As one colleague put it, Dear Leader “has no bottom. And the off-the-charts hypocrisy of his Evangelical Christian supporters. Just wow.” It’s no secret tRump is a racist just like his father. He hates the Obamas for four main reasons: 1) they’re Black, 2) they’re well-educated and successful, 3) Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, and 4) Obama’s 2011 roast of tRump. True to form, Trump refuses to apologize for video with racist imagery of Obamas posted on his social media (7.2.26).

Related articles:

Trump posted something blatantly racist? What a surprise (7.2.26)

Trump’s toxic, racist video surpasses previous levels of debasement (6.2.26)

Racial views of Donald Trump – There’s even a Wikipedia entry that documents Dear Leader’s racist statements.

A Definitive List of Donald Trump’s Racist Statements – From 2018. The updated list is exponentially longer.

It’s About Hate: Approval of Donald Trump, Racism, Xenophobia and Support for Political Violence – This is a research report from 2022. Psst: Don’t tell Dear Leader or his right-hand MAGAt, Stephen “Pee-wee German” Miller, that it’s on a US government website! (I’ve saved it just in case.)

I view his regime as the last gasp of white supremacy. May it be so. The champagne is chilling.

Peace, MAA

Here’s what Mitch Jackson had to say about this disgusting post in an Uncensored Objection Substack essay followed by Heather Cox Richardson’s 6 February 2026 post on her Letters from an American Substack account.

This Is Not Normal. And Silence Is Complicity.

Mitch Jackson
Feb 6

It’s been a long week. I was exhausted and ready to keep my head down until I saw what Trump posted about the Obamas on his platform. The moment I saw it, I felt sick. What he shared was vile and disgusting, and the fact that it stayed up for 12 hours before being removed is a failure, not a footnote.

Here’s just part of the video (hit the play button):

Let me be absolutely clear. This is not normal. This is not humor. This is not a meme. This is deliberate degradation, and it demands a clear, direct, and unequivocal apology. Anyone pretending this is acceptable is either lying to you or has abandoned basic standards of decency.

Like she always does, the White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, defended Trump and the video by dismissing the backlash as “fake outrage” and describing the brief racist clip, as part of an “internet meme video.” That was her public explanation before the video was taken down and the White House later said it had been posted in error by a staff member. Those are the facts. The rest is spin.

We all know exactly who posted this. It went up shortly before midnight last night, and it came from Trump’s account. Now, after the backlash, he is claiming someone else posted the video. That is bullshit. And even if it were true, it exposes something just as disturbing: what kind of culture, what kind of racist environment exists inside the White House where anyone would think it is acceptable to post something like this on the account of the sitting president. That is not an excuse. It is an indictment.

I know every single one of my 7,500 subscribers feel the same anger and disgust I do. But too many Americans who will be voting in the midterms haven’t seen the video. They have no idea this even happened. And that’s dangerous.

Please share the video that Trump posted. Educate them on who Trump is and what is happening in plain sight, because ignoring this behavior only gives it permission to continue.

And while we’re all here, this is one of my favorite Oval Office portraits of the Obama family taken in 2011.

That’s it. Signing off, and wishing you an enjoyable Super Bowl weekend.

Mitch Jackson, Esq.

Heather Cox Richardson

Late last night, President Donald J. Trump’s social media account posted a video full of debunked claims about the 2020 presidential election that included an image of former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama with their heads attached to the bodies of apes.

Predictably, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt derided the “fake outrage” over the image, but as Tim Grieve of NOTUS explained, when Republican senators Tim Scott of South Carolina, Pete Ricketts of Nebraska, and Roger Wicker of Mississippi called out the racism behind the post, the president deleted the video and a White House official said that a “staffer erroneously made the post,” as if somehow a staffer could post random racist videos from the president’s account in the middle of the night. As soon as they could blame the post on a staffer, Republicans rushed to condemn the post’s racism.

Later tonight on Air Force One, Trump said that he had posted it himself. When a reporter asked if he would apologize, he said, “No, I didn’t make a mistake.”

While the post exhibited both the president’s vile racism and his failing impulse control, it also seems to have been an attempt to use racism to break the growing coalition against him. As when they arrested Black journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort as well as Black protesters at a church while leaving white protesters free, Trump and his allies are hammering on racial fault lines. As with the ape trope, the White House went so far as to digitally alter a photograph of church protester and civil rights activist Nekima Levy Armstrong, who appeared to be quite composed during her arrest, to make her look blacker and as if she is sobbing in terror.

“They couldn’t break me,” Armstrong told Nil Köksal of Canadian news interview show As it Happens. “And so they altered an image showing me broken.” “I thought, am I that much of a threat to the world’s greatest superpower?”

The answer is that the growing coalition of Americans from all walks of life standing against MAGA and defending American democracy is the United States of America at its best, and that coalition is absolutely a threat to the cabal trying to seize the assets of the nation for itself. And American history from Bacon’s Rebellion in the late 1600s forward has established a blueprint for breaking democratic coalitions that threaten those in power along racial lines.

Trump’s doubling down on racism reflects Americans’ growing disillusionment with him and his administration.