White House takes down Trump's racist video depicting Obamas as apes amid outrage

A video posted on Donald Trump’s social media account, showing Democratic former president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes, was deleted on Friday after outrage that the US president’s post used racist imagery historically employed to dehumanise people of African descent.

According to Reuters, a White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “A White House staffer erroneously made the post”, adding, "It has been taken down.”

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