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2026年2月12日，唐纳德·特朗普总统在华盛顿白宫罗斯福厅听取了记者的提问。
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美国总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)周四表示，他没有处分或解雇他和白宫表示在其社交媒体平台上发布视频的工作人员，该视频包括奥巴马夫妇的种族主义动画。
特朗普继续淡化将前总统巴拉克·奥巴马(Barack Obama)和前第一夫人米歇尔·奥巴马(Michelle Obama)描绘成猿的形象，这是一种用来非人化黑人的种族主义比喻，上周他在社交媒体账户上分享了这一形象。
邮报遭到广泛反对后被删除，包括几位呼吁特朗普道歉的共和党人——到目前为止他拒绝道歉。
“你有没有解雇或处罚那个从你的账户上传视频的员工，包括奥巴马夫妇?”周四，一名记者在白宫的一个不相关的活动中向总统提问。
“不，我没有，”特朗普说。
“正如你所知，那是一个关于选民欺诈的视频——相当长的视频——他们有一小段与《狮子王》有关，”特朗普说。
这段一分钟长的视频于上周四晚上11点44分发布在特朗普的社交媒体平台上。它主要集中在关于2020年大选的被揭穿的说法上，但在接近尾声时，奥巴马夫妇的脸突然出现在猿猴的尸体上，没有任何解释，歌曲“狮子今晚睡觉”正在播放。
白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特(Karoline Leavitt)首先驳斥了对该视频的批评，称其为“虚假的愤怒”，并表示奥巴马夫妇的种族主义动画来自一个“互联网迷因”，将特朗普描述为丛林之王，将民主党人描述为各种动物。
但是到了上周五中午，一名白宫官员声称“一名工作人员错误地发布了这个帖子。”
那天晚上晚些时候，特朗普坚持说他“没有犯错误”，在他把视频交给“人民”发布到他的账户之前，他没有看到整个视频。
特朗普对记者说:“一般来说，他们会看整个事情，但我想有人不会，他们发布了消息，我们就把它撤了下来。”
当被问及他是否谴责视频中的种族主义部分时，特朗普说，“我当然谴责。”但在向被冒犯的美国人传达他的信息时，特朗普说，“嗯，我没有消息。”
莱维特和川普引用的那个模因视频是肯塔基州哈丁县共和党10月份在脸书分享的。它的主席发表了道歉，并在迅速反弹后删除了帖子，指出了将黑人描述为猿或猴子的种族主义比喻的悠久历史-奴隶贩子和种族隔离主义者的工具。
特朗普周四淡化了这一事件，他说，奥巴马夫妇的种族主义动画起源的视频“我相信，多年来到处都是。”尚不清楚互联网迷因的确切创建时间。
Trump hasn't disciplined or fired staffer he says posted video with racist image of Obamas
President Donald Trump said Thursday he hasn't disciplined or fired the staffer he and the White House say posted the video on his social media platform that included a racist animation of the Obamas.
Trump continued to downplay the image depicting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes, a racist trope used to dehumanize Black people, that was shared to his social media account last week.
The postwas deleted after widespread backlash, including from several Republicans who had called for Trump to apologize -- which he's so far refused to do.
"Have you fired or disciplined that staffer who posted the video from your account that included the Obamas?" a reporter asked the president on Thursday as he took questions at an unrelated event at the White House.
"No I haven't," Trump said.
"That was a video on, as you know, voter fraud and -- fairly long video -- and they had a little piece and had to do with The Lion King," Trump said.
The minutelong video was posted on Trump's social media platform last Thursday night at 11:44 p.m. It largely focused on debunked claims about the 2020 election, but near the end abruptly showed the Obamas' faces on the bodies of apes without explanation and the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" playing over it.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt first brushed off criticism of the video as "fake outrage" and said the racist animation of the Obamas was from an "internet meme" that depicted Trump as king of the jungle and Democrats as various animals.
But by noon last Friday, a White House official claimed a "staffer erroneously made the post."
Later that night, Trump maintained he "didn't make a mistake" and that he didn't see the entire video before he gave it to "the people" to have it posted to his account.
"Generally,they look atthewhole thing, but I guess somebody didn't, andthey posted and we took it down,"Trumptold reporters.
When asked if he condemned the racist portion of the video, Trump said, "Of course I do." But pressed on his message for Americans who were offended by it, Trump said, "Well,I have no message."
That meme video referenced by Leavitt and Trump was shared by the Hardin County Republican Party of Kentucky on Facebook in October. Its chairman issued an apology and deleted the post after swift backlash noting the long history of racist tropes depicting Black people as apes or monkeys -- a tool of slave traders and segregationists.
Trump on Thursday, as he downplayed the incident, said the video where the racist animation of the Obamas originated "was all over the place many times, I believe, for years." It's unclear exactly when the internet meme was created.
