Sharon Reich-Garson

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President Donald Trump is condemning a racist video posted to his Truth Social account depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.

But he's not apologizing for it.

Here he is speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Friday night.

Trump says he didn't watch the entire video, which also pushed false claims about voter fraud in the 2020 election.

Asked if he plans to apologize, Trump says he doesn't think he needs to.

The White House initially defended the post as an Internet meme, then deleted it 12 hours later.

Backlash to the video was swift and bipartisan.

Republican Senator Tim Scott, a close Trump ally, saying in a post on X that he was, quote, praying it was fake.

and describing it as the most racist thing he'd seen out of this White House.

Reporter Jarrett Renshaw is traveling with the president.

I spoke to him earlier, and he says there's no talk of anyone being fired, but this does raise questions about how the president's social media content is vetted.

Russia has launched a massive overnight air attack on Ukraine, with President Volodymyr Zelensky saying more than 400 drones and 40 missiles have hammered energy infrastructure as temperatures plunge towards 6 degrees Fahrenheit.

In a post on X, Zelensky's accused Russia of using the cold as leverage against Ukraine, saying Russia could choose real diplomacy, but it chooses new strikes.

Moscow hasn't immediately commented on the attacks.

The strikes come just days after U.S.-brokered peace talks in Abu Dhabi, where Washington's been pushing for a deal by summer.