HOT TOPICS | Donald Trump's Vile, Racist Truth Social Post

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🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 136 minutes

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This morning, we’re calling out Donald Trump for a vile, racist Truth Social post depicting Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes. It’s just the latest example of Trump’s racism being openly displayed and disturbingly accepted by his supporters. We’re asking the obvious questions, will any Republicans denounce this? Will anyone finally draw a line and say this is unacceptable? And is this just another calculated distraction from what Trump really doesn’t want you focusing on, the Epstein files and his plummeting approval ratings? Don is joined by DL Hughley, Derrick Johnson, Charles Blow, and Bakari Sellers to break it all down. 🍋 This episode is sponsored by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Go to https://FFRF.US/NEW YEAR or text “DON” to Five Eleven Five Eleven. And help protect a country that belongs to all of us. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. BetterHelp makes it easy to get matched online with a qualified therapist. Sign up and get 10% off at https://BetterHelp.com/donlemon This episode is sponsored by Shopify. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial and start selling today at https://SHOPIFY.COM/lemon This episode is brought to you Lean. Let's get you started with 20% off and free rush shipping so you can add LEAN to you healthy diet and exercise plan. Visit https://TAKELEAN.com and enter LEMON for your discount. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning, everybody.
0:16.2	Welcome to the Don Lemon Show, Hot Topics on this Friday morning.
0:20.8	Wow. Sometimes you just, things just
0:25.3	floor you. I thought that after what happened to me last week, like, you know, I mean,
0:30.5	I think they're on, I don't even know if they're comparable, but I don't even know what to say.
0:41.0	Because I have been saying that this president is racist for so long.
0:44.4	And I think before anybody on television would say it, getting called a race fader and people telling me I was too sensitive or that he was, he said things that were racist adjacent or that he was bordering.
0:56.6	He's just a plain out fucking racist.
0:58.5	So let me say this just plainly, okay, because I'm talking about this video.
1:01.8	This video, and you just put the first image of it up, Andy.
1:05.7	This video should terrify anyone who really takes the United States seriously.
1:09.4	So yes, what you're looking at, there you go.
1:11.9	It's not just a meme.
1:13.6	It's not just Trump being Trump.
1:15.1	It is a sitting American president posting an AI video depicting the former president
1:20.9	and former First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys.
1:24.3	And this isn't funny.
1:25.2	It's not comedy.
1:26.0	This is not politics.
1:30.3	It's racist, deranged filth. Sewage. Below the gutter. The oldest insult in the book dressed up as an AI-generated
1:36.3	and dressed up in AI-generated pixels and then pipes straight through the most powerful office on earth,
1:43.3	which is the president of the United
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