LIVE REACTION: Trump Posts Racist Video Depicting Obamas as Apes
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:34.4 | with Indeed. Hey, everyone. You're about to watch a video of me, Andrew Eger, and Tim, |
| 0:40.5 | talking about an incredibly racist video that Donald Trump posted late last night. |
| 0:47.5 | We recorded our take on it early on Friday morning. |
| 0:53.0 | By the time we were done shortly after, the White House had decided |
| 0:56.4 | actually, we're going to take this thing down. Now, they had earlier defended the video saying, |
| 1:00.6 | I was just a meme from the Lion King, but after a number of other Republican lawmakers |
| 1:05.5 | subsequently said, you should take it down, they decided to take it down. They also said, |
| 1:10.0 | and I kid you not, that it was erroneously posted by some staffer. |
| 1:14.4 | It doesn't quite make sense because it went on Trump's own feed at 1144 p.m. |
| 1:20.4 | With a number of other crazy posts that we also got into in our video. |
| 1:25.1 | So to believe that, you'd have to believe that some staffer was just |
| 1:28.2 | sitting up through the night posting directly to Trump's account. Probably not the case. |
| 1:33.3 | My theory is that the staffer share him videos and he decides to post him himself. But that's |
| 1:37.7 | their excuse for this one. Anyways, we want to make sure that when you saw our take on this, |
| 1:42.2 | that you understood that we recorded it prior |
| 1:44.8 | to the White House erasing the video. |
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