There has been a significant backlash against Donald J. Trump’s latest racist post on his Truth Social platform, where he shared a video featuring former President Barack Obama and his wife portrayed as apes, and all of this during Black History Month. A few Republicans have denounced it and said that Trump, a raging narcissist, should apologize. Imagine Trump ever apologizing for anything. That’s just not going to happen.
Rep. Mike Haridopolos joined CNN’s John Berman, and his response to the highly offensive post was to change the subject, as if calling out a racist post was too much for the Florida lawmaker.
“Congressman, I want to ask you about a video that President Trump posted on Truth Social overnight,” Berman said. “He’s got millions of followers there. The video was about voter ID and election reform. But at the end, and I don’t know if you can see this, it included a brief image of the Obamas, an overtly racist image of the former first lady and the president as apes here.”
“Now, it was at the end of the video,” he continued while seemingly giving Trump an excuse. “I don’t know for sure whether the president saw it, but is this the type of message a president of the United States, under any circumstances, should be sending out to millions of people?”
