‘A stain on our history’: outrage after Trump shares racist video about Obamas as White House attempts to brush off the post – live

Former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes slams Trump for posting racist video on Truth Social; Karoline Leavitt says criticism is ‘fake outrage’Trump shares video with racist imagery of Barack and Michelle Obama in late-night posting spreeMy colleague Richard Luscombe notes that the White House has tried to brush off the outrage caused by Donald Trump reposting a racist video that depicts Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.In a statement sent to the Guardian, Karoline Leavitt, linked to a post on X last October by a separate rightwing account, which features a 55-second video from which the Obama clip appears to have been taken. It begins with the Obamas depicted as apes, later shows Biden’s head superimposed on a monkey body and other prominent Democrats depicted as other animals, while Trump is shown as a male lion. Continue reading...