{"id":2859,"date":"2026-02-06T23:54:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=2859"},"modified":"2026-02-06T23:54:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:54:05","slug":"trump-slammed-for-posting-vile-video-on-truth-social-depicting-barack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=2859","title":{"rendered":"Trump slammed for posting \u2018vile\u2019 video on Truth Social depicting Barack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The outrage over Donald Trump\u2019s Truth Social post wasn\u2019t just about another meme. It revived one of the oldest, ugliest racist tropes in American history, targeting Barack and Michelle Obama under the thin disguise of \u201cjungle\u201d humor and Lion King references. For many watching, it felt less like politics and more like a deliberate act of dehumanization broadcast from the heart of a presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>What cut deeper was the divide in the reaction. Some users, even former Trump voters, publicly expressed shame and regret, saying this crossed a line they could no longer ignore. Others cheered him on, focusing only on the election-fraud narrative and dismissing any concern as \u201cfake outrage.\u201d Between those two responses sits a country exhausted by cruelty, wondering how much further its leaders are willing to go just to score another viral moment.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outrage over Donald Trump\u2019s Truth Social post wasn\u2019t just about another meme. It revived one of the oldest, ugliest racist tropes in American history, targeting Barack and Michelle Obama &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}