00:00President Donald Trump has sparked outrage over a video he posted late Thursday night and then
00:05deleted on Friday morning that mocked former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle
00:09Obama as animated apes. A White House official on Background told The Hollywood Reporter on Friday,
00:16a White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down. When it was still on the
00:21Truth social site, the 62-second video ended by depicting Obama and the former first lady
00:26as apes dancing to the lion sleeps tonight from The Lion King. The video itself discussed false
00:31election fraud claims surrounding the 2020 presidential election, which Trump lost to
00:36Joe Biden. That includes conspiracy theories around Dominion Voting Systems as a manufacturer
00:41of voting equipment, which in turn led to Fox Corporation settling a high-profile defamation
00:46case for $787 million with the ballot counting company in 2023. Before it was deleted,
00:52the Truth social video generated widespread backlash online. The press office for California Governor
00:57Gavin Newsom posted on X, disgusting behavior by the president. Every single Republican must denounce
01:04this now. Former Obama advisor Ben Rhodes said, let it haunt Trump and his racist followers that
01:10future Americans will embrace the Obamas as beloved figures while studying him as a stain on our history.
01:16Elsewhere, South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott wrote, praying it was fake because it's the most
01:21racist thing I've seen out of this White House. The president should remove it.
01:25For more on this story, go to THR.com. This is The Hollywood Reporter News.
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