A video posted and deleted on Trump's Truth Social account depicted the former president and first lady as apes, set to the Tokens’ "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."

The footage is included in a video that promotes false claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Mr. Trump.

WASHINGTON — The White House deleted a meme video posted on President Trump’s Truth Social that depicted former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as apes — after a prominent GOP senator called the clip the “most racist thing I’ve seen” and demanded it be taken down.

In a statement, the Archbishop of Chicago expressed shock and outrage, and said only "an unequivocal apology — to the nation and to the persons demeaned — is acceptable."

The late-night Truth Social post depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as primates, earning swift bipartisan condemnation before it was taken down

Karoline Leavitt slammed the “fake outrage” over depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys in Trump’s now-deleted post.