I think this might be a little bit racist


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.

Comments

  1. says

    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.

  2. roadwolf says

    @3

    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).

  3. raven says

    Xpost from an earlier thread.

    Video: President Trump late Thursday night posted a racist video clip portraying former President Barack Obama and the former first lady Michelle Obama as apes. Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, dismissed criticism of the clip as “fake outrage.”

    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.

  4. raven says

    I don’t think you should show it. Why give it traction?

    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.

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