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Friday, February 6, 2026

Not to worry—Trump did not post a racist video about the Obamas

 by Andrea Widburg

Yesterday, Donald Trump posted an interesting video on his social media about voting machine election fraud in 2020. This is obviously a topic dear to his heart. Moreover, as the investigations in Fulton County, Georgia, demonstrate, it’s still a very hot and important topic (making it all the more bizarre that Senate Republicans will not push the SAVE Act, which aligns with the bipartisan public desire for election integrity). That Trump would post such a video is a no-brainer.

The problem with the video Trump posted is that it’s a dead certainty that he reposted it without bothering to watch the whole thing. Had he watched it to the end, he would have known that there was a problem.

You see, the video is a screen recording captured by an unknown third party. And what the unknown third party was also clearly unaware of (or, possibly, didn’t care about) was the automated beginning of another, entirely unrelated video.

So, what you get after 58 seconds of a serious video about a serious topic is two seconds of an automatically played video showing Michelle and Barack Obama’s heads attached to the cartoon bodies of simian creatures. (Apes? Chimps? I have no idea.) You can see for yourself what happened:

As I can attest from my slow learning curve in making video-podcasts, failing to clip the end of a screen recording is a classic amateur mistake. That means it’s entirely possible that the person who recorded the serious election fraud video, like Trump himself, had turned his attention away in the last few seconds, because the real point was in the main body of the video. You didn’t need to watch it to the end to get the gist of it.

But of course, in politics, optics are everything, and Trump, clearly inadvertently, gave leftists the optics they needed. We know this because, when Democrats took the matter to the media and social media, they didn’t use the entire video. They couldn’t because it would have reminded voters that they were almost certainly the victims of a fraudulent election in 2020.

Instead, the Democrats got a screen grab of those and pretended that the entire video that Trump shared consisted of showing the Obamas as simian creatures.  Here are just some examples of this fake “frozen moment in time” approach:

 

Even those who opted for a video approach to castigating Trump carefully ensured that the video was only of the Obamas, without any hint of the election fraud that preceded it. Frankly, I’m not sure it was a good idea because the subconscious is going to walk away with a very powerful impression, not of Trump doing a bad thing, but of Michelle and Barack bouncing in the jungle:

The long-term problem here is that the left will get away with this one. It’s a classic case of “a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on.” They have a powerful image that’s sort of true, and we have a long explanation about Trump being unaware of an autoplay video popping up at the end of a more serious video about election fraud. In a short-attention span world, we lose.

Still, it’s up to every one of us to counter what happened—perhaps by sharing the entire video with people who are confused. Who knows? They might learn something.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/02/not_to_worry_trump_did_not_post_a_racist_video_about_the_obamas.html

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