Video with racist clip pulled from Trump social media
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
President Trump says he only watched part of a video including a racist animation of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, before it was posted on his own social media. The clip was at the end of a 62-second video he shared containing claims about voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. It was up for twelve hours before it was deleted. There has been a furious backlash from both Democrats and Republicans, which the White House initially dismissed as ''fake outrage'', but later blamed the post on a staffer who it said had '‘erroneously'’ shared it. Also: how the release of the Epstein files has triggered a number of investigations into Europe's political elite. Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is hoping to secure a stronger mandate in this weekend's snap election; we hear what is on the minds of voters. The Cuban government announces emergency measures to save energy, in the face of US moves to block oil imports. The EU orders TikTok to change the "addictive design" of its platform or face a heavy fine.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.4 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.9 | I'm Keith Adams, and in the early hours of the 7th of February, these are our main stories. |
| 0:16.8 | Condemnation across the US political spectrum prompts the White House to remove a racist video |
| 0:22.4 | on President Trump's truth social account. More international figures are embroiled in the web of |
| 0:28.4 | connections around the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as further details emerge from the release of |
| 0:34.3 | his emails, photos and files. And the seemingly B-movie blockbuster taking the film world by storm, |
| 0:41.4 | the growing buzz around the vampire and blues horror sinners. |
| 0:47.2 | Also in this podcast, |
| 0:49.1 | Two hours. I've spent two hours waiting for the fuel tanker to arrive and no sign of it. |
| 0:54.4 | We don't know if it's coming. |
| 0:56.0 | Fuel shortages in Cuba reach critical levels. |
| 0:59.2 | The government says it's ready for talks with the US about solving the crisis. |
| 1:06.8 | First, to the United States, where the White House has removed a video shared on President Trump's |
| 1:12.6 | truth social account depicting former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama |
| 1:18.6 | as apes in a jungle. The clip appeared at the end of a video promoting conspiracy theories about |
| 1:24.6 | fraud in the 2020 presidential election. |
| 1:30.2 | It remained online for about 12 hours. |
| 1:35.4 | President Trump has now acknowledged a video was racist, but has declined to apologize, |
| 1:40.0 | and he says the video was taken down as soon as the White House found out about it. |
| 1:41.6 | No, I didn't make a mistake. |
| 1:48.2 | I mean, I look at a lot of thousands of things. And I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine. They had that one post. And I guess it was a takeoff. By the way, |
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