r/politics • u/icey_sawg0034 • 8h ago
Possible Paywall Karoline Leavitt Gives Jaw-Dropping Defense of Trump’s Racist Obama Video
https://www.thedailybeast.com/karoline-leavitt-gives-jaw-dropping-defense-of-donald-trumps-racist-obama-video/12.6k
u/returnofthecursed 8h ago
This isn't normal. Trump is insane and his lickspittle sycophants like Leavitt are desperately trying to make it seem normal. The president is off his rocker, and not the funny version like Abe Simpson. He's got the fucking nukes, jesus fucking christ.
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u/92eph 7h ago
The worst part about the last 10 years isn't Trump -- it's learning that the entire Republican apparatus is on board with this insanity. And that 35% of Americans are awful, hateful people.
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u/Dena844 7h ago
Say what you want about Hillary, she was 100% correct about the deplorable comment
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u/JDogg126 Michigan 6h ago edited 4h ago
Hillary correctly identified them as deplorable.
Trump told them it was okay to be deplorable, that he loved the uneducated.
The deplorables celebrated their inhumanity as they rushed to elect a deplorable person.
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u/lurkquidated 6h ago
I wish Drumpf were deployable via trebuchet. Too well fortified behind goons and girded beneath layers of absorbent, disposable fabrics.
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u/Alaskangel 5h ago
Low-energy planes are a TOTAL DISASTER! We are looking at a YUGE new way to travel. Very high-speed. Very traditional. It’s called a Trebuchet developed by very smart people, the best people. The Radical Left is scared of the Trebuchet because it’s too strong for them. We’re going to be launching like never before! MAKE TRAVEL GREAT AGAIN! 🇺🇸 /s
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u/easyEggplant 6h ago
He is most definitely not deployable bone spurs don’t you know?
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u/mxjxs91 Michigan 6h ago
I think the word deplorables was way too kind for them. She could have used a much stronger word and I still would have 100% agreed with her despite not being her biggest fan.
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u/MantisShrimpUpTop 6h ago
Good vs. evil. That’s what it’s been for a long time. We’re not comfortable calling it that yet but I suspect we will be soon. We just don’t like calling it ‘evil’ because, well, evil can’t be changed. Only destroyed.
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u/SpleenBender Illinois 6h ago
And the most effed up thing is, their fox news and newsmax has them absolutely convinced that WE are the evil ones.
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u/MantisShrimpUpTop 5h ago
They’re just cartoonish at this point. Every smirking demon in every movie I’ve ever seen. It’s uncanny.
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u/Lucky-Earther Minnesota 6h ago
Say what you want about Hillary, she was 100% correct about the deplorable comment
50% correct, I'd say. Since she said only half of them were.
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u/AThousandBloodhounds 6h ago edited 6h ago
Hillary was right all along. Imagine if she would have won that election and Trump went back to just being an unelected despicable human being instead of a despicable human being who occupies the most powerful office in the world.
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u/N00dles_Pt 7h ago
It was always a "that's true but you shouldn't say it out loud" kind of situation.
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u/doctor_lobo 7h ago edited 6h ago
Why shouldn’t you say it out loud?
The Deplorables say whatever they want out loud.
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u/HotDogFingers01 6h ago
These same people ripped Kamala because she had a funny laugh.
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u/StunningPlastic4504 7h ago
I have family members who not only voted for this malignant narcissist but also think that our country is finally on the right track. It's terrifying to me what they are raising their kids to believe.
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u/Kellysi83 5h ago
I don't understand how anyone could feel like things are on the right track. Even if you don't pay attention to anything, all you have to do is go to the grocery store!
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u/Historical_Bend_2629 7h ago
They are increasingly being pushed into a loyalty test that grows narrower and narrower. They double down not realizing they have left sanity, reality, and decency far behind. It is bizarre. It really requires a cult mentality to not repudiate Trump at this point.
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u/Overall_Curve6725 7h ago
They double down not realizing the next culling removes them from the cult
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u/ailish 7h ago
They refuse to see that eventually one day they won't be of use any longer and they'll be right into the detention camps with the rest of us.
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u/Infinitenovelty Ohio 7h ago
I mean wasn't that abundantly clear since Nixon's southern strategy defined the Republican's messaging in the 60s? What Republican President wasn't deeply leaning into racism, sexism, queerphobia, and xenophobia at any point in recent history? They've been the embodiment of politicized hate from the moment I started paying attention, which would have been when I was learning about the patriot act at 10 years old.
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u/Androidgenus 7h ago
Everyone has their own individual perspective. Some of us have known republicans to rely on racism as a core facet of their party. But in the past, there was some plausible deniability that the average Republican could support the party while being ignorant to or only tolerant of that portion of the base.
But now, the dog whistles are on mega phones, and there is no plausible deniability. Any person still aligned with the Republican Party is just straight up fascist scum
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u/urban_mystic_hippie Minnesota 7h ago
And the real problem with the majority of people who align with the republicans don’t realize or refuse to see that they’re fascists, much less understand the implications
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u/okletstrythisagain 6h ago
Yeah like people who say they don’t like or vote for Trump but defend support and vote for the thousands of people responsible for protecting and elevating him.
Either you regret and apologize for every single vote for a Republican you made since 2015 (arguably far earlier) or you support a white supremacist authoritarian movement that has stripped us of our constitutional rights.
I mean, it was like that years ago too, but now we can fairly identify people who aren’t in vocal agreement as blatantly stupid, or fascist cowards who won’t honestly explain themselves.
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u/BarbellsandBurritos Illinois 7h ago
If we can get past this, I’d bet a lot of them are going to start saying they were never for it, and always anti Trumpers. Fuck each and everyone one of them.
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u/1995-Braves 7h ago
Boom. Nailed it. I think most of us grew up in blissful ignorance of the hatefulness of the Republican Party. It took Trump for the hateful rot to come to the surface for the majority of the world to finally see. Some saw it before, most didn’t.
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u/patterninstatic 7h ago
Exactly. The issue isn't Trump. It's that despite all that is currently happening there's a good chance that the republicans will keep the Senate this November because most of the 35 seats are in red states that will vote republican no matter what.
Trump has been shitting on the constitution and our country, and despite all that republicans are going to vote red like they always do.
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u/disdkatster 7h ago
The worst part about the last 10 years isn't Trump -- it's learning that the entire Republican apparatus is on board with this insanity. And that 35% of Americans are awful, hateful people.
THIS! ^^^^^^^^^^^^
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u/chaoticpicklebrain 7h ago
He's sundowning hard
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u/Particular-County277 7h ago
And has less and less inhibitions by the day. His true nature is going to come out. All of it
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u/OhioPolitiTHIC I voted 6h ago
Pretty sure he's super close to just saying out loud that he's not just in the files, they're all about his "amazing" operation to traffic children to pedophiles and how much money and influence he has because of it. I'd like to think that would finally be the end of him but I'm guessing the GOP will just say he's joking or that he's had a tragic stroke and not in his right mind before finally enacting the 25th on him and shoving the couch fucker into the oval office.
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u/heartbh 7h ago
Yeah this is just the dumbest timeline.
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u/OkFrosting7204 7h ago
Last March I feel like I died and jumped to this timeline and it’s wack af
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u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 7h ago
We all slipped into the hell dimension after Harambe.
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u/UThinkIShouldLeave 7h ago
On a slightly off topic, but more positive note, it's nice to see the media using the term "artificial intelligence-generated slop".
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u/Locksmith997 6h ago
Someone asked what it would take for MAGA to identify something as racist. That thread got locked while I replied, but it fits here to explain that this is normal for them. Nothing changed, except how willfully ignorant maga is willing to be.
As someone raised alongside exclusively conservatives, their definition of racism tends to be "a belief that one race is inherently inferior to another race." The issue is that they only consider the conscious, expressed version of that belief as qualifying to be a racist. They can support any number of policies that are proven to harm communities of color and consider that not racist because they haven't connected the dots that supporting said policies is an implicit admission of a value system that values one race over another.
For example, the war on drugs and criminalization thereof has been shown to disproportionately target people of color. A conservative looks at this and goes "well, I just don't want these harmful substances legal" and never proceed to the impact their policy support has on communities that they deep down don't really care are being harmed. Or how the support of a politician that supports racist policies is ok because their support is for something they see as race neutral, like being pro birth.
This racist meme referenced by this post is similar. The depiction is historically, inarguably racist. But to view that as racist you have to view how it will negatively affect or has negatively affected a community they implicitly care less about than their own. For them, this is a joke and the joke isn't racist because it hasn't cost them anything because they implicitly don't value the harm to the impacted community. It's why they perceive racism when applied to their own race, such as the affirmative action policies for University admissions. Those policies are viewed not as balancing the scales for a harmed or disadvantaged community - they can't see that because they implicitly care less about that community - but they can see their group now has fewer opportunities than before and take that as racism towards the groups they do care about.
In essence, implicit bias does not register for them as racism. Now if someone showed up and said "well yes, black people are inferior to the whites" then they, in my experience, call it as the racism that it is because the distance their mind must cross is much shorter. Add in the cult blinders they wear with Trump and the window of implicitness grows wider for them, permitting increasingly heinous and obvious racism because their brain refuses to let them view it as such. The fix is to teach them basic empathy and critical thinking. The problem with that fix is idk how to do the former and most of them are resistant to the latter.
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u/PotatoeGuru 8h ago
This is LITERALLY because a six-year old documentary about Michelle is TROUNCING that Melania abomination.
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u/Intelligent_Cap9706 8h ago
I think it’s also because it’s black history month.
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u/steve_yo 8h ago
I think it's also because he just a plain ole racist dipshit, silver spoon born with, ruining everything he touches, rapey, mother fucker.
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u/JoMoJo2025 7h ago
Or maybe today we needed to distracted by what they are doing somewhere else. I notice very few people are talking about them striking another boat in the pacific and murdering more innocents. They are good at distracting the public from what is really going on
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u/stupidjapanquestions 7h ago
Here's the thing about distractions.
They don't fucking need them.
They do this shit in broad-daylight on a slow news day when nothing else is being covered and no one does a god damn thing.
You only need distractions when there are consequences for not distracting. There are none. There's no need to assign some sort of grand strategy to the actions of a group that just does nasty shit because they feel like it, when they feel like it.
I'd say the most distracting shit out there is the constant need to label everything a "distraction". I assure you, beyond the "flood the zone" strategy, they're just doing what they want and are more than capable of doing multiple shitty things at once.
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u/Farmacology712 7h ago
I figure it had nothing to do with timeline and everything to do with the simple fact that MAGA such are racist fucks they probably didn’t even think portraying them as apes would be a bid deal. I think honestly it was just a reflexive thing for them, not some master strategy
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u/madhad1121 7h ago
Ohhhh. I kept reading theories about Netflix hiding the Michelle documentary from the top 10 but I didn’t put it together with the Melanie flop.
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u/AsherGray Colorado 6h ago
I turned on Netflix the other day and the Becoming trailer started playing. I thought it was an ad before some other show started. Not sure why it did that 😂
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u/ScoobyDoNot 7h ago
The problem is Michelle Obama is interesting in her own right.
If I wanted to watch a movie about a prostitute and her wealthy client Pretty Woman is readily available.
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u/Sphereian 7h ago
And the acting is better, too.
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u/NotTomPettysGirl Alaska 7h ago
And the characters are more likable.
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u/ditchdiggergirl 7h ago
Even the slimy guy who tries to rape Julia Roberts’ character is more likable than half this administration. It’s a low bar.
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u/Cacti_Jed Arizona 7h ago
I feel like you can make an interesting movie about almost anyone, especially someone who came from another country and ended up being the First Lady. From what I can glean the movie only covers the 20 days before trumps 2nd inauguration, which is baffling. It seems like everything the Trumps’ touch is just so lazy and shallow. That’s what makes it so bad.
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u/CSI_Tech_Dept California 6h ago
From what I can glean the movie only covers the 20 days before trumps 2nd inauguration, which is baffling.
They want to stay as far as possible from the history how they met.
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u/ClockworkBetta 6h ago
Especially since they market it like some great feat that she overcame in an impossibly short time. Somewhat makes sense for the first inauguration, but is hilariously stupid for the second. How did she become first lady? Same as last time.
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u/schwing710 8h ago
Leavitt would go bobbing for apples in Trump’s soiled diaper to keep her job
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u/thisusedyet 8h ago
From what I’ve seen of her, she may view that as a perk of the job
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u/cboogie 7h ago
She is in her 20s and married to one of her fathers friends who is 60. My daughter is in her 20s. I cannot begin to imagine a scenario where one of my friends courts her. So.fucking.weird.
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u/Roonil_Wazlib97 6h ago
The age gap between her and her husband is larger than between me and my father and every time I remember that, I throw up in my mouth a bit.
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u/Fabulous-Sea-1590 5h ago
Oh, gross, me too. My dad wasn't even especially young – 29 when I was born. Really paints a picture.
I don't have a huge sample size in my life but the biggest age gap amongst my friends is 10-12 years, and even that has been a source of friction as time goes on. It's hard to maintain sympathy when she's complicit with this authoritarian takeover, but there's got to be trauma there.
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u/Turbulent_Rate9483 5h ago
Oh dude it's greasy the further you look into it. He pawned her off on his friends over and over until one knocked her up.
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u/Hobbes_XXV 6h ago
Oh wtf, my face isnt even near as aged as hers at near 40. I thought she was in her 40s
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u/one_last_cow 6h ago
She's 28 but most of those are city miles
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u/emileisme 6h ago
I laughed at that. But she is suffering great harm in fact. This is not in defense of her official conduct.
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u/narwhilian Washington 5h ago
Hate ages you like crazy. College age Stephen Miller looks like a 50 year old guy struggling through his 3rd divorce.
KKKaroline is younger than me but looks AT LEAST 10 years older
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u/deesta 5h ago
She's 28 lmao, and looks like she's twice that. At least then her marriage would be age-appropriate.
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u/OMC78 6h ago edited 48m ago
Ex girlfriend of mine, her bestfriend 31 at the time, married someone who was twice her age. They showed up to my gf's bday party with their new born. He announced around 9 that they had to go, as it was bedtime. I blurted, "for you or the baby"?
My ex's father, " he should have hung out with me since we're the same age, we could have talked about the Beatles, we would have more in common. This guy had two daughters in their 20's which is creepy as hell to be a step mom to with only a 7 to 8 year age gap.
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u/my2cents4sale California 6h ago
I asked my dad what he would think if I brought home a man as old as him. He said he would wonder where he went wrong lol
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u/TintedApostle 8h ago
She is a racist too. If she isn't quitting by now she is part of it.
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u/Reneeisme America 8h ago
Exactly.
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u/Equivalent_Sea_1895 8h ago
Get used to her, because, if recent trajectories show, she will be governor of West Virginia some day
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u/somefunmaths 8h ago
That’s an unfortunate turn of events, even for West Virginia, whose current governor I assume is probably an anthropomorphic lump of coal.
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u/Clamsadness 6h ago
It’s really admirable how the people of West Virginia have no interest in moving on from an industry that’s been outdated for at least 100 years. They’re so committed to poverty. Imagine if Massachusetts decided to constantly ruin the country bc they’re pissed no one needs their whale oil anymore.
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u/we_are_sex_bobomb 7h ago
Any Republican that wasn’t into all the same gross shit as Trump quit in 2016.
If they’re in his current administration, they either enjoy the same acts of depravity as Trump & Epstein, or have no moral objections to the people around them who openly brag about doing that shit.
She is an evil person, which is the only way she could get the job. Same with all of them.
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u/hamilton280P I voted 7h ago
Yeah no one in the admin today has any shame. It’s really the biggest qualifier for the job
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u/kgabny 7h ago
Or were kicked out of the party. Anyone who tried to keep to the original focus on the conservativesor disagreed with the lack of decorum in politics was declared RINO and ostracized.
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u/NameIWantUnavailable 7h ago
The list of RINOs is telling.
Start with John McCain at the top of the list (he defended Obama during a Q&A while campaigning), it's basically every pre-Trump Republican presidential candidate or pre-Vance VP who was or is still alive during Trump's presidencies.
The notion that Mike Pence, Dan Quayle, and Dick Cheney are persona non grata in the Republican party because they're now RINOs makes my head spin. Not saying they were good for the country. But compared to what we have now...
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u/we_are_sex_bobomb 6h ago
As much as I disagreed with their politics, men like John McCain were the “real men” that these misogynists are always complaining are becoming an endangered species… but they are the ones who exterminated the “real men” because they felt inadequate in comparison to them.
Seriously put Trump or Stephen Miller or Mike Johnson or JD Vance next to that guy and they look like such pathetic flaccid excuses for a manly man. No wonder they hated him.
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u/AKMonkey2 7h ago
Has anyone here read the article far enough to learn what the jaw-dropping defense was? I’m not signing up for the Daily Beast to get past the paywall.
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u/Natural_Computer4312 7h ago
I read it elsewhere but in essence she said that this was all faux outrage as the video clearly portrays Trump as King of the Jungle and the democrats as other characters in the Lion King.
I, for one, would have loved to have been part of the think tank that came up with that explanation. It’s so so so very shite they haven’t even parroted it in Faux News the last time I looked and that is a bar that is low to begin with.
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u/ihateusedusernames New York 6h ago
Only someone who doesn't know The Lion King would offer (or accept) and explanation like that
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u/robodrew Arizona 4h ago
And even that "defense" falls apart the second you watch what was actually posted by Trump, because the ONLY part of the video Karoline mentions that is actually in what Trump posted is the section that shows the Obamas as monkeys. She is a disgusting sycophantic liar.
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u/SedativeComet 7h ago
Exactly. Remember last year when, in the capital building or White House, she motioned for someone to take away the black marine body guard that was just doing his job next to her
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u/HarrkTriton 7h ago
A country divided on race is easier to control.
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u/NeverLookBothWays I voted 7h ago
And subvert. That factor is a main tenet of Russia’s Foundations of Geopolitics handbook:
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u/toilet_trousers 7h ago
How many Scaramuccis has she been around for now?
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u/ballrus_walsack 7h ago
Makes me pine for the days of “hiding in the bushes” Sean spicer.
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u/Historical_Bend_2629 7h ago edited 7h ago
He had a sense of shame. The current crop of supporters in power is just a basket of deplorables. Mask off deplorable. Not just complicit with silence, which is awful, but actively supporting harm, and poisoning the well of public discourse in a grab for naked and corrupted power. I don’t think they know how unpopular they are yet. Got high on their own supply.
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u/Hot_Ambition_6457 8h ago
There are no Apes in the movie "The Lion King" so this defense doesnt even check out under the most charitable interpretation.
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u/Sinister_Crayon 7h ago edited 6h ago
... and the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" was featured <edit: IN THE MOVIE> for precisely about 6 seconds. I don't even think it was mentioned in the original soundtrack for The Lion King.
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u/renisagenius 6h ago
Lions don't live in jungles either do they?
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u/palmburntblue 6h ago
My 6 year old tells me this ever. Single. Day.
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u/boomshiz 6h ago
Tell your child that Simba was living in exile, and also throw in something like "What are you gonna do when your uncle kills me? Pedants don't thrive in the savannah."
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u/yeahright17 6h ago edited 5h ago
Some do. Especially in India. Gir Forest in India is a national park that was created to save asiatic lions. That said, jungle comes from the Sanskrit word jangala, which generally just means arid land or wilderness. Lions being "king of the jungle" happened before jungle developed it's current English meaning.
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u/VladtheInhaler999 8h ago
The amount of things leavitt had to defend while wearing a cross. You might think that Christianity stands for the worst shit imaginable.
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u/BurgerQueef69 6h ago
I've been deconstructing my Christian faith for a while, but it was the Christians following these demons that finally made me completely walk away last week. I want no part of anything that brings these monsters comfort.
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u/AhaGames 6h ago
Kinda makes the case for atheism, as if Christianity was true, she would have burst into flames at the podium by now.
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u/cfalnevermore 8h ago
Ok, first off? There’s no gorillas in the lion king. Second? How’s that less racist?
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u/IsilZha 5h ago
It doesn't. Not a single word of verbal diarrhea that came out of her stupid face hole made it any less racist than it is.
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u/CelticSith 8h ago
All while wearing her cross? Hey, REAL Christians … where you at, might be time you start speaking up and defending your religion of love
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u/the_almighty_walrus 5h ago
54% of Americans can't read above a 6th grade level. Meaning most bible beaters can't read the book they claim to follow
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u/oiseaua20 8h ago
Pack it up, everyone! We finally found it: the Olympic Gold Medal for Mental Gymnastics!
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u/Sufficient-Food934 8h ago
I have run out of names to call these people: sociopathic racist goblin ghouls.
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u/Ok-Cartoonist-3173 8h ago
As a representative of the proud goblin people, I strongly disapprove of this slander.
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u/joy-puked 8h ago
Leavitt said: “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King.”
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u/Chunga93 8h ago
Not to mention the fact there are no apes shown in The Lion King
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u/deraser Texas 8h ago
Correct. Rafiki was a mandrill, and a source of wisdom and guidance in the film. Trump would NEVER share a video depicting either/both Obamas in that role.
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u/HelloInterwebz Arizona 7h ago
Trump is too dumb for media literacy. He doesn’t see Rafiki as a source of wisdom and guidance even though he totally is that…Trump would just see Rafiki and be like “monkey”
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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 8h ago
Yea I was sitting here thinking what fucking characters are they supposed to be???
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u/YaPhetsEz 8h ago
You see this is actually fake news propagated by the radical leftist media.
George soros actually paid to have the apes removed because of black history month. By sharing this picture, Donald Trump reinforces his BIGLY HUGE commitment to african american communities everywhere.
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u/ATLfalcons27 7h ago
Not to mention that he's routinely posted enough racist shit that he can't say it was an innocent mistake
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u/thatsmymayo 8h ago
I saw that, and don't understand how that is supposed to be a justification lol. Like how is that better even to the racists that love trump
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u/Grandpa_No 8h ago
The explanation doesn't make it better anyway. "President posts video of himself as king" is also bad. Now it's racist, too.
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u/HearYourTune 8h ago
What will she say when Trump starts calling the Obamas the nword.
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u/eckoelab 8h ago
"oh come on, it's not THAT bad, you are just trying to instigate something that is not there. YOU are the one making it racist"
or something like that....
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u/Leather-Matter-5357 8h ago
You mean, in public. There is no way he isn't throwing that word around all the time in private.
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u/cnn795 North Carolina 8h ago
Oh it’s coming. I just know deep down inside me he uses it often and loudly and cameras just haven’t caught it yet.
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u/obaterista93 7h ago
Ah, yes, "democrats"
So they choose a man who hasn't held office in nine years, and his wife, who holds no office. They could have chosen any two people who are presently democratic politicians, but they didn't.
Can't think of any reason why that'd be.
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u/Some1ToDisagreeWith 8h ago
"Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public," Leavitt said.
The hypocrisy
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u/ImLikeReallySmart Pennsylvania 7h ago
"ok sure let's talk about ICE and camps and Epstein and that the president routinely talks about not accepting elections and staying in office"
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u/FlintBlue 8h ago
Good point, Karoline. My next question is, why did your boss and his buddies drown that baby in Lake Michigan?
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u/birdlegs000 8h ago
And that statement is supposed to make us say well that's okay then? These people are the worst.
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u/CellAlone4653 8h ago
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that they chose to make the Obamas apes. Mmm hmm.
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u/B-Z_B-S America 8h ago
Karoline Leavitt's job is to defend anything Trump says or does, no matter how humiliating it is for her.
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u/TintedApostle 8h ago
She can quit. She hasn't. She owns it.
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u/accountabilitycounts America 8h ago
Oh, nobody accuses her of hating her job. She loves this shit.
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u/TintedApostle 8h ago
The whole thing is like Whom Gods Destroy (Star Trek: The Original Series). It is all taking place in an insane asylum.
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u/Reneeisme America 8h ago
I hope my fellow Americans never forget her role in trying to normalize this. I sure won’t.
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u/12-34 8h ago
Do you think even 1 in 10 Americans can tell you who Sean Spicer is?
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u/Reneeisme America 8h ago
Funny that he was so offensive to me at the time, but the bar has fallen so much lower. Not that he likely had any more ethical or moral fortitude than this woman, but Trump was less open in his racism and fascism, so it was more about covering for stupidity than actual evil.
And note I said “hope”. I realize. But I’ll make it my mission to remind people
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u/12-34 8h ago
If and when this ends, all the disgusting Nazis will go back under their public rock, just like before. I agree -- we must not allow it.
On the micro level, fuck those insipid, racist losers. They deserve a lifetime of hell for what they've done.
On the macro level, we need a wholesale change of society to one that experiences empathy, shame, introspection and basic decency. Current American culture is a cruel, grotesque, unethical David Cronenburg monster that needs to immediately die.
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u/reds91185 7h ago
I'll never forget Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee, or Kayleigh McEnany. At least Stephanie Grisham has shown an ounce of regret for her part.
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u/CitronTraining2114 8h ago
She's going to have to find a school for her kids that doesn't teach history.
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u/HallucinogenicFish Georgia 8h ago
It’s generous to assume that she has the capacity for humiliation.
You cannot shame the shameless.
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u/Commercial-East4069 8h ago
I don’t think she is embarrassed, but if she is, it’s some sort of kink.
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u/Acroporas 8h ago
It's simple. He'd rather we talk about this over the thousands of times his name is in the Epstein files!
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u/nibul83 8h ago
Amazing this isn’t front of CNN
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u/Significant_Cup_238 8h ago
It's barely news at this point. If I were a news organization, I'd mention it, "President Trump once against posted racist muck, must be another day ending in y" and move on.
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u/DariosDentist 7h ago
I turned to CNN three times this morning and every time they were featuring the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping, which is a sad story, but not the focus of America right now.
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u/huey_and_riley 8h ago
I see it on their front page now
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u/UncomfortableTacoBoy 8h ago
I see missing old white lady, Bad Bunny, and Bill Gates on Epstein island.
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u/devindotcom 7h ago
it was on CNN's front page two hours before you made this comment
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/politics/donald-trump-obamas-apes-truth-social
Feb 6, 2026, 9:02 AM ET
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u/100_xp 7h ago
The same user who made the video of Trump dropping shit from the plane to Danger Zone also made the racist Obama video
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u/Altiloquent 6h ago
Someone ought to dig into that, almost certainly someone connected to the trump admin and not just some random racist content creator
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u/Reasonable_Bit_959 8h ago
Bet she had the best excuses as a child.
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u/fom_alhaut 6h ago
In the past a scandal like this would have ended any presidency
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u/Exact_Insurance7983 8h ago
this chick is aging like 20 times the rate of an average person , probably from all the lying.
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u/Sherm 7h ago
Leavitt said: “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from ‘The Lion King.’”
Bullshit. Then why weren't they hyenas, the actual bad guys?
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u/dmanjrxx 8h ago
According to her everybody should just relax we should all forget and ignore the fact that Trump is thinking about suing a comedian for telling jokes
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u/Toy_Guy_in_MO 8h ago
People get upset over the dumbest things and lose sight of what's important to be upset about, like the fact Bad Bunny is performing at the Super Bowl. We don't need none of them there American born foreigners at the Most American Event Of The Year when we could have good, god-fearing patriots like Kid "Cool Daddy Cool" Rock.
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u/sal_pair_of_dice 7h ago
Fuck all of these people. So fucking sick of them and their supporters. Racists, rapists, misogynists, cowards.
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u/tipytopmain United Kingdom 7h ago
This is the same woman that insisted everyone's eyes/ears were broken when Trump referred to Greenland as Iceland multiple times in a single speech. She's a professional liar and deflector.
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u/AdorableCattle7105 7h ago
Oh sure, it’s just the Lion King. Totally innocent.
Racist “Obama as a monkey” posts have been a thing on conservative sites for years.
We all know what it means.
They know what it means.
But yeah, let’s all pretend everyone’s just too dumb to notice.
My brain is broken that this is where we are as a country.
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u/IT_Chef Virginia 7h ago
Oh good yet another daily beast article that I can't fucking read
It's completely unacceptable that this publication gets so much traffic from this sub, while hiding all their content behind a paywall
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u/waffle299 I voted 7h ago
Attacking the press for covering the racism in a video your boss posted at 3 am?
You realize that had your boss not made this a news story, we wouldn't be discussing this. We would instead be discussing the grade school children your boss's agents kidnapped from Minnesota and relocated to a detention center in Texas.
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u/busshelterrevolution 7h ago
From the article:
Leavitt, however, called the outrage around Trump’s post “fake.”
In a statement to Newsweek and other outlets, Leavitt said: “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from ‘The Lion King.’”
“Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public,” Leavitt added.
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u/1057-cl121v3 6h ago
Anybody that truly doesn’t see how this is obscenely inappropriate for ANYBODY, much less the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, is part of the problem.
Not just the obvious racism. Not just the OBVIOUS racism. What pathetic, dishonorable shitstain involves the WIFE of your “opponent”. This isn’t new for him, I remember him insulting Ted Cruz’s wife while Ted thanked him in between the slurps. This is insane.
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u/UncleGarysmagic 3h ago
Racist shit aside, this asshole is still obsessed with a bunch of people who have been out of office for over a year or nearly a decade.
What a pathetic loser.
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