FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2026
Like gunshots on Fifth Avenue? The Truth Social post has been deleted. But you can still see it, just as it was, at the Wayback Machine.
With apologies—at Mediate, the original report started like this:
Trump Posts Video Depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as Apes
President Donald Trump shared a 2020 election conspiracy video to Truth Social on Thursday night that briefly depicts former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes.
And so on from there. It's in that report that we saw the link to the original Truth Social post.
By now, the original post has been deleted. First, though, and again with sorrow, the cosmos was offered this:
White House Shrugs Off ‘Fake Outrage’ Over Trump Post Depicting Obamas as Apes
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has dismissed criticism of President Donald Trump for having shared an AI-generated video on Truth Social depicting former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes.
[...]
Responding on Friday, Leavitt defended the post in comment to PBS and said the controversial clip was from a meme that had depicted Trump as “King of the Jungle” over other lawmakers:
"This is from an Internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from ‘The Lion King.' Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public."
How does a person get to be the way she was by the time she was just 25?
Trump’s s opponents are as fanatical as his supporters.He could prevent a shooting on Fifth Ave., and his opponents would blame him for doing so.
ReplyDeleteThis is a lie.
DeleteHow does your comment make sense in the context of what Trump posted?
DeleteDickhead in Cal has stated his purpose for coming here is to demonstrate that Trump and his supporters are not monsters. I’m still waiting for some proof
DeleteNobody likes Fox but they have first Ammendment rights like anyone else. What exactly does Somerby think can be done about them beyond not watching?
ReplyDeleteEveryone the King Chickenshit approves of. Certainty not Don Lemon.
Delete??
Deletethey have first Ammendment rights like anyone else.
DeleteNot everyone anymore.
DeleteWe have rights here in Congo! Come, come, Democrat lady! We'll give you all rights! Treat good, lady! Antifa! Come, lady, come!
Antifa is shorthand for anti-Republican Party.
DeleteYeah. Nothing to offer beyond hatred for half of the American population.
Delete' Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public."
ReplyDeleteWhy doesn't Trump do something that actually matters to the American public, instead of incessantly spamming us with bizarre internet memes?
It's a rhetorical question, as by now everyone knows that Trump's mental faculties have markedly deteriorated.
Ilya -- Trump has done a lot of things of major importance to the American people. They may have slipped your mind because the media gives them less attention than they deserve
Delete-- closing the Southern border
-- Getting almost 3 million illegal immigrants out of the country by deporting them or persuading them to leave voluntarily
-- Switching civil service and much of the country to merit-based hiring and promotions.
-- Getting salaries to rise faster than inflation, so that people are wealthier
-- Getting Europe to pay for Ukraine's weapons, rather than the US
-- bringing peace to Gaza, at least for the time being
Dickhead of the Lists
DeleteStop cluttering the comments with these lists David.
DeleteThe American public has weighed in on their opinion of Trump, and lately it is not good. I trust them to accurately assess his impact on their lives.
Delete- Has his personal army gas US Citizens and murder them.
Delete- Has his personal army gas US Citizens and murder them.
DeleteHow does someone get to be like Caroline Leavitt in 25 years, Somerby asks. First, you are born to Republican parents. Second, you have the Mar a Lago look and blonde hair. Third you grow up thinking that if you're nice to rich old men, you will benefit financially. Life rewards women who go along to get along, just as it does men, but in a different fashion. Then Leavitt no doubt worked her connections -- networking is what they teach young people without actual skills. There are plenty of young women like Leavitt, so she also had to have the willingness to let herself be slobbered over ("those lips, like machine guns") and fondled, in the creepy way most women her age would reject. Beyond that, she is most likely told what to say, or she repeats what she hears said around her. It is sad that she feels she has to do her job in the way she does it, but it is ultimately her choice. How did Stephen Miller get warped into his contorted shape and why doesn't Somerby ask about him? For that matter, why is Somerby always chiding female and black and gay jounalists -- why is Anderson Cooper mentioned at all?
ReplyDelete"why is Somerby always chiding female and black and gay jounalists"
DeleteIs Gutfeld female, black, or gay?
Anderson Cooper is. Why single him out today?
DeleteSo I guess Somerby criticizes men and women, blacks and whites, gays and straights — isn’t that right?
DeleteImplying that Leavitt is bad because of "the way she was" is a cop-out. What aspect of Leavitt is Bob alluding to? Her ending support of the President? Every Press secretary does that. They have to.
ReplyDeleteWhat strikes me most about her is the way she handles this big job at such a young age. With the added burden of raising three young children.
Leavitt earned her way up the Republican establishment ladder by doing all the things good Republican youth do. It explains why she is willing to tell lies for the President, as Somerby wondered. It also implies she is loaded with religious fervor:
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoline_Leavitt
This is exactly how Republican worker bees are created. Her dad is a MAGA good ole' boy, she isn't overly educated and went to a second-rate college, then was indoctrinated into the party line in every job thereafter. And she looks like she came from central casting (as required by Trump).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoline_Leavitt
Why is Somerby incapable of using Google (or any other search engine)?
Yes, David. Who takes care of her three kids while she is nursing Trump?
DeleteDavid lied about her 3 kids:
Delete"As of early 2026, Karoline Leavitt has one son, Nicholas "Niko" Robert Riccio, born in July 2024. She announced in December 2025 that she is pregnant with her second child, a baby girl expected in May 2026. "
David lied about her 3 kids:
DeleteClassic
DeleteAbout that racist image of the Obamas. Trump said that some very important people told a white house aide to post them.
DeleteDavid is a foreign troll and therefore not familiar with US society. He is not worth bothering to respond to, the best way to counter David is to ignore him.
DeleteIgnoring trolls does not eork. They are reinforced by the sight of their own words on a screen, or by the money they are paid.
Deletework
DeleteHere is some actual media criticism.
ReplyDeletehttps://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-mainstream-press-is-desperate-to.html?m=1
ReplyDelete"Trump Posts Video Depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as Apes"
So? Is this politically incorrect, sacrilege in your BlueAnon cult?
You know, Bob, it's so incredibly easy to spare yourself from being exposed to politically incorrect content, tabooed by your cult. Repeat after me: do.not.read.Donald.Trump's.postings.on.social.networks.
That's all. Case closed.
Your continued support of a pedophile racist is precious. Posting racist content is not politically incorrect, it is deplorable, a word properly attached to clowns who consider it politically incorrect.
DeleteBe quiet piggy. Keep your retarded confessions to yourself.
DeleteThat video just goes to show that Trump is no more a stone cold racist than any other Right-winger.
DeleteBirds of a feather.
DeleteSee trumptard, this is your wheelhouse. The world of pure insult.
DeleteIt's when you try to actually say something about the real world, like citing facts or doing simple math, that you invariably get tripped up by your own ignorance and an intelligence which is, let's be honest, below average. Stick with what you know.
Shit hole country arrests 5-year olds, not pedophiles.
ReplyDeleteAn appellate court decided that the President has the power to forbid racial discrimination -- that is, to forbid treating people differently based on race. This should be obvious. In fact, I think that the Constitution and existing laws already prohibit racial discrimination. An appellate decision was necessary because a judge issued an obviously improper injunction preventing the President from ending official race discrimination.
ReplyDeletehttps://reason.com/volokh/2026/02/06/fourth-circuit-rejects-facial-challenge-to-two-trump-anti-dei-executive-orders/
go take a flying fuck, dickhead.
DeleteTrump is a giant racist.
DeleteI do not like his policies, but I certainly love Trump:
Delete1) The rapist
2) The pedophile
3) The racist
4) The failed businessman who could not get a business loan in the US after 6 bankruptcies and stiffing contractors throughout his business career.
5) The crook who stole from a children's charity.
6) The author of 40,000 documented lies and counting
7) The admirer of Putin.
8) The fake university owner.
9) The biggest single contributor to the national debt in history.
10) The unabashed pardoner of drug kingpins and white collar crooks responsible for over a billion dollars in theft from investors, including lining his pockets for pardons, of which there have been over 1500.
11) The instigator of J5, who watched for hours as over 140 police were injured and Ashley Babbitt was killed after getting deep inside the capitol building while he sat and watched.
Don’t forget how he fucked up the Kennedy Center because he’s a ginormous jackass that nobody can stand. And then he just capriciously tore down an entire wing of the whitehouse without so much as a permit. He is Trump, czar of all the Russias
DeleteDon’t forget he also discovered that Tylenol causes autism.
Delete@5:10 - mostly valid complaints, but you got three wrong. Obama and Biden both increased the national debt more than Trump, although Obama had 8 years to do it. Also, Trump was a good businessman in total. He had a lot of failures, but he successes outweighed them In the net he made billions of dollars.
Delete'Trump was a good businessman in total."
DeleteA 2018 investigation by The New York Times found Trump received at least $413 million (in 2018 dollars) from his father, Fred Trump, over the course of his life."
Despite this, Trump had frittered almost all of it away until the success of The Apprentice.
He's a successful reality TV star, not a businessman (unless you consider issuing meme coins a business).
Hector - his father gave him at least $413 million. He is worth $6.5 billion, according to Forbes.
DeleteTrump was such a successful businessman that he could not get a commercial loan from a US bank.
DeleteA large percentage of Trump’s current wealth is a result of his corruption while president.
DeleteDiC,
DeleteIn 2020, Trump's net worth was estimated at $2.5 billion. If he'd gotten the $413 million in a lump sum in 1995 and then invested in stocks, he would only have needed an annual return just over 7% to get to the $2.5 billion by 2020.
But the S&P's annual return over this same period was over 11%. So Trump the shrewd businessman made far less money during that time than a little old lady who invested the same amount in the market.
But of course Trump didn't get it all in 1995, he got a great deal of it as far back as the 1970's, so his financial performance is that much worse.
After 2020, Trump's jump in wealth is from 1) marketing crypto to MAGA suckers, 2) social media stock (Truth Social, again MAGA suckers) and 3) licensing deals, which only work because of his name recognition.
So once again you've swallowed the hype without thinking. What would you do without me?
DeleteAh, the Soros-monkey envy. Counting other people's money. Typical.
January 2026: Worst job layoffs since the Great Recession.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Trump.
Ah, since the Great Recession? So not as bad as with the "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii" WH tenant.
DeleteEveryone knows the Great Recession was caused by white bankers who committed fraud at such an epidemic rate, it crashed the world's economy and it took the government (boo! hiss!) to bail it out.
Delete1:28 The Great Recession occurred during the second term of Bush Jr. Try to keep up. Jeez.
Delete1:28 is factually challenged but likes to go up to the tee ball holder and take his swings anyway.
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DeleteNo, idiot Soros-monkey; like I said: the Great Recession is a period when the "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii" fella was WH tenant.
The Great Recession lasted from 2007-2009. You can look these things up, dumbass. George Bush Jr. occupied the WH all those years. You can look that up too, dumbass. Jeez. You couldn't get dumber. Don't take that as a challenge.
DeleteAnother favorable court ruling for Trump
ReplyDeleteThe Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has made a massive ruling in favor of President Trump and the ICE removal process [pdf Ruling Here]. In short, throughout the nation 360 immigration judges had previously ruled that illegal aliens (applicants for admission) should be granted bond and released during the removal proceedings.
The Fifth CCA has now ruled the aliens can be detained as they go through the removal process. This means ICE captures the illegal, holds them in detention and then rapidly deports them.
I am puzzled. I thought it was already the case that illegal aliens could be detained before being deported.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/02/06/major-federal-appeals-court-ruling-permits-ice-to-detain-illegal-aliens-during-deportation-proceedings-this-will-fast-track-removals/
Go take a flying fu k, dickhead, you fucking racist bastard
DeleteWho gives a shit how courts rule?
DeleteWhat is this, the 1950s?
Back in ancient times, i.e. before bigots elected a child rapist to be President of the United States of America, people would take court rulings seriously.
DeleteAnyone who isn't a bigot, or isn't perfectly fine with bigotry, left the Republican Party over a quarter of a century ago.
DeleteA Word From Todd Blanche
ReplyDeleteRemember, it's not a crime to party with the most prolific pedophile in US history.