Kentucky GOP Chair Apologizes For Racist Obama Video

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Right here’s a query: Why can’t these white individuals simply depart the Obamas alone?

Come Jan. 20, 2026, it would have been a full decade since Barack and Michelle Obama occupied the White Home for eight years, and neither Trump, his followers, right-wing media speaking heads, nor the present president’s stooges within the MAGA-fied GOP have gotten over it.

Earlier this week, Bobbie Coleman, the chairperson of the Hardin County Republican Occasion in Kentucky, shared an AI video on the county get together’s Fb web page that depicted the Obamas as apes, and now he’s apologizing for the since-deleted submit, whereas pretending it simply slipped his thoughts that calling Black individuals monkeys is racist AF.

Now, to be honest, the AI video additionally depicted a number of different distinguished Democrats as animals within the jungle, whereas depicting Trump — the president all of them swear will not be a king — as a lion, the king of the jungle.

The video, which seems to be a parody of Disney’s The Lion King, additionally reveals Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Hilary Clinton depicted as Timon and Pumba, respectively, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and California Gov. Gavin Newsom as donkeys (there aren’t any donkeys in The Lion King, however no matter), Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker as an elephant, NYC Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as a hyena, Sen. Chuck Schumer as a zebra and Kamala Harris as a turtle. And, whereas Joe Biden was additionally depicted as a banana-eating chimp, the video opening with the Obamas as dancing apes with Sambo-like, open-mouth grins — nicely, that definitely appeared to be a really deliberate selection.

“I apologize for sharing the video and for amplifying offensive imagery of former President Obama,” Coleman wrote on Fb, in response to the Lexington Herald-Chief. “As somebody who doesn’t have interaction with racist tropes, I didn’t contemplate the underlying that means that this video might have had. I’m not racist, and any suggestion on the contrary doesn’t mirror my values or character.”

If I had a dime for each time a white particular person made a monkey reference about Black individuals after which pleaded ignorance of the racist implications of the reference, I’d simply barely have the ability to afford what Trump’s tariffs have accomplished to the U.S. economic system.

However, additionally, does actually everybody within the Republican Occasion have the mentality of a pre-pubescent youngster?

It was already unhealthy sufficient that our rattling close to 80-year-old toddler-in-chief is usually sharing immature AI movies to mock Democrats, together with one which berated Jeffreys and Schumer forward of the federal government shutdown, and one Trump shared of Obama being arrested after Director of Nationwide Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claimed she can be launching an investigation towards the previous president, absurdly alleging that he and his nationwide safety Cupboard members manufactured intelligence relating to Russian interference within the 2016 election to “lay the groundwork for what was basically a years-long coup towards President Trump.” (By the way in which, what ever occurred to that? It was like the one factor Trump and his MAGA stooges have been speaking about for a pair weeks straight, however we’ve heard nearly nothing about it within the three months since. It’s nearly as if all the non-scandal was precisely the manufactured partisan bullsh*t most of us knew it was.)

And, once more, why can’t they simply depart the Obamas alone? Why are Republicans consistently sharing racist Obama memes and fearmongering about Michelle working for president when she has mentioned repeatedly she has no intention to take action and blaming the previous president for present occasions he had nothing to do with and pointing the finger at him for continued racial rigidity in America, as in the event that they didn’t spend all eight years of his presidency calling him a Muslim foreigner and launching the racist-a** “birther” motion towards him?

Look, the monkey video was racist, we shouldn’t imagine for a second that Coleman or anybody else who shared it didn’t comprehend it was racist, and these racists are nonetheless letting the previous president and first girl reside of their racist heads rent-free.

Unhappy.