Video with racist imagery of Obamas taken down from Trump’s social media after Democratic outrage

Only a smattering of Republicans spoke out about clip in which Obamas’ faces were superimposed on bodies of apesUS politics live – latest updatesTop Democrats erupted with fury on Friday and challenged more Republicans to respond to Donald Trump posting a racist video that depicts Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.The clip appeared during one of the 79-year-old US president’s increasingly frequent late-night posting sprees to his Truth Social account, and shows the laughing faces of the former president and first lady superimposed on the bodies of primates in a jungle setting, bobbing to the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Continue reading...