Trump defends racist Obama video as 'very strong' documentation of key campaign claim

[LetMyPeopleVote]

trump is truly mentally ill. This video was a pure racist attack on the Obamas and had nothing to do with voter fraudl

Donald Trump has excused the sharing of a racist video featuring Barack and Michelle Obama to his Truth Social account as it actually details voter fraud.

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-02-13T15:05:59.657Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-obama-2675265609/

Donald Trump has excused the sharing of a racist video featuring Barack and Michelle Obama to his Truth Social account as it actually details voter fraud.

The president has erroneously claimed for years that the 2020 elections were rigged. His second term in the White House has led to some pressure on mail-in ballots and the repetition of claims that the Democratic Party did not win the 2020 election. Trump's post to Truth Social last week was criticized by politicians, though the president has tried to explain why the video had been shared, The Daily Beast reported.

He told reporters on Thursday, "That was a video on, as you know, on voter fraud. It was a fairly long video, and they had a little piece and it had to do with the Lion King. It’s doing very well, uh, it’s been shown all over the place, long before that was posted.

"But that was a very strong - and I’m sure you saw it - a very strong piece on voter fraud, and the piece we were talking about was all over the place, many times I believe, for years."

The video was shared to Trump's Truth Social account at around midnight on February 6, with the current president sharing a host of posts, including this video. Said video runs for one minute and two seconds, with the final seconds of the video depicting Barack and Michelle as animals.

Trump had previously targeted Obama with an artificially generated video of the former president being arrested in the Oval Office. The deepfake video appeared in July last year on the president's Truth Social account.

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1. Would you expect anything less from a racist POS?

[dalton99a]

2. Keep talking, asshole

[Torchlight]

3. Voter fraud and shark attacks... they both sizzle

but that's the entire measure of their existence. Their overblown responses, laws and flaccid arguments won't affect the amount of shark attacks in the Texas panhandle.

[gulliver]

4. If they didn't do it on purpose, they should have.

Trump says, "It's doing very well," (talking about the voter fraud video). It's hard to imagine a better way to add an algorithm boost to a tired propaganda video than "accidentally" putting something outrageous at the end.

[Deuxcents]

5. There is no excuse for the inexcusable.

[Qutzupalotl]

6. So "strong" that he took it down in disgrace.

He's worried about the midterms all right.

[EdmondDantes_]

7. If you mean the claim Harris made that people deserve better than Trump

Then absolutely Trump posting that racist garbage does in fact prove that claim.

[Blue_Roses]

8. Can't the Obamas slam

Trump with a defamation of character lawsuit? I wish theÿ would do something to put him in his place. Trump has bullied them long enough and needs to have his ass handed to him.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. His world is collapsing around him, and this is where he decides to

plant his battle flag.