Daily Take: Trump’s Racist Attack on the Obamas Shows the Moral Collapse of His Presidency
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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This wasn’t a joke or a mistake but a warning about how racism, silence, and abuse of power are eating away at democracy…
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| 1:00.1 | Trump's racist attack on the Obama shows the moral collapse of his presidency. |
| 1:06.2 | I've been talking in a microphone since I did the morning news in WITL in Lansing, Michigan in the late 1960s. |
| 1:13.9 | And I've seen a lot of ugly moments in American politics. |
| 1:17.3 | But every so often something happens that still takes your breath away, not because it's surprising, but because it's so painfully revealing. |
| 1:24.7 | This latest racist stunt by Donald Trump, reposting a meme on his Nazi-infested |
| 1:29.6 | social media site in which the Obama's faces are superimposed onto the bodies of primates |
| 1:35.2 | in the jungle set to the 1961 song The Lion Sleeps Tonight by the Tokens is one of those moments. |
| 1:42.7 | That a popular pro-Trump account on X created this video |
| 1:46.9 | and has lived on that platform without consequences, |
| 1:49.5 | disgusting in and of itself. |
| 1:51.6 | But Trump, as our president, speaking in our voice, |
| 1:55.3 | made it infinitely worse last night |
| 1:57.2 | by promoting it to millions around the world. |
| 2:01.2 | Promoting a video that depicts Barack and Michelle Obama as non-human primates isn't a joke. |
| 2:08.3 | It isn't satire or an accident. |
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