Trump news at a glance: Trump creates distance, but no apology, after promoting racist video of Obamas
by Guardian staff from US news | The Guardian on (#73D44)
Democrats outraged and Republicans mostly silent after president shared racist video of former president and first lady - key US politics stories from Friday 6 February
Top Democrats erupted with fury on Friday and challenged more Republicans to respond to Donald Trump posting a racist video that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.
The clip appeared during one of the 79-year-old US president's increasingly frequent late-night posting sprees to his Truth Social account, and shows the laughing faces of the former president and first lady superimposed on the bodies of primates in a jungle setting to The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
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