Barack Obama blasts ‘clown show’ after Trump’s racist monkey video

SCMP · 2026-02-15
Barack Obama blasts ‘clown show’ after Trump’s racist monkey video

Former US president Barack Obama criticised a lack of shame and decorum in the country’s political discourse, responding on Saturday for the first time to a post on Donald Trump’s social media account that depicted him and his wife Michelle as monkeys. The video shared on Trump’s Truth Social accoun