Video with racist clip pulled from Trump social media
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Keith Adams, and in the early hours of the 7th of February, these are our main stories. Condemnation across the US political spectrum prompts the White House to remove a racist video on President Trump's Truth Social account. More international figures are embroiled in the web of connections around the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as further details emerge from the release of his emails, photos and files. and the seemingly B-movie blockbuster taking the film world by storm, the growing buzz around the vampire and blues horror Sinners. Also in this podcast... Two hours. I've spent two hours waiting for the fuel tanker to arrive and no sign of it.
We don't know if it's coming. Fuel shortages in Cuba reach critical levels. The government says it's ready for talks with the US about solving the crisis.
What racist video did Trump share on social media?
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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.
I mean, if I look at a lot of thousands of things and I looked at the beginning of it, it was fine. They had that one post and I guess it was a takeoff.
What are the implications of the Epstein files on political figures?
By the way, a lot of people covered. If you look at where it came from, a lot of I guess it was a takeoff on the Lion King. and certainly it was a very strong post in terms of voter fraud. Nobody knew that that was at the end. If they would have looked, they would have seen it, and probably they would have had the sense to take it down.
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.
What the president has done is gone beyond racial profile. This is raw rank racism when the president of the United States of America, who knows or should know the history of this country and how persons have used this image of persons of African ancestry to be associated with persons who are members of the monkey family. For the president to do this, and to do it openly and notoriously, is showing that he condones this level of racism.
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.
Trump says that he only saw the first part of the video, the part that rehashed unproven claims of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential elections. He says he didn't see the part of the video that included the racist clip of former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, which depicted them as apes. When asked if he renounces that racist part of the video, President Trump said, of course. But he fell short of making an apology, saying that he himself didn't make a mistake.
And there's been angry responses by the Democrats to this video, hasn't there, as well?
There has been a lot of angry responses by the Democrats. The leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, asserted that the video had been done intentionally. saying that President Trump's behaviour was, quote, vile and racist. He himself has accused Trump of racism last year after the president shared an AI image depicting Jeffries, who's black, with a moustache and sombrero. The California governor, Gavin Newsom's office, also posted that the video was disgusting and said that every single Republican should denounce the video.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:59
2
What racist video did Trump share on social media?
0:59–1:46
3
What are the implications of the Epstein files on political figures?
1:46–5:27
4
What emergency measures has Cuba implemented due to fuel shortages?
5:27–13:48
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How did Trump respond to the backlash over the video?
13:48–29:27
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