Regarding the video that portrays him as a monkey, the former US president stated that “decorum, sense of decency and respect for the office” had been lost.
Numa to American YouTuber and podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen, published on Saturday, Barack Obama commented for the first time on the video created by Donald Trump in which the former American president and his wife, Michelle Obama, appear portrayed as monkeys. Obama condemned the behavior and called it “deeply troubling.”
“The majority of the American people consider this deeply worrying behavior“, states asked about how the “discourse regression”, suggested by Brian Tyler Cohen, was arrived at.
“It is true that it attracts attention. What is true is that it seems no there is shame in this among people who used toI thought it was necessary to have some kind of decorum, sense of decency and respect for the position. That has already been lost”, concluded the former US president.
In the video, created by Donald Trump and shared on February 6 on the networkand social Truth Social, are made allegations about the during the 2020 presidential elections. In the end, to the sound of music The Lion Sleeps Tonight, an image of Michelle and Barack Obama with their faces on the bodies of two monkeys.
Controversy and criticism arrived just hours after the video was published, coming from both the Democratic and Republican wings. Republican senator from South Carolina, considered that Trump’s publication was “the most racist thing” that he has seen leave the White House.
At Casa Branca denied that it was a racist attack. A press secretary for the Trump administration, Karoline Leavitt, stated that the video was a “meme and Internet that represents President Trump as the king of the jungle and Democrats like characters from the Lion King.”
At a press conference, Trump followed the same line and denied the accusations. “I didn’t make a mistake“, he replied when asked if he would apologize for the publication.
The video ended up being deleted around 5pm on the same day of publication. The White House held an internal employee responsible for the sharing the publication.
