The president’s racism is making his party antsy.
Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump’s racism is making his party antsy.
What happened? Overnight, Trump posted a racist, 62-second video to his personal Truth Social feed depicting Barack and Michelle Obama’s faces superimposed on apes.
The post has since been deleted — and attributed, unconvincingly, to an errant staffer — after a quick bipartisan backlash, but only after the White House initially brushed it off as “an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King.” (There are, as some observers have noted, no apes in the beloved children’s movie The Lion King.)
How have Republicans responded? Much more vocally than usual.
