The Michael Knowles Show
Ep. 1909 - The Supposedly "Racist" Trump Post Explained in 5 Minutes
10 Feb 2026
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Chapter 1: What do American Olympians criticize about their country?
More American Olympians criticize America. Vice President J.D. Vance becomes the highest ranking U.S. official ever to visit the first Christian country in the world. And we enter day four of faux outrage over President Trump's posting a supposedly racist meme about Barack Obama. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
Thank you.
Welcome back to the show. Zoran Mamdani, peace be upon him, is quoting the Quran to defend his sanctuary city policies in New York.
Chapter 2: Why is Vice President J.D. Vance's visit to Armenia significant?
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Chapter 3: What sparked the outrage over Trump's supposedly racist meme?
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Chapter 4: What exactly did Trump post that caused controversy?
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Chapter 5: How does the context of the meme change its interpretation?
Code Knowles. Unlock 15% off exclusion supply. Before we get to anything, we have to cover the most important news story, according to the libs and the centrists and even the squish Republicans. And that, of course, is President Trump's, see if you can follow me,
President Trump's posting a video to Truth Social about election fraud that at the very end, for like a second or two, auto-scrolls to another video, which is a meme that had Barack and Michelle Obama had their heads placed on gorillas. Did you follow that? Did you follow where you're supposed to be outraged? I know it's a little distant.
Also, by the way, President Trump took down the video and said a staffer posted it, which is pretty likely. You're supposed to be outraged of that.
Chapter 6: What are the implications of Eileen Gu's comments on Trump?
We're on day four of the outrage, not just from the libs, which would be one thing, but from multiple US senators, all these squishy types. So just want to put all the cards on the table here. Let's examine it. We have to examine it. It's four days of this. We got to examine it. What exactly did President Trump post?
Initiated by a court order, the Michigan investigation team obtained forensic access to a DS-200 tabulator, the machine that counts the votes. A Tellit 4G wireless chip manufactured in Taiwan was discovered embedded into the motherboard. The voting machine tapes clearly indicate modem engagement and transmission of election data.
Chapter 7: How does the judge's decision in a recent rape case reflect societal issues?
some of the anomalies that we noticed in the 2020 general elections, that five key states all stopped counting at a certain time in these key battleground states. These were all where the software, Dominion machines, ES&S machines were used, the Smartmatic, the GEMS software.
So when the vote stopped counting, and this has been noted in other countries as well, President Trump was significantly ahead. When reporting and counting resumed, there was a massive spike occurred that that favored Joe Biden.
OK, OK. So I know if you're only listening, you could maybe hear it there at the very end where you get that Lion King. Right. That for that one and a half seconds. There was this image of Barack and Michelle Obama with their heads on monkeys.
Chapter 8: What are the broader implications of J.D. Vance's visit to Armenia?
And this was very, very racist, of course. This is proof that Trump hates black people. This is the only thing that anyone knows about this post. 99.9% of the post was about... voting machines and the potential of rigging in the 2020 election. But then there was this thing at the end, which I think very clearly was just an auto scroll like you get on Instagram or Twitter or anywhere else.
You play the video and then a new video pops up. Anyway, in any case, that's the one that everyone's focused on. So this is proof that Trump is really racist. So I said, okay, you know, it's not really tasteful to put black people's faces on monkeys. I certainly agree with that. So I don't think he did this intentionally. I don't think he posted this.
He obviously thought it was distasteful because he took the video down when he even got to the very end, if he got to the end the first time he saw it. But I said, let me go back to the original video. not the voting machine one. I'm talking about that one that autoplayed there at the end. I'm even skeptical that that video is racist.
Not because of putting black people's faces on monkeys, but I'm skeptical of it because the libs have been lying about everything when it comes to Trump. So you know what? Let me just go back. I found the original video. Here's the original video. I'll describe it to you if you're only listening. So we've got Barack and Michelle and their heads are on monkeys. Okay.
Okay, that's a little distasteful, I think we'll say. And then there's Hillary's like a warthog. And then Hakeem is there. AOC's a donkey. As is Newsom, Pritzker's an elephant. Zoran is a leopard. Hold on, pause it, pause it. There's the key. Joe Biden is a monkey. So if this video, which is just all the Democrats looking like animals, and then the punchline is Trump comes in as the lion.
And they say, the lion sleeps tonight. He's the lion and they're all a bunch of animals. But if it were only black people as monkeys, I might be able to understand the outrage a little bit. So it's kind of distasteful, isn't it? But that's not what happened. Because here you have Joe Biden, Vice President to Barack Obama, and then the Democrat president that followed him as a monkey.
Furthermore, in that very image, you got Joe Biden as a monkey eating a banana, and then you've got Kamala as a turtle. Now Kamala, I'm reliably informed, is a black woman of color. So if this were a racist thing, Kamala would be the monkey and I guess Biden would be the turtle.
And it would actually make more sense for Biden to be the turtle because Joe Biden's really slow and he's like 200 years old. So the craziest part about this, and I haven't really seen people talking about this, is, yeah, okay, yes, it's distasteful to put black people's faces on monkeys. Sure, fair enough. Trump clearly didn't intend to do that. He almost certainly didn't even see that.
He might not have posted the video himself. Very likely he did not. He's got other things on his plate. And posting a video is a little more complicated than just sending out a tweet with a few lines that you type yourself. But beyond that, What everyone seems to agree on, including the conservatives, is but the original video in context is racist. And the fact is, it's not.
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