Several Black conservatives with ties to President Donald Trump’s administration issued rare public rebukes after a video shared on the president’s social media platform late Thursday night included a racist animation depicting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama with the bodies of apes.

Trump claimed he was the ‘least racist president you’ve had in a long time’ after sharing a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.

A Republican lawmaker openly criticized President Donald Trump’s AI-generated video of former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes.

President Donald Trump just hit a new low in the eyes of Jack White - and that's saying something, considering the White Stripes rocker's long history of criticizing the president online. After Trump's official Truth Social account posted a since-deleted video depicting Michelle and Barack Obama as apes - a historically prominent and deeply racist trope - dancing in a jungle setting to The Tokens' "The Lion Sleeps Tonight,

"I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine," the president said when asked if he would apologize for posting the video

President Donald Trump’s racist social media post featuring former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle was deleted Friday after a backlash from both Republicans and Democrats who criticized the video as offensive.

The Republican president's Thursday night post immediately drew backlash for its treatment of the nation's first Black president and first lady.

In the 12 hours since a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes was posted on President Trump’s Truth Social account, the White House’s story has swung wildly. Around 9 a.m. ET Friday, from Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King.