Little bit. Maybe. You think?
Trump posted this pointless racist meme portraying the Obamas as apes, because they’re black. Get it? That’s all it is, Barack and Michelle Obama in the bodies of apes, no commentary, no criticism, no context. And it had about 10,000 likes as of this posting.
This is an ancient slur. I remember my John Bircher relative showing me a crude caricature of a gorilla with arrows and captions explaining, incorrectly, how gorillas and black folk were similar, and laughing over it. I didn’t laugh. I told him it was anatomically incorrect and that it was just hateful.
That’s our president, the hateful, stupid bigot.
By the way, the creator of this image was the same guy, xerias_x, who made another AI clip that Trump reposted, of Trump flying a fighter jet and dumping loads of poop on protesters. Real brilliant stuff.
It just amazes me how childish Trump is, and baffling how many people took him seriously. We’ll suffer still more embarrassment as a nation before this is over. I expect for the next few decades at least, we’ll be the “stupid meme country” everyone pokes fun at and school children will grow up incredulous that we were once a superpower.
It is so easy to be a MAGA.
I don’t think you should show it. Why give it traction?
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I am glad that PZ has posted it… he is bring the receipts for all to see. This is documenting yet again another indefensible utterance from Trump. For all the world to see. I’d rather see it posted everywhere so the cracks of the foundation of MAGA can start to spread far and wide (or in my fevered dreams at least).
Xpost from an earlier thread.
Trump is totally senile, very deep into dementia.
He has lost what neuroscientists call “executive functions”, the ability to plan and make good decisions.
He does whatever he wants without considering whether it is a good idea or not.
And, did anyone notice he posted it on xhitter (pronounced shitter) the muskrat cesspool???
I’d be quite happy for Trump to try flying a jet fighter, as long as there was no one downrange of the runway when he did.
It is way too late to worry about that.
This video is everywhere this morning and being widely condemned by almost everyone. Except the MAGAs of course.
Which is actually a little surprising.
Trump is so obviously senile and literally babbles most of the time these days.
It is to the point that it isn’t even news or surprising.
Apes? Thin lips and hairy bodies like non Africans?
So when Trump says he’s not racist, what is the NON-racist explanation for this crap? How CAN there be one?
Somebody persuaded him. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8r8y78g10o
Somebody persuaded him. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8r8y78g10o
Trump’s grandfather’s cousin raiding a house.
.https://youtube.com/shorts/3hJL9A3La1Y
Flooding the zone. Nothing special.
Apparently, he took it down after receiving negative feedback from the gop. If true, is this the hypothetical line over which they won’t step? I’m not holding my breath.
Trump is a demented narcissistic fuckwit.
Per the Daily Kos from a few minutes ago:
Interestingly, per my usual unreliable source of info there are no scenes of great apes in “The Lion King.” The closest is Rafiki, a mandrill.
[ robro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_Sleeps_Tonight ]
I wonder (not really) if Trump knows that his mother’s people (Gaelic-speaking Scots) were referred to by Lowlanders as “The Gallows Herd”. Some good cartoon fodder there!
Tim Scott was “praying it was fake”? What does that even mean? He thought it was possible the Obamas are apes? That the Racist in Chief’s account was spoofed? He also said it’s “the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House.” (emphasis added) At least he’s finally acknowledging the regime’s racism exists.
The last I heard, they’re now blaming the post on an unnamed “staffer.” You don’t know them, they live in Canada.
The GOP explanations for the racist video are predictable.
Mike Johnson, House Speaker: “I haven’t seen it and don’t know anything about it.”
Susan Collins Maine Senator: “I’m very concerned about how this video makes us look”
The White House blamed it on someone else, a staffer or intern. .
@20 Ridana
Aaaaackchyually…the Obamas ARE apes. As are all of us.
Trumpers don’t think this is any more racist than whatsisface being portrayed as a turtle. The fact that old white guys never get slurred as “porch turtles” doesn’t register with them.
Ridana, “Tim Scott was “praying it was fake”? What does that even mean? He thought it was possible the Obamas are apes?”
Without looking it up, I reckon the claim was that they did not actually do that, it was false-flagged.
(Nothing is too stupid for conspiracy-mongers_
@ raven: He has lost what neuroscientists call “executive functions”,
Is there evidence that he possessed these executive functions to begin with?
stuffin:
Is there evidence that he possessed these executive functions to begin with?
Well, he is in his second term as POTUS and going ham on his power, so… either such “executive functions” are irrelevant to being a boss ruling a country and being powerful and rich, or he does actually have them.
(Logic is pitiless)
[grr]
Remember Trump’s ad about the Exonerated Five? That was long before his recent attacks on Somali-Americans, but comes from the same vile place inside him with that grotesquely square lip expression that screams “angry white man” that’s catnip to MAGAts.
Obama was the greatest president in my lifetime (he didn’t infamously exploit an intern like Slick Willie). He is forever Trump’s deepest embarrassment going back to the Correspondent’s Dinner. He lives rent-free in Trump’s addled brain. I wonder if Trump shat himself in Obama’s presence during the transition. I hear there’s quite a bit of that.
Oh and consider the tiny mushroom penis revelation, which is not unconnected when you consider historic lynching emasculations.
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Toadstool, IIRC. And this is the jilted pro having a go.
(Credulity is credulous)
Trump should stick to one, either be a virulent racist or a pedophile but it looks like he decided to be both.
<sarcasm> Given that the current authorized resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC, has all of the intelligence, morals, and squishiness of something that crawled out from under a rock, maybe depicting the Obamas as apes was actually looking up to them? He thought he was giving them a compliment, by depicting them as a “higher life form” than the average politician? </sarcasm>
I think the reaction to this latest – misjudgment – suggests that, except for his narrowing hardcore base, his appeal is beginning to wear thin. Roll on the midterms! In any event, I now consider myself as antima – anti-MAGA – a subset of antifa.
The end of his days cannot come too soon.
Analysis piece via Aussie ABC :
Source : https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-07/donald-trump-backdown-over-racist-obama-post-analysis/106317296
StevoR, re: “Trump’s complete impunity and dominance, “Peak Trump”, may have passed.
He has just done something that a year ago would have been unthinkable: deleted a social media post.”
That is factually untrue. There are numerous examples going back to 2016.
The entire piece is just wishful thinking. And you fell for it, because headlines and hype are your thing.
Here is one from 2017: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41417279
Trump refuses to apologize over video showing the Obamas as apes
He knows it’s wrong, the post has been deleted. Small dick energy.
“John Bircher relative” – the ones who still think Eisenhower was a commie agent. They are BTW re-admitted into the conservative mainstream.
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Another example of massive cognitive dysfunction:
“Tr*mp and Miller do not understand soft power. And it’s hobbling the regime”
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[“Soft” power must obviously be effiminate and gay. This is the infantile level of their understanding]
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=LaP6voExLVU
Anyone else recall Samantha Bee calling it here –
Full Frontal Investigates: Is This Racist Racist? (7 mins long) Back in january 2018?
That Trump is viciously, irredeemably, racist as fuck is hardly any secret and something we’ve long known. Too many Amercians seemed to happy to ignore that in their final ever proper~ish lection..
@36. John Morales : Damn. Fair enough. The ABC journo writing that got it wrong.
That’s discouraging.
The thought that that tweet deletion was a first was some faint bit of hope there briefly.. Was something anyhow. Dammit. Sigh.
Steve Shives Will Trump Ever Do Something Too Racist for Senator Tim Scott? – 15 mins long.
Telling racists that they’re racist doesn’t really seem to register. I find that they are much more disturbed by pointing out how juvenile and stupid they are.
^ Tell them being juvenile and stupid statistically goes together with having a small penis! It is not as if they are ever going to check the science.
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BTW I seem to recall chimps have the largest testicles among primates. Humans have the largest schlongs.
Being too lazy to operate a touch keyboard and dictating all your social media ramblings to a staffer does seem like something a billionaire would do. They probably both had a good laugh at the video before re-Truth™-ing it.
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“Being too lazy to operate a touch keyboard and dictating all your social media ramblings to a staffer does seem like something a billionaire would do.”
This is 2026. I see people talking to their phones all the time, and not to another person.
@45:
Imagine a psychiatrist from the 60s suddenly timewarped to now, watching all these people with weird earrings sticking out of their ears having conversations with people who aren’t there while walking down the street or sitting on park benches… It’d drive Menninger mad (if anyone could tell).
Jaws, I sometimes do.
It’s that thing where change feels slow and steady while it’s happening, then suddenly one notices how much the world has changed in a decade or two.
It’s not even so much witnessing verbal convos with people on earpieces not there, which will always be offputting.
I recently had a Zoomer colleague tell me how her generation actually hates talking on phones period. I told her that I as a Gen X’er also hate talking on phones.
Over a decade ago a friend of mine was renting a room from a Muslim guy who loved to get drunk with us. My friend was texting voraciously and back then me and his roommate were mocking him for texting so much (like he was teenage girl…which in retrospect sounds very sexist and ageist). Now I prefer texting over talking on the phone.
I have thought of dictating notes to my phone, but I hate the sound of my own voice. There is also the voice to text feature I have used before when driving.
Weirdly people send voice messages via text. I hate that. A diachronic form of talking on the phone. What’s not to hate?
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“Weirdly people send voice messages via text. I hate that. A diachronic form of talking on the phone. What’s not to hate?”
It is asynchronous.
Send it, someone can look at it at their leisure.
Beep announces it.
No rush. That’s what to not hate.
Do you prefer to try to talk to someone to give them a message?
Do you prefer they respond then and there and have a conversation?
(Horses for courses)
Not sure how this is appreciably different to a white guy inventing a psuedo-asian name no actual person would ever call themselves, going to google translate to convert that into pretend-kanji, and then performing a mocking stereotype of an “inscrutable” asian under this disguise (complete with parenthetical “kanji”) for 15 years.
Both seem equally grotesquely racist to me.
Any chance of a cleanup of the steaming, misgendering turd in aisle 51?
Silentbob
Have you found those links to all examples of me doing any of those things?
And speaking of racist, what exactly is “pretend-kanji”? Do you think that Google Translate invents kanji?
Rob
Was that a rhetorical question?
chigau @54: Sadly, I guess so.
Actually, fuck it. I already bailed from Mano’s place because of this bullshit. But it’s not just about Mano or PZ. Most of the commentariat has blithely ignored Silentbob’s maliciousness. What you ignore, you condone. Good luck with that. Peace out.
#51: That characterization of chigau (違う) is not at all accurate, and is only exposing your weird biases. Knock it off.
#48: I’m a boomer who also hates talking on the phone. Who does?
@PZ #57: This isn’t the first time Silentbob has sniped at chigau, or the tenth, or the hundredth. It’s a pattern of harassment, out of some weird animus, going back years.
You can see all of a commenter’s comments at once. Look at Silentbob, referring to chigau as an “otaku” and shit like that. And always referring to her as male, ignoring all correction.
I only come by now and again, and Silentbob keeps fucking doing it.
@ ^ Owlmirror & #56 Rob Grigjanis : yeah, its unfair and unjustifiable on Silentbob’s part and annoying and he needs to stop doing that and preferbly apologise in my view.
I personally also hope you both stick around and continue commenting here – you both have my respect FWIW.
If logic is indeed pitiless, then it seems appropriate to point out that the argument above is actually an example, not of logic, but of the logical fallacy known as false dichotomy. It oversimplifies by presenting two absolute choices as though they were the only possibilities when, in fact, other possibilities exist. “Relevant” and “necessary” are not synonymous; just because a quality or condition may not be necessary to rule a country does not mean that said quality or condition is irrelevant to ruling a country.
If one is going to cite logic as the basis for their argument, it is generally a good idea to… understand logic.
You are quoting me without the context; it is (#27) a direct response to “@ raven: He has lost what neuroscientists call “executive functions” …,”.
So that is a given premise; he has lost what neuroscientists call “executive functions”.
Given that premise, and given that he literally is being a boss ruling a country and being powerful and rich, the dichotomy perforce applies.
I know, but those are your own terms. I never made that mistake.
I am pointing out that is someone who supposedly lacks X can still Y, then either X is not necessary for Y or they do not lack X.
Indeed. :)
You did say “irrelevant to” in #27, John, rather than”not necessary for.”
Anyways, I’d say that “executive functions” are relevant to but not necessary for an executive role. Personal competence can certainly help you win such a role and keep it, but sometimes a person is simply put in power by a system. The emperor Commodus springs to mind.
That said, Commodus was at least a showman, and Trump certainly had those skills when he was younger. And I don’t know of any other person who could have galvanized the Republican base in the way that he did in his first campaign, even if they had his wealth. Whether he’s completely mentally incompetent at this point, I dunno; the motivations of narcissists are fairly opaque to me, so I can rarely figure out what the “smart” choice of action would be from their perspective in the first place.
“either such “executive functions” are irrelevant to being a boss ruling a country and being powerful and rich, or he does actually have them.” is my literal quotation. Verbatim, I just copypasted it.
Again: I am pointing out that is [if] someone who supposedly lacks X can still Y, then either X is not necessary for Y or they do not lack X.
∃x (Y(x) ∧ ¬X(x)) → ¬∀x (Y(x) → X(x)) is what I am saying.