Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Not to worry—Trump did not post a racist video about the Obamas

Having said that, the claim is going viral on the left, so you need to have your facts lined up to challenge your TDS-suffering friends and acquaintances. - Andrea Widburg
  • The problem with the video Trump posted is that it’s a dead certainty that he reposted it without bothering to watch the whole thing. 
  • Had he watched it to the end, he would have known that there was a problem.
You see, the video is a screen recording captured by an unknown third party. 
And what the unknown third party was also clearly unaware of (or, possibly, didn’t care about) was the automated beginning of another, entirely unrelated video.
So, what you get after 58 seconds of a serious video about a serious topic is two seconds of an automatically played video showing Michelle and Barack Obama’s heads attached to the cartoon bodies of simian creatures. (Apes? Chimps? I have no idea.) 
You can see for yourself what happened:
As I can attest from my slow learning curve in making video-podcasts, failing to clip the end of a screen recording is a classic amateur mistake...

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