Trump Won’t Say Sorry To Obamas For Vile AI Apes Video Posting: “I Didn’t Make A Mistake”

One of the many seedy guiding principles Donald Trump acquired from his mentor Roy Cohn was “admit nothing, deny everything,” and today that approach was evident as the former Apprentice host tried to wiggle out of a vile AI generated video posted on his Truth Social depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.

via: People

Speaking with reporters on Air Force One on Friday, Feb. 6, Trump was asked by a journalist whether or not he would apologize for the video, in which the faces of Barack and Michelle were imposed over the bodies of two apes, as The Tokens' song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" plays in the background.

In response to the journalist's question, the president replied, "No, I didn't make a mistake."

"I mean I look at a lot of thousands of things. I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine," Trump continued. "I guess it was a take off on The Lion King and certainly it was a very strong post in terms of voter fraud." After Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, Trump has repeatedly made debunked claims that the election was stolen from him.

"Nobody knew that that was in the end. If they would have seen it and probably they would have had the sense to take it down," he said.

On Friday morning, though, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended Trump's post in a statement shared with PEOPLE. "This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from The Lion King." Leavitt wrote. "Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public."

The post was later removed; a White House official said in a statement to PEOPLE: "A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down." PEOPLE sought further information about the staffer's identity and whether they are still employed with the White House.

Multiple Republican politicians have called on Trump to apologize for posting the video, including Sen. Tim Scott, who said that he was "praying" that the video was "fake," because it was "the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House" in a post to his X account.

Scott, who endorsed Trump for president in 2024, concluded his post by urging Trump to remove the video.

Following Scott's criticism of the video, Trump said that he spoke with Scott. "He was great. Tim is a great guy," Trump said. "He understood that 100%."

The president's post advances a longstanding racist trope used by slave traders and segregationists to dehumanize Black people and justify their mistreatment.

The post comes years after Trump promoted false claims that the 44th president, who was born in Hawaii, was actually born in Kenya and was constitutionally ineligible to serve. Trump also repeatedly demanded that his predecessor produce birth records and prove he was a "natural-born citizen," a Constitutional requirement to serve as president.

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Trump has never been one to take accountability for anything he has done, so why would anyone expect a man who has always pushed racist ideologies to apologize now? This is the same man who started the Obama birther lies, and who's family would deny black people from renting space in their buildings.

He also took out a full page ad in the New York Times to push for the Central Park Five to be executed. Before he was elected as the 47th president he said that Haitians were eating cats and dogs, and the majority of his supporters voted for him anyway.

Trump has shown time and time again that he's an evil, vile, soulless human being who's also a racist that shits himself during press conferences.

The Obama's live rent free is his rotten mind, and regardless of how you feel about the Obama's politically, he, as well as his wife Melanoma will never have the integrity, the class, or the social intelligence of Barack and Michelle Obama.

So the orange orangutan with borderline personality disorder can continue to post his little videos and memes as a way to distract from the fact that your name is mentioned in the Epstein files more times than Harry Potter's name is mentioned in all seven books. Those of us that are unplugged from the Matrix knows the truth.