© EPA-EFE/FRANCIS CHUNG Vance also does not believe the president should apologize.
No staffers at the White House have encountered any repercussions for the prejudiced video clip featuring Barack and Michelle Obama, which was uploaded the prior week to Donald Trump's Truth Social platform, the US president himself acknowledged in a Thursday press briefing, according to The Guardian.
The footage, which surfaced late the previous evening, featured a section of a documentary which depicted unsubstantiated theories concerning the 2020 election as factual, and included a few moments in which the Obamas were represented as apes. The US leader attempted to minimize the evident prejudice in the video. He stated the clip was brief and contained “a little bit of a Lion King thing going on.”
“But it was… quite compelling material about electoral deceit. And that material that you're referencing has been widely circulated, numerous times, I believe, for a number of years,” Trump mentioned.
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Alongside Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance has also disregarded worries about prejudice. During a visit to Azerbaijan, he stated that “the controversy ignited and then subsided before I even took notice of it.”
“You see, the president indicated that a member of staff posted a video, he did not even view the entire thing, and upon seeing the whole thing, he removed it… Ought he to apologize for posting the video and then removing it? No, I don’t believe so. I think individuals share content on social media, and if you share something and you disapprove of it, you are able to take it down,” Vance continued.
Trump removed the video following exceptionally severe condemnation, including from within his own political affiliation. His Truth Social account, which is managed by the president and a select group of trusted assistants, has evolved into a combination of formal policy, political grandstanding, and — to an increasing degree — AI-created memes and fabricated videos.