Trump shares video depicting Ex-US President, First Lady as monkeys

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US President Donald Trump has shared a video portraying former president Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, as monkeys.

The video was posted early Friday on Trump’s Truth Social platform alongside two posts in which he alleged irregularities in the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to Joe Biden.

Biden previously served as Obama’s vice-president between 2009 and 2017.

Trump had earlier defeated Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, to win the presidency in 2017, but went on to lose his re-election bid to Biden during his second-term run.

In a one minute clip, Phil Waldron, a cybersecurity expert, pointed to some of the “treachery” that was uncovered during the polls.

According to Waldron, five key states all stopped counting votes at the same time. The states were alleged to have used election rigging softwares as vote counting machines.

“When reporting and counting resumed, a massive spike occurred that favoured Joe Biden,” Waldron said.

Trump posted the video twice.

Barack and Michelle only appeared at the end of the video as AI-generated monkey figures dancing to the tune of ‘The lion sleeps tonight’, a famous song featured in Disney’s The Lion King animated franchise, most notably performed by Timon and Pumbaa, a meerkat and a warthog.

“Disgusting behavior by the President. Every single Republican must denounce this. Now,” a statement issued from the press office of Gavin Newsom, California governor, reads.

The video has also sparked outrage on social media, with most users accusing the president of racism