It featured at the end of a larger video making unsubstantiated claims about election fraud, but when the White House was first asked why the POTUS had shared such racist imagery, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt decried the questions as ‘fake outrage’.
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Speaking on the latest episode of Brian Taylor Cohen’s podcast, Obama said: « First of all, I think it’s important to recognize that the majority of the American people find this behavior deeply troubling. »These comments have been Obama’s first since the video was shared, which the White House ultimately blamed on a staffer who ‘erroneously made the post’ and removed.
At the time, Senator Tim Scott simply called it ‘the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House’.
Typically for the former president, he did not want to get into the weeds about why the video had been shared from Trump’s account. Instead, Obama set it in a wider context, adding: « It is true that it gets attention. It’s true that it’s a distraction.
« You meet people, they still believe in decency, courtesy, kindness, and there’s this sort of clown show that’s happening in social media and on television. »
While he did not mention Trump by name, Obama went on to blast the lack of ‘decorum’ in public office.
He continued: « And what is true is that there doesn’t seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sort of decorum and a sense of propriety and respect for the office, right?
