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Obama deplores lack of shame after Trump racist monkey clip
The Mercury
|February 16, 2026
FORMER US president Barack Obama criticised a lack of shame and decorum in the country’s political discourse, responding at the weekend for the first time to a post on US President Donald Trump’s social media account that depicted him and first lady Michelle as monkeys.
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FORMER US President Barack Obama has slammed ICE crackdowns.
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In a wide-ranging podcast interview with left-wing political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen released at the weekend, Obama also compared the actions of agents enforcing the president's immigration crackdown in Minnesota to dictatorships.
The video, shared on Trump’s Truth Social account on February 5, sparked censure across the US political spectrum, with the White House initially rejecting “fake outrage” only to then blame the post on an error by a staff member and taking it down.
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हजारों चुनिंदा प्रीमियम कहानियों और 10,000 से अधिक पत्रिकाओं और समाचार पत्रों तक पहुंचने के लिए मैगज़्टर गोल्ड की सदस्यता लें।
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