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Condemnation across the US political spectrum prompts the White House to remove a racist video on President Trump's Truth Social account.

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First, to the United States, where the White House has removed a video shared on President Trump's Truth Social account depicting former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes in a jungle.

The clip appeared at the end of a video promoting conspiracy theories about fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

It remained online for about 12 hours.

President Trump has now acknowledged the video was racist, but has declined to apologise and

And he says the video was taken down as soon as the White House found out about it.

No, I didn't make a mistake.

Well, the post quickly sparked condemnation across the political spectrum, which the White House initially dismissed as fake outrage, but it later blamed the post on a staffer who it said had erroneously shared it.

Democratic Congressman Al Green said the incident crossed a clear line.

In a social media post, Tim Scott, the only black Republican currently serving in the Senate, said he thought it was the most racist thing he'd seen come out of this White House.

From Washington, here's our correspondent Simi Jola-Asho.

And there's been angry responses by the Democrats to this video, hasn't there, as well?

And some Republicans have, haven't they?