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Trump news at a glance: Trump creates distance, but no apology, after promoting racist video of Obamas

People at inauguration
Trump with Melania and Barack and Michelle Obama before Trump’s first inauguration at the White House on 20 January 2017. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

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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