Obama Responds To Trump Sharing Racist Ai Video Depicting Him As An Ape - Beritaja

Former President Barack Obama addresses the Obama Foundation's 2024 Democracy Forum connected Dec. 05, 2024 successful Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson/Getty Images

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Former President Barack Obama has responded to the racist video posted by President Donald Trump's societal media relationship earlier this month.

During an question and reply pinch YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen, Obama said galore Americans "find this behaviour profoundly troubling."

"There doesn't look to beryllium immoderate shame about this among group who utilized to consciousness for illustration you had to person immoderate benignant of decorum and a consciousness of propriety and respect for the office," Obama said successful the interview, which was posted connected YouTube Saturday.

"There's this benignant of comedian show that's happening successful societal media and connected television," Obama added, describing overmuch of the sound about Trump's presidency arsenic a "distraction".

Obama's consequence follows outrage complete the video, which depicted Obama and erstwhile first woman Michelle Obama arsenic apes. White House property caput Karoline Leavitt defended the clip, saying "please extremity the clone outrage." Trump refused to apologize for the societal media post, telling reporters "I didn't make a mistake" aboard Air Force One.

The video, which was posted astatine the opening of Black History Month, has since been deleted. The White House blamed a staffer for "erroneously" posting the video clip.

Obama besides shared his thoughts connected the migration crackdown and protests successful Minnesota and elsewhere about the country, telling Cohen they person near a bully number of American group saying "we're going to unrecorded up to those values that we opportunity we judge in."

"It is important for america to admit the unprecedented quality of what ICE was doing successful Minneapolis, St. Paul, the measurement that national agents, ICE agents were being deployed, without immoderate clear guidelines, training, pulling group retired of their homes, utilizing five-year-olds to effort to bait their parents, each the worldly that we saw, teargassing crowds simply who were opinionated there, not breaking immoderate laws," the 44th president said.

Obama called the sidesplitting of Alex Pretti successful Minneapolis past period "a heartbreaking tragedy" and said it was "a wake-up telephone to each American, sloppy of party, that galore of our halfway values arsenic a federation are progressively nether assault."

He besides said that the Trump management has fixed explanations for the deaths of Pretti and Renee Good, a 37-year-old female killed by an migration agent, "that aren't informed by immoderate superior investigation."