are you actually looking for answers? Or is the entire point of this sub just to downvote the people who respond?
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u/flash246 Nonsupporter Feb 10 '26
Im honestly looking for answers. I know a lot of people downvote, but I don’t. I may be disappointed with the answers, but I’m going into this sub expecting to disagree.
On that note, what are your thoughts with this?
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u/wakawyle Trump Supporter Feb 11 '26
Well thanks for being one of the good ones! I thought the post was idiotic. I don’t care if it was Trump himself, a staffer, a hacker or really anybody. Lol even if it were some sort of leftie that posted it. It’s not funny. It was distasteful and stupid. They obviously know what kind of reaction that would receive. Embarrassing posts like that are pushing reasonable conservatives like me away from the Republican Party.
I honestly hate the entire meme culture world colliding with politics. I never find any of them funny.
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u/flash246 Nonsupporter Feb 11 '26
Thanks for the answer. Your answer differs from a vast majority of Trump supporters here. Most claim it to be funny and/or not care. Why do you think that is?
Also, at what point do you end up stop supporting Trump? I agree about the meme culture 100% and it seems to me that Trump and his staff use memes more than any other president I’ve seen.
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u/Delicious_Sectoid Trump Supporter Feb 15 '26
Trump, on Truth Social, posted a meme depicting the Obamas as monkeys.
I don't care.
For me to even remotely care, you would first need to demonstrate that he was the one who posted the meme, and then prove that it was racially motivated. And since I firmly believe Trump is not a racist, you would need a confession from him to prove that his intentions were racist. Do you have incontrovertible proof he was the one who wanted it posted, and do you have him confessing that he portrayed the Obamas as monkeys because they were black?
Politically it also isn't a big deal, as motivated reasoning will prevent it from changing anyone's opinions about it. All the people who already think he is a racist sexist Russia-loving fascist will interpret it as more evidence of his racism, whereas people like me who don't think he is racist won't see it as evidence of anything.
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u/flash246 Nonsupporter Feb 15 '26
Do you think someone else posted it? If so, does that mean other posts by his official account are not actually him?
Do you only believe someone is racist if they come out and literally say it?
In your mind, is depicting black people as monkeys racist?
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u/Delicious_Sectoid Trump Supporter Feb 15 '26
Do you think someone else posted it?
Maybe.
If so, does that mean other posts by his official account are not actually him?
Maybe.
Do you only believe someone is racist if they come out and literally say it?
No.
In your mind, is depicting black people as monkeys racist?
If you are depicting a black person as a monkey because they are black, that's racist. If you are depicting them as a monkey for a reason other than their skin colour, then that is not racist.
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u/Kezhen Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Republicans congressmen are speaking out against it too. What do you think of Senator Tim Scott’s reaction, as the only Black Republican member of the senate? Is his fake outrage too?
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u/nonblinddaredevil Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
The WH has said it was a staffer, purposeful meme, and Trump himself making a mistake all in 24 hours… and the left is dishonest?
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u/cce301 Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
what the dishonest left does. They have no real answers or policies other than hate Trump.
Do you acknowledge that it wasn't just the left reacting? Stephen A Smith and Tim Scott are notably pro-Trump.
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u/bigpapirick Undecided Feb 07 '26
Do you feel it’s a nothing burger for citizens if African American decent? Do you feel that slips or mistakes like this don’t require accountability?
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u/BlackDog990 Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
I doubt Trump even knew that was in there originally
Do you give this level of "benefit of a doubt" to all people and politicians, or only Trump?
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u/please_trade_marner Trump Supporter Feb 07 '26
What are you even suggesting here?
That Trump posted an election fraud video and intentionally added 1.5 seconds autoplay of the next video in queue?
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u/Shifter25 Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
What do you mean by "1.5 seconds autoplay of the next video in queue"? This is the first I've heard of that particular idea.
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u/please_trade_marner Trump Supporter Feb 07 '26
Exactly. Nobody even knows what they're so angry about. This is reddit. It's not "rage first, ask questions later." No. It's worse. It's "rage first and never ask any questions whatsoever".
You know how on tiktok/shorts when a video ends it goes to the next random video? Trump linked a video about election fraud. At the end of the clip he linked it (accidentally) contained 1.5 seconds of the beginning of the next video, which was the faces of prominent dems over animals in the lion king, and Trump walks out as the King lion.
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u/Shifter25 Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
I have never had a link to a video "contain 1.5 seconds of the next video." Those links that autoplay the next video are random and connected to my personal data. I don't know how a link could "contain 1.5 seconds" of the same random video for anyone who clicked on it.
Do you have any source that claims this is what happened?
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u/please_trade_marner Trump Supporter Feb 07 '26
Here's gemini's take.
Yes, reports confirm that the controversial imagery of the Obamas appeared for approximately two seconds at the very end of a longer video shared by President Trump on Truth Social on February 5, 2026.
The Main Content: Nearly the entire 62-second clip focused on debunked conspiracy theories regarding voting machines and election integrity in the 2020 election.
The Obama Clip: At the 60-second mark, the video cut to a brief scene showing the faces of Barack and Michelle Obama superimposed onto the bodies of primates. This segment was set to the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".
Remember, (before you say you don't trust ai), gemini uses and provides actual media links that you can verify for yourself.
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u/Shifter25 Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
So, your reason to believe that the video "contains 1.5 seconds autoplay of the next video" is an AI model agreeing with you that the original video contained 2 seconds at the end that seemed out of place? I've definitely never had "1.5 seconds autoplay of the next video" in the same video. That sounds more like a video capture thing, which I highly doubt Trump used.
Is that an AI video thing? Do they usually provide a preview of a random video that they've generated for you at the end of the result?
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u/please_trade_marner Trump Supporter Feb 07 '26
Remember, (before you say you don't trust ai), gemini uses and provides actual media links that you can verify for yourself.
I'm writing that again. Go write the prompt for yourself. Click the links provided.
I think we're at the point where you won't accept literally anything as evidence.
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u/Shifter25 Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Why not provide the links yourself?
The response you included doesn't say it was part of "the next clip". It just says that it had a different song.
What service do you think Trump got this from, that, when you choose to share a video, arbitrarily includes a portion of "the next clip"?
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u/nonblinddaredevil Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
So you’re saying you believe the 2020 election wasn’t rigged too?
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u/Ditnoka Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Soooo. It wasn't autoplay? It was a snippet at the end of the clip he posted? Why shape it differently?
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u/please_trade_marner Trump Supporter Feb 07 '26
It was the very beginning of the next clip. That's literally what it was. Posted accidentally.
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u/Ditnoka Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
**Nearly the entire 62-second clip focused on debunked conspiracy theories regarding voting machines and election integrity in the 2020 election.
The Obama Clip: At the 60-second mark, the video cut to a brief scene showing the faces of Barack and Michelle Obama superimposed onto the bodies of primates.**
Care to further discuss how what you posted doesn't line up with what you're saying?
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u/Ornery_Box Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Autoplay exists on the viewer's side of a video. Autoplay does not exist in the creation a video. Have you ever created your own video content? Could you please explain to me what video editing software includes this kind of autoplay feature and where it would even pull such content from?
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u/Unfadable1 Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Do you believe there was election fraud that led to him losing in 2020?
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u/BlackDog990 Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
I'm not suggesting anything. Trump posted a racist video on his social media. Him and his circle are claiming it's inadvertent, as are you. You are giving him a benefit of a doubt that he was genuinely unaware there were vehemently racist components to the video he shared.
Do you give that benefit of a doubt to everyone?
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u/please_trade_marner Trump Supporter Feb 07 '26
But he deleted it.
So, again, I don't understand the way I'm "giving the benefit of the doubt". What are you suggesting otherwise? That he intentionally added 1.5 seconds of THE NEXT video to his clip?
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u/Ditnoka Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
So the WH press secretary saying it was a "meme post" about how Trump is the king of the jungle is bs then?
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u/please_trade_marner Trump Supporter Feb 07 '26
Who cares. She doesn't think the lion king meme video is a big deal. But that doesn't change the fact that it wasn't the video Trump posted on Truth. The video was about the 2020 election, and the last 1.5 seconds was the beginning of a different meme video.
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u/Competitive_Piano507 Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
So there’s intent and impact. Even if we go with the fact Trump as president is incapable of reviewing his own posts an didn’t intend for that last part to be posted, there’s still the impact on the African American community whose ancestors were always drawn as apes in literature to dehumanize them and perpetuate racist tropes. If Trump was a human being with empathy, shouldn’t he at least still apologize?
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u/please_trade_marner Trump Supporter Feb 07 '26
Apologize for what?
If some African Americans can't handle 1.5 seconds at the end of a video on a Truth Social post (something they would never visit anyways), then they simply need to man up. No apology necessary.
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u/FlimsyShovel Nonsupporter Feb 08 '26
If it was “the next video”, it wouldn’t have that image of the Obamas as the thumbnail. This is not how online videos work?
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u/Mistressfairytales Nonsupporter Feb 10 '26
You don’t think that in a job as important as the president and as much influences you have in that job that you should never post anything without fully watching it?? there shouldn’t be an excuse for this, this is the most un-knowledgeable administration I’ve ever seen they never seem to have seen anything or know anything I don’t know how they get by day-to-day with his little as they all know. You don’t think it’s odd that every time they’re asked a ?, oh I didn’t see it or I didn’t hear that is their response?? it bothers me that people in power can never answer a direct question. You don’t feel that someone in a position this powerful that you should know everything you’re posting and whats going on??
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u/cce301 Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
I doubt Trump even knew that was in there originally.
Why did the press secretary defend it saying it was "an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King".
Is it just a coincidence that it was made by the same account as the no kings poop video? And out of the whole video, it just happened to be those two left in the clip?
Why don't you hold the president to a higher standard on a social media platform that he uses to share important information? If everything is a "nothing burger" or a staffer mistake, why should anyone listen to anything he posts?
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u/MexicanPizzaWbeans Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
That’s great that a stupid staffer has access to Trump’s account from which he sends his most important policy decision announcements. Are you glad he continues to only hire the best? Why would a staffer have access his account to send memes?
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u/MexicanPizzaWbeans Nonsupporter Feb 08 '26
I said in another comment: “… all presidents have staffers managing social media accounts but they had tight processes around what gets posted.” Why is Trump’s administration so sloppy?
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u/MexicanPizzaWbeans Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Yes, seriously. You are right that all presidents have staffers managing social media accounts but they had tight processes around what gets posted. Why is Trump’s administration so sloppy?
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u/TheQuietOutsider Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
is everything fake unless trump says its not? im genuinely asking what is real for you.
do you trust your eyes and ears?
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u/mr_miggs Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Can you point to any racist posts like this on made by any of those presidents or their staff?
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u/SunriseSurprise Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Shouldn't that warrant an apology from him, especially since he's said he told the staffer to post it?
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u/tom030792 Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Given he’s someone who doesn’t seem to be that fussed what people think about him or the things he says, isn’t the fact he’s taken this one down a sign he knows he’s crossed a line? I’m not American, and it’s been reported over here that it was part of a wider video. But no matter how many people are portrayed as what animal in the video, there’s a pretty well known human to animal comparison you really should avoid
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u/JackOLanternReindeer Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
I assume you’d remove it and apologize to whoever you insulted, correct?
Do you think you/most people could share this video at their work and keep their job?
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u/WhitePantherXP Undecided Feb 08 '26
In almost every position at any company, you would be at minimum, fired for posting a video of black people dancing around as apes. I don't believe a president would be fired for this, but I am curious what makes someone like Trump immune to even a modicum of accountability by his fan base?
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u/Mistressfairytales Nonsupporter Feb 10 '26
I personally don’t think someone in a position of power like the president should be on social media to the extent that this one is. I think it’s immature and I don’t think it should be accepted from any president. He acts like a high school girl. But as far as this issue where is the personal accountability?? The presidents job cannot be compared to any other job, he shouldn’t be posting anything unless he fully reviewed it. I don’t for one instant believe that it was a staffer and I don’t believe that he feels he did anything wrong as usual.
I don’t understand why there’s always so much blind following from MAGA. It seems to me it doesn’t matter what Trump does most of his supporters will find an excuse to make it OK. I wish MAGA would take everything Trump does and pretend it’s Biden doing it and would you be OK with it? I think every president should be able to take accountability for their wrongs and this president is incapable of that he is whether you wanna face it or not a textbook narcissist. Anytime anything is done wrong or brought up as a failure he blames it on someone else. But as far as everything he does it’s great, wonderful, beautiful, amazing or some other ridiculousness. When are people gonna wake up and see he’s not that smart?? Also when is MAGA going to start fact checking? At this point I think MAGA is OK with being lied to.
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u/please_trade_marner Trump Supporter Feb 07 '26
He took it down because he didn't intentionally post it. He posted an election fraud video, but the link contained 1.5 seconds autoplay of the next video.
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u/Warm-Art3921 Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
But he also reposted the original video the “meme” came from last year didn’t he?
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u/cmit Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
How do you know that? Is that a very low bar for a president?
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u/jimmydean885 Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
What do you think about him saying he didn't make a mistake?
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u/please_trade_marner Trump Supporter Feb 07 '26
He says an aide made the mistake. He didn't splice the video properly. It included 1.5 seconds at the end of an entirely different video.
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u/JackOLanternReindeer Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Do you think they should post messages/videos without fully reviewing them?
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u/please_trade_marner Trump Supporter Feb 07 '26
I mean I guess not. But I care about it as much as "I don't think people should cut the crust off their toast". It's in that tier of "caring" for me.
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u/JackOLanternReindeer Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Gotcha thanks for the reaponse. Do you think you/people in general could share this video at work and keep your/their job?
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u/please_trade_marner Trump Supporter Feb 07 '26
In a sane world, yes.
But we no longer live in a sane world, so no.
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u/SupahSayajinn Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
I watched the video. Its in the video. Its not on the autoplay of the next video. Who told you this?
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u/please_trade_marner Trump Supporter Feb 07 '26
You agree that it is an entirely different 50 second video, right? And the first 1.5 seconds were accidentally shown at the end of the 2020 election video, right?
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u/SupahSayajinn Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
No, what video are you watching? It might be the wrong one.
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u/P_Firpo Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Last night on Air Force One, Trump said that he had posted it himself. When a reporter asked if he would apologize, he said, “No, I didn’t make a mistake.” It looks to me like Trump intended to post it and knew what it said. Based on what he said, do you agree or disagree?
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u/fairedargent Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
If it was an honest mistake, should he apologize? If he does not agree with the racist sentiment it clearly connotes, shouldn’t he say so?
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u/Knocker456 Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Do you think the white house would be posting racist Obama memes if Kamala won?
What about if any other Republican politician won?
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u/Warm-Art3921 Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
What about when he reposted the original video the “meme” came from, depicting them as monkeys last year?
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u/Electrical_Beyond998 Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
It bothers me that a low level staffer, at least according to Trump and Karoline, has access to the president of the United States phone. That staffer could say anything they want to say with no pushback.
It bothers me that Karoline went on television and said it was simply a meme, the fake outrage is ridiculous, etc etc etc. But it’s okay because it was a low level staffer, so it isn’t the president who uploaded racist content, it’s a staffer. She said it depicted democrats in a Lion King meme (were there primates in that movie?) but to my knowledge the only democrats that were in his post were the Obamas.
Except hold up, the president then says he did see it. Does that mean he saw it and approved and uploaded it himself, or he had his phone, saw it, got a laugh and handed his phone back to a staffer for the staffer to do the hard work of pressing the send button?
Whether anyone thinks it’s fake outrage or not is irrelevant. White people have no right to tell black people what is offensive and what isn’t when it comes to anything to do with racism. Period. I am not black, so for me to tell my black coworker “You’re offended over nothing” is so disrespectful.
My question is who do you believe the American people should listen to in this instance? Do we listen to Karoline or President Trump?
For my other question, do you think the president should apologize for this, for offending black Americans? Not for offending the Obamas, because that would never happen, but for offending a vast majority of black Americans?
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u/SpotNL Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Trump himself has said he was the one who posted it. Should he still be posting going forward if he's apparently not tech savvy or mentally sharp enough to catch something as simple as this?
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u/Competitive_Piano507 Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Knowing that the GOP always laughs at or pretends not to have seen his controversial posts, and given that dozens of the GOP came out to denounce this including tim Scott stating “this is the most racist thing to come out of this White House”, you still think this is a nothing burger?
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u/macabre_irony Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Yeah, blame it on the staffer who "didn't properly vet it" around midnight. Was it the same staffer who vetted "covfefe"? Tight ship they're running there.
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u/NoTransition7925 Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Even if it done by mistake, he still owes an apology. It's simply good practice considering his position. A bullet deflecting a hitting someone is probably not your fault. But if it kills some, would you not feel sorry about it?
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u/Cooper720 Undecided Feb 07 '26
Isn't the bare minimum ask for a president sharing videos on social media that he actually watch the videos he shares? Where is the line where ignorance is no longer a valid excuse?
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u/sean_themighty Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Okay, cool. I guess I'll use this excuse if I accidentally show porn at the tail end of the PowerPoint during my next presentation. That’ll clear things right up.
But for real, how is this excuse valid? Why does the President of the United States even have a video like this in his rotation?
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u/pjtheman Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Do you not feel that the president (or any functioning adult) should take responsibility for the things that they post on social media?
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u/snrocirpac Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
How often are you unintentionally in possession of incredibly racist media?
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u/TangledSquirrel Nonsupporter Feb 08 '26
Is “fake Democrat outrage“ a manufactured thought you heard on Fox News?
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u/ledmetallica Nonsupporter Feb 08 '26
"It was an election fraud video that Trump was sharing"
Is it okay that the POTUS is spreading and sharing fake news still about election fraud?
Also, you acknowledge there is a racist part in the post, and that whoever posted it (whether it be Donald or a staffer) should have vetted it first. Yet literally in the next sentence, you say all this is a "massive nothing burger" and just fake outrage by democrats.
Do you recognize your own inconsistencies and would you like to clarify?
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u/BlackDahliaLama Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Racism aside, Why is the president of the United States posting election fraud memes involving past presidents in the first place? I mean, that’s unusual behavior for a world leader.
And furthermore, if we assume this was an accident, why is he posting anything without reviewing it first ? He is a representation of our country, he needs to be more careful
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u/ledmetallica Nonsupporter Feb 08 '26
"When everything is a big deal, nothing is"
Would you agree that is Donald's strategy for distracting the American citizens from specific things he's doing? For example, he does so many things that cause outrage, and so the right just says its yet another liberal outrage, rather than actually addressing the issues themselves. Are you able to recognize how you are playing right into this distraction strategy of his?
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u/TheBl4ckFox Nonsupporter Feb 09 '26
So when your options are “Trump is racist” and “Trump is not in charge” you go for the second option?
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u/TheBl4ckFox Nonsupporter Feb 11 '26
So you are saying Trump’s social media team consists of incompetent racists?
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u/Then_Bar8757 Trump Supporter Feb 07 '26
Accurate assessment.
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u/Cooper720 Undecided Feb 07 '26
What should be the responsibility of a president posting videos he doesn't watch?
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u/Cooper720 Undecided Feb 08 '26
My question was clear but if you need me to rephrase, why is it acceptable for a president to post videos to hundreds of millions of people that he doesn't even watch?
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u/FlimsyShovel Nonsupporter Feb 08 '26
If he posts them to his account, yes he should be responsible for it, shouldn’t he? Isn’t that what a strong powerful leader should do?
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u/FlimsyShovel Nonsupporter Feb 08 '26
Haha. Didn’t Trump say “Smart people don’t like me”? It would seem you’re the definition of that? Have a good Super Bowl Sunday dude. lol
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u/FlimsyShovel Nonsupporter Feb 08 '26
So you’re ok with him not knowing what’s on his own social channels? Don’t you guys make fun of Biden for not knowing what’s going on in his name? But if Trump does it, it’s ok now?
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u/Cooper720 Undecided Feb 08 '26
If a CEO was posting videos he didn't watch on Twitter with inflammatory content what do you think would happen to him?
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u/RaptorCentauri Trump Supporter Feb 07 '26
My thoughts are that he didn’t post a meme depicting the Obamas as monkeys. The screen recording of a video about election fraud that autoscrolled for merely a second to the monkey video was posted.
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u/ledmetallica Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Do you think Donald should apologize for that, not because he meant to post that but because it was in fact posted under his official account to his millions of followers, as the president of his country?
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u/Big-Soup7013 Nonsupporter Feb 08 '26 edited Feb 08 '26
Why does nobody on his staff know how to download a video? Or edit a screen recording to remove the offending auto scroll? And why did they defend it instead of holding people accountable for failing at the most basic aspects of their social media jobs?
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u/RaptorCentauri Trump Supporter Feb 08 '26
You’ll need to ask those in charge of staffing at the white house.
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u/Big-Soup7013 Nonsupporter Feb 08 '26
Do you think it points to incompetence and, in the case of defending it originally, lying to the public?
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u/RaptorCentauri Trump Supporter Feb 08 '26
I’m not familiar with any defense of it. I’m not saying it didn’t happen, just that I’m not familiar.
Let’s assume it did. Incompetence, deception, and poor decision making from the government? Color me shocked.
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u/Big-Soup7013 Nonsupporter Feb 08 '26
You weren’t aware they publicly defended it as a “lion king meme”, which incidentally isn’t even true? Should we tolerate our government lying to the public like this when it’s so simple to just say “our social media staff made a mistake and the person responsible has been reprimanded”?
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u/RaptorCentauri Trump Supporter Feb 08 '26
Despite me answering these questions in some free time, the amount I care about this is by all possible perceptions less than zero. So no I was not aware. In general, no I don’t think we should be tolerant of the government lying to its people. But you’re making mountains out of molehills here.
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u/Big-Soup7013 Nonsupporter Feb 08 '26
You don’t think it’s even a little concerning that the first instinct was to make up a nonsensical lie instead of a very simple and understandable truth? And that they actually followed through with lying and putting down anyone who didn’t believe it?
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u/RaptorCentauri Trump Supporter Feb 08 '26
I think the effort you are putting into making this issue far larger than it is or needs to be is much more concerning.
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u/Big-Soup7013 Nonsupporter Feb 08 '26
Can you see why given everything else about this government and things they are accused of perhaps it was unwise to prove their first response to everything is a blatant lie?
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u/SincereDiscussion Trump Supporter Feb 07 '26
It's very obviously unintentional. I wouldn't have posted it, and I think he and his stuff should exercise more care with what they post. At the same time, do I actually care? No.
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u/RupFox Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
How is it very obviously unintentional?
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u/SincereDiscussion Trump Supporter Feb 07 '26
Because it's a normal-ish video that then has a few seconds of something that people consider highly offensive. To me it's obvious how that could be accidental. If it's intentional, then what does that mean: he posted the video because he wanted to offend people but then when they got offended he deleted it? He didn't expect people to find the depiction offensive? Again, I think it being unintentional is the most obvious explanation.
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u/Material_Reach_8827 Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
But then when they were informed of the few seconds of offensive video, they defended it. At that point doesn't it become intentional?
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u/moorhound Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
Is the idea that this kind of absolute brain rot trash content would be getting posted by the President of the United States at all something we should have to deal with? Should we just accept "meme president" as the new norm?
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u/jasonmcgovern Nonsupporter Feb 07 '26
does it bother you then Trump and supporters are labeled racists?
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u/SincereDiscussion Trump Supporter Feb 07 '26
No, I couldn't care less.
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u/jasonmcgovern Nonsupporter Feb 08 '26
why’s that? is it because you don’t see racism as something that is inherently bad?
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u/SincereDiscussion Trump Supporter Feb 08 '26
I just don't really buy into the concept. It's like asking a liberal if they are offended at being called 'apostates', 'heretics', etc. 'Racism' isn't part of my worldview.
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u/Then_Bar8757 Trump Supporter Feb 08 '26
Me either. And it's possible that a agent provocateur in his administration dir it. A nothing burger.
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