President Donald Trump embarked on a posting spree of photos on Truth Social, seemingly emphasizing his friendship with black celebrities.
This digital walk down memory lane follows his promotion of an AI-generated video of Barack and Michelle Obama featured as monkeys, along with other lawmakers as animals in a jungle setting.
That provoked a bipartisan backlash of condemnation and no apology from the President.
Instead, Trump has chosen to post through it, sharing photos with stars such as Mike Tyson, Oprah Winfrey, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Michael Jackson.
‘How quickly people forget. So Sad! President DJT,’ Trump wrote on the social media platform.
One post highlights a TikTok video with images of Trump shaking Will Smith’s hand, kissing black babies, hugging Winfrey and hanging out with Snoop Dogg.
The post is ironically captioned: ‘A Timeline of Trump’s bigotry.’
But it does not stop there.
In one post, the President explained how he was one of the few to back Michael Jackson after he was accused of being a child molester
Donald Trump posted a spree of photos on Truth Social, seemingly emphasizing his friendship with black celebrities, such as Star Jones
Trump and Oprah Winfrey at Tyson vs Holmes Convention Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, the President and Melania Trump together at an event
Nicki Minaj joins the President to launch Trump Accounts in Washington, DC, last month
Trump and Jesse Jackson attend Tyson-Spinks Boxing Match on June 27, 1988
In one post, the President explained how he was one of the few to back Michael Jackson after he was accused of being a child molester.
He reposted a video explaining his relationship with Jackson, with the caption: ‘Donald Trump values loyalty greatly – and he was extremely loyal to Michael Jackson.’
Trump also shared an old clip of Winfrey from another user who wrote, ‘Oprah wanted Trump to run for president in 1988 on the same exact policies he holds today. Interesting.’
The social media posting barrage comes after the White House took down a video that featured the Obamas with their heads on the bodies of monkeys in the jungle.
The video started off with the Lion King song lyrics, ‘In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the Lion sleeps tonight.’
Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt initially defended the video, calling it ‘an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters of The Lion King.’
However, the post was taken down several hours later – and the administration pinned the blame on a staffer, saying they ‘erroneously made the post.’
Members of Trump’s own party pushed back on the video, with Senator Tim Scott, the only black member of the Senate, describing it as the ‘most racist thing’ he has seen coming out of the White House.
Last year, Trump posted an AI video of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wearing a swirly mustache and sombrero. Jeffries condemned the photos, calling them racist.
On Friday, reporters asked the President about the post. Trump said the first portion of that video was actually about election rigging.
‘I didn’t make a mistake,’ Trump started explaining. ‘I mean, I look at a lot of… thousands of things. And I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine… I guess it was a take on The Lion King. And certainly it was a very strong post in terms of voter fraud.’
