{"id":199431,"date":"2026-02-06T14:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/donald-trump-prompts-fury-after-posting-racist-video-about-barack-and-michelle-obama-us-politics-live-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:37:13","slug":"donald-trump-prompts-fury-after-posting-racist-video-about-barack-and-michelle-obama-us-politics-live-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/donald-trump-prompts-fury-after-posting-racist-video-about-barack-and-michelle-obama-us-politics-live-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump prompts fury after posting racist video about Barack and Michelle Obama \u2013 US politics live – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US president posted a racist video on Truth Social that included disproven allegations about ballot-counting
Trump shares video with racist imagery of Barack and Michelle Obama in late-night posting spree<\/a>
Hello and welcome to today\u2019s live coverage.
Donald Trump<\/strong> went on a massive social media spree overnight that included posting on Truth Social<\/strong> an election conspiracy video that ended with a clip depicting former president Barack Obama<\/strong> and former first lady Michelle Obama<\/strong> as monkeys.
The racist depiction of the Obamas \u2013 the first Black president and first lady in American history \u2013 appears at the end of a one-minute video perpetuating the false and disproven claims that ballot-counting company Dominion Voting Systems helped steal the 2020 presidential election from Trump. The company in 2023 settled for $787.5m <\/a>with Fox News<\/strong> in a landmark defamation lawsuit.
For two seconds, the video shows the smiling faces of the Obamas superimposed on monkeys bobbing to The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
As of Friday morning, the video has been liked more than 2,500 times and reposted more than 1,100 times, as prominent Democrats decried the post.
\u201cDisgusting behavior by the President. Every single Republican must denounce this. Now,\u201d said the press office of California\u2019s governor, Gavin Newsom<\/strong>, a longtime Trump critic and potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate.
\u201cThis is overt racism. Full stop. There\u2019s no \u2018misinterpretation\u2019 and no excuse. This is who he is, who he\u2019s always been, and why he should never be anywhere near power again,\u201d political strategist Adam Parkhomenko posted on X.
The video was just one of more than 60 posts the president made on Truth Social over the course of three hours. In addition to repeating lies about the 2020 presidential election, Trump posted the Trump Accounts<\/strong> Super Bowl ad and calls to add his face to Mount Rushmore<\/strong>.
More to come.
Hundreds of people are protesting in Milan against the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at the Winter Olympics<\/a>.<\/strong>
Carrying banners reading \u201cICE Out\u201d and \u201cFuck ICE\u201d, those criticising the presence of US federal immigration agents are mostly students, gathered in Piazzale Leonardo da Vinci, in front of a building of the Politecnico University in the eastern part of the city.
More protests are planned on Friday afternoon and again on Saturday involving a variety of activists groups, including pro-Palestinian, environmental campaigners and students fighting for affordable housing.
A reminder that the US vice-president, JD Vance, and secretary of state, Marco Rubio, are in Milan for the games. Vance is due to meet the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, later today.
The US state department said last week that several federal agencies, including ICE, will be at the Olympics to help protect visiting Americans.
Donald Trump will begin his day in Washington. At 3pm ET he\u2019ll sign executive orders in the Oval Office. That\u2019s currently not open to the press, but we\u2019ll let you know if that changes.
Later, the president will travel to Palm Beach, Florida, where he\u2019ll meet with the president of Honduras on Saturday. Trump will then attend a Super Bowl watch party on Sunday before travelling back to the White House.
My colleague Taz Ali<\/strong> is covering the latest out of Oman, where talks are ongoing between Iranian and US officials in Muscat, Oman<\/a>,<\/strong> which are thought to be focused on Tehran\u2019s nuclear programme.
Oman\u2019s foreign minister, Sayyid Badr Albusaidi, who is mediating the talks, held separate meetings with Iran\u2019s top diplomat, Abbas Aragchi<\/strong>, and US special envoy Steve Witkoff<\/strong> and Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law, Jared Kushner<\/strong>.
In a statement, the Omani foreign ministry said the meetings so far have focused on preparing the conditions for \u201cresuming diplomatic and technical negotiations\u201d<\/strong>.
Taz notes that Tehran is deeply worried that Trump may still carry out his threat of striking Iran<\/a><\/strong>, not least because of the not-so-subtle comments made by the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, on Thursday.
\u201cWhile these negotiations are taking place, I would remind the Iranian regime that the president has many options at his disposal, aside from diplomacy, as the commander-in-chief of the most powerful military in the history of the world,\u201d she told reporters.
A military escalation is not completely beyond the realms of possibility and could serve Donald Trump\u2019s interests, according to experts, who also note the US mobilisation of a large military force in the region, or an \u201carmada\u201d, as the president called it.
Shannon Watts<\/strong>, gun violence prevention activist and founder of Moms Demand Action, did not mince words in her response to Donald Trump<\/strong> and his racist video depicting Barack Obama<\/strong> and Michelle Obama<\/strong> as monkeys.
\u201cEvery Democrat<\/strong> who votes for the agenda and nominees of this racist, bigoted, misogynistic piece of shit who\u2019s destroying our country is voting for this, too,\u201d Watts posted on X<\/a>.
Melanie D\u2019Arrigo<\/strong>, the executive director of the Campaign for New York Health,\u201d said<\/a>: \u201cThis doesn\u2019t need a lot of explaining \u2013 Donald Trump is a racist pushing a white supremacist agenda. That\u2019s obvious to everyone paying attention.\u201d
Social media influencer and political commentator Harry Sisson<\/strong> said that the \u201cracist and disgusting\u201d video was \u201cbeneath the office of the presidency, like everything that he does\u201d.
\u201cEvery American must condemn this,\u201d he posted on X<\/a>.
When Rosaly Est\u00e9vez \u201cself-deported\u201d from Miami to Havana<\/strong> last November, US immigration officers bid farewell by removing her ankle monitor. The 32-year-old had been told she was about to be detained, so she left with her three-year-old son, Dylan, a US citizen.
Heidy S\u00e1nchez, 43, wasn\u2019t given a choice. She was forcibly removed from Florida last April but, worrying about Cuba\u2019s failing healthcare system, she left her two-year-old daughter, Kaylin, behind with her American husband, Carlos.
\u201cMy little girl was still breastfeeding,\u201d she said. \u201cWaiting to get on the plane, my breasts were swollen, and I kept saying, \u2018Kaylin must be hungry.\u2019\u201d S\u00e1nchez had struggled for years to conceive and Kaylin is her only child.
Neither woman has a criminal record, but both have been caught up in the US government\u2019s push to deport Cuban immigrants. Now they each live in small towns south of the Cuban capital of Havana, passing their days talking to lawyers and family in the US.
\u201cIt\u2019s been brutal,\u201d said Est\u00e9vez. \u201cImagine Dylan hugging his phone every night when he sees his dad. I wouldn\u2019t wish this on any mother.\u201d
As the US government heaps pressure on Cuba<\/a>, cutting off access to its oil shipments, Donald Trump has framed the campaign as an effort to make the island safe for Cuban Americans.
\u201cA lot of people that live in our country are treated very badly by Cuba,\u201d Trump said recently. \u201cThey all voted for me, and we want them to be treated well. We\u2019d like to be able to have them go back to a home in their country, where they haven\u2019t seen their family, their country for many, many decades.\u201d
The condemnation on Donald Trump<\/strong> and the racist video he posted on Truth Social depicting Barack Obama<\/strong> and his wife, Michelle Obama<\/strong>, as monkeys continues to trickle in Friday morning.
Ben Rhodes,<\/strong> who served as deputy national security adviser under Obama, called Trump \u201ca stain on our history\u201d.
\u201cLet it haunt Trump and his racist followers that future Americans will embrace the Obamas as beloved figures while studying him as a stain on our history,\u201d Rhodes said on X<\/a>.
George Conway<\/strong>, the ex-husband of Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign manager Kellyanne Conway<\/strong>, reminded his followers<\/a> that he had been calling Trump out over racism since 2019 and linked to an op ed<\/a> he wrote for the Washington Post titled: Trump Is a Racist President.
The post was still up almost eight hours later, alongside another post of a video that accused the Democratic <\/strong>party<\/strong> of being anti-Black. Continuing on his social media spree in which he posted more than 60 times over the course of three hours, the president has once again begun posting to Truth Social about an hour ago.
Hello and welcome to today\u2019s live coverage.
Donald Trump<\/strong> went on a massive social media spree overnight that included posting on Truth Social<\/strong> an election conspiracy video that ended with a clip depicting former president Barack Obama<\/strong> and former first lady Michelle Obama<\/strong> as monkeys.
The racist depiction of the Obamas \u2013 the first Black president and first lady in American history \u2013 appears at the end of a one-minute video perpetuating the false and disproven claims that ballot-counting company Dominion Voting Systems helped steal the 2020 presidential election from Trump. The company in 2023 settled for $787.5m <\/a>with Fox News<\/strong> in a landmark defamation lawsuit.
For two seconds, the video shows the smiling faces of the Obamas superimposed on monkeys bobbing to The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
As of Friday morning, the video has been liked more than 2,500 times and reposted more than 1,100 times, as prominent Democrats decried the post.
\u201cDisgusting behavior by the President. Every single Republican must denounce this. Now,\u201d said the press office of California\u2019s governor, Gavin Newsom<\/strong>, a longtime Trump critic and potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate.
\u201cThis is overt racism. Full stop. There\u2019s no \u2018misinterpretation\u2019 and no excuse. This is who he is, who he\u2019s always been, and why he should never be anywhere near power again,\u201d political strategist Adam Parkhomenko posted on X.
The video was just one of more than 60 posts the president made on Truth Social over the course of three hours. In addition to repeating lies about the 2020 presidential election, Trump posted the Trump Accounts<\/strong> Super Bowl ad and calls to add his face to Mount Rushmore<\/strong>.
More to come.<\/p>\n

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