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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

Trump posted a video depicting the first Black president and his wife as apes and his excuse for this is that it's a riff on The Lion King, a movie that does not feature any apes. Somehow this was a one-day story and we've already moved on.

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We Resist
@wtp-protest.bsky.social

He also blew up most of our alliances last month with the Greenland b.s. Jack Smith basically confirmed we have a felonius traitor in the White House. Unfortunately, we have media barons, and they pivoted entirely to influence peddling.

Scott Farrand ❌👑
@scottfarrand.bsky.social

I sure AF aint moving on. That was so incredibly vile -- such extreme hatred on display. Trump is not fit to be around decent people. And anyone who still supports Trump gets nothing but the same feelings from me -- what the hell is wrong with someone that they can over look such a loathsome act?

CoreyV
@coreyv.bsky.social

1.0 had a lot of one-day should’ve-been-months-long controversies. The tactic works in an conservative, oligarchic media landscape.

Fabstacular
@undiagnosedarc.bsky.social

He also "allegedly" threw a live baby in a lake to drown it. He tortured children. He raped 10 year olds. He may have had an entire family killed. And we now know the Republican party has been a sex trafficking ring for 30 years...??? I mean... The depths of his depravity flow much deeper.

kmcgurk13.bsky.social
@kmcgurk13.bsky.social

The reason these stories fade so quickly (other than the sheer amount) is that to anyone paying attention or the willfully ignorant, it just isn’t surprising. If any other President did this, this disgrace would rightfully be catastrophic to that presidency.

iammenotu
@iammenotu.bsky.social

Shock and awe. The malignant, criminal narcissist's MO is to bludgeon their victims into submission. Trump is raping the white dream of America and the shock is killing it.

Olaf Pijl
@trav3lguy.bsky.social

Why would that be wrong? They’re literally on 2 different branches of the evolutionary tree, and from different parts of the world. It’s like comparing hippos & dolphins: similar ancestor, but so long ago it doesn’t matter.

Democracy Matters
@jmal52.bsky.social

Here's what happens in real life jobs... a substitute teacher thought it was ok to call one of the African American students under her care a monkey. She was promptly fired.

Lauren J
@thespinzone.com

Honestly it's because every day he or his administration does something so awful that it becomes hard to fixate on any one thing. Like I was thinking earlier, I wish there was a running list of the outrageous things he's done cause he's flooded the zone, which might of been his goal in the 1st place

KewPieOS
@kewpieos.bsky.social

The thing is, when you are one of the ppl who was calling out the dementia for years, it's hard to be surprised when the dementia patient acts like a dementia patient. Everyone else decided now was the confident time to notice, it would have been nice if it was before the election. He has no filter

Clix
@clixwizard.bsky.social

On tape admitting to sexual assault. Friends with a pedo. Botched Navy SEAL incursion into North Korea. Threatened death to political opponents. Kills civilians with military weapons. Has threatened to invade multiple ally nations. And that's a normal week for this administration.

Scrubbing Bubbles
@atomlove.bsky.social

Here's another story not to miss. It looks like the files released by the FBI and the DOJ have links that can be converted to see the original, unredacted videos and audio files. www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckin...

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janabd.bsky.social
@janabd.bsky.social

Sorry, Aaron - where are the Obamas? Depicting our former president and the first lady as apes was hugely insulting and clearly racism. Yet, where is the response from Obamas? Why do we, the people, have to fight every fight to defend equality and democracy in our country alone? Where is Obama?

Kat4Obama
@kat4obama.bsky.social

Not to mention Trump posting a video of himself, crowned, dumping excrement from an airplane onto Americans. Most media is nothing but GOP propaganda, and that's where most Americans get their "news."

Ashok Dadhwal
@ashokdadhwal196.bsky.social

Trump shared a video depicting the first Black president and his wife as apes, then hid behind a Lion King excuse for a movie with zero apes, and America memory-holed it in 24 hours, which tells you everything about how normalized open racism has become.

Windows 91
@9xwin.bsky.social

People say flood the zone with information, but it's not hard to tie one piece to another. Its only difficult to keep track of when you treat these as completely disjoint pieces of information which is what a lot of the news is doing. All these actions are tied by the common thread of just racism.

jfc
@jfc.ninja

... not to miss the point, but this sent me down a Rafiki-centered quest to determine if mandrills are apes, wherein I learned that apes and monkeys are different

TomB
@tdb011235.bsky.social

Yeah. It's only Thursday and the Bad Bunny story is also ancient history. It's rare that any single story lasts a week in the current attention economy.

sifighter.bsky.social
@sifighter.bsky.social

I’m angry about it yes, but I also was quite aware of what he was like already so it’s not surprising. It’s despicable, racist as hell, completely blatant in its vile nature, and yet still not a surprise. I’d argue the good news is that at least public opinion made him take it down.

Vanguard
@vanguard-posts.bsky.social

Not sure if we've moved on, so much as the fact that another day brings yet more insanity. Maybe this is "flooding the zone"? But they've flooded it so much that the average person is noticing the insanity, not just the terminally online. It will work against Trump if more normies start noticing.

reggiewallinsky.bsky.social
@reggiewallinsky.bsky.social

Sticks and stones. What hurts is that he promised Ukraine air defense missiles then withheld them while Putin pulverized Kiev during the coldest days of winter. That he stole the Fulton Co. ballots. That he is building concentration camps. That he kidnaps brown people.

Art Weber
@artweber.bsky.social

Trump's "moving target" of protection. Before the people, the media, and the law have had a chance to fully process/explore/prosecute his LAST outrage, he's moved on to *another* one, and the cycle repeats.

Tommy Boy
@slownomaguy.bsky.social

We're on overload. Trump being exactly who he's always been (in this case, a racist pig) is just more evidence of what we all know, he's not fit for the office.

Evan George
@evanlgeorge.bsky.social

Your larger point about lack of accountability is totally true, but to be fair it wasn’t a one-day story. It burned all weekend, and he was asked about it today at the EPA dumpster fire 6 days later. But yeah, shocking but not surprising is the constant vibe.

nita1956.bsky.social
@nita1956.bsky.social

Nothing surprises me when it comes from trump or his ghouls. At Jimmy Carter's funeral he showed no respect nor did his illegal immigrant wife. Honestly they looked more pissed then anything and his anger at the flags at half staff.

Hart Cunningham
@hart28.bsky.social

What USA thinks it's #1 in (and its actual rankings): Life Expectancy: 46th FreePress: 42nd Healthcare: 30th Education: 26th Happiness: 23rd Freedom: 17th What the USA is #1 in: Military Spending Number of Billionaires Incarceration Bankruptcy filings Medical debt Gun deaths Funding israel

Jay G
@frogontheporch.bsky.social

He benefits from all of the chaos but lately he's benefiting even more from elderlygrandpaism where people just overlook it because they know it can't last much longer.

grailist.bsky.social
@grailist.bsky.social

I have not moved on. I’m still nauseated by this administration, if it’s not my stomach turning, it’s my head aching. I plan a donation to The Obama Foundation in honor of human decency and The Constitution.

jstumbleweed.bsky.social
@jstumbleweed.bsky.social

C'mon, it wasn't a one day story. It got a lot of attention over several days. Unfortunately, the media does move on because, as you probably know, a primary Trump media strategy is to flood the zone with shit such that the media is constantly responding to new shit.

Inglorious Smeghead
@inglouriousactual.bsky.social

trump-maga racism was never the story and you’re all guilty for telling us it was. We all know. The story is the rest of the video before the racist clip at the end. Pushing of the ‘fake, insecure elections’ lie. I completely believe Trump‘s excuse for the post. Except for the staff part.

Inglorious Smeghead
@inglouriousactual.bsky.social

But what the hell is new about that?. It’s not news and it’s gotta stop being ‘news.’ Release your fucking pearls. You have to stop reacting to it. You have to start reacting to the fact that they’re going to do everything they can to end democracy and you need to focus on how to fight that.

Inglorious Smeghead
@inglouriousactual.bsky.social

The post was a screen record recording of a propaganda “documentary” about hacked voting machines. The racist meme auto played at the end of the clip that was being screen recorded. Trump probably started watching the video about voter fraud and immediately shared it. Yes, he’s a racist.

yarnis66.bsky.social
@yarnis66.bsky.social

No we didn't move on, there is no where to move when Black people have been experiencing this stuff by following Americans and many immigrants for decades/centuries. You don't become outraged at something that is not new or surprising

lizpell.bsky.social
@lizpell.bsky.social

Eye on Epstein. The president is part of a human trafficking org. We know of that Trump is an unrepentant racist & that he constantly flooding the zone with shit. Everyone already knows that Trump is an evil fuck - but he will never recover from child rape.

Nate
@nateheath.bsky.social

Because no one is shocked to hear that Donald Trump is a vile racist, and because he did more shocking things right before and after, making this particular racist nonsense feel like part of a normal day... Which it unfortunately is.

Amber
@amberrajen.bsky.social

DJT has been creating problems and causing chaos 24/7. Nobody has the time or resources to dwell on any of it. That’s how DJT gets away with everything.

PattyAnne
@txmeema.bsky.social

How about someone posting a pic of him and his wife on social media with their faces on 2 pigs and say it's a riff on Charlotte's Web which does feature a pig? I'd do it but I don't know how.

Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️
@amwclark.bsky.social

Some haven't forgotten 2 of the demands for apologies www.archchicago.org/en/statement... aoh.com/2026/02/08/a...

archchicago.orgStatement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, calling for an apology from the White House for a racist social media post - Statements - Archdiocese of Chicago - AoC PortalPortraying human beings as animals – less than human – is not new. It was a common way in past centuries for politicians and others to demean immigrant groups as each arrived, the Chinese, Irish, Ital...
Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social

NEW: Top U.S. Catholic bishops are demanding Donald Trump apologize for a racist post depicting the Obamas as apes. The Vatican has weighed in — and Pope Leo XIV, the first modern pope of Black descent, is watching.

thelettersfromleo.com“Nothing Less Than an Apology” — U.S. Bishops Blast Trump’s Racist Obama PostWhen Trump shared a video showing the Obamas as apes, outraged Catholic bishops denounced it as “viciously racist” and urged the former president to take responsibility — and apologize immediately.
KMG365
@starbucksgirl51.bsky.social

Now he claims the video was about voter fraud I wish the damn media would call him out on this. "You said it was a riff on the Lion King, now you say it was about voter fraud. Which is it? It can't be both. In fact, it's NEITHER" But the media sucks, so here we are w/an insanely stupid electorate

Sal
@sal-m.bsky.social

I’ve seen that show probably hundreds of times on screen and the Broadway show. Thank you for mentioning this fact.

Willie Dustice
@williedustice.bsky.social

"Somehow". The right owns approximately the entire news media, we can stop this thing where we pretend we don't understand why the media just moves on from this shit and it only gets talked about in posts.

Earonn
@earonn.bsky.social

Always moving on is what got the USA into this mess. Must be really hard to see something through, even if it's the presidency.

danharrington.bsky.social
@danharrington.bsky.social

It's the Pyramid of Outrages. He just keeps on piling one outrage on top of the other, the latest obscuring the ones that came before. Last week's racist video will only be mentioned in conjunction with a retrospective review of other outrages, and not in connection with its unique outrageousness.

Heavy D
@raidersyourface.bsky.social

I guess it's not really news anymore that Trump is a racist. It was well known the first time he was elected and completely unveiled when he was elected the second time. Racists do racist things.

Ryno
@ryno17.bsky.social

Yeah, well that’s just a testament to how seriously fucked up the Trump-Epstein administration is How many things do they do EVERYDAY that would be the downfall for ANY other presidency?