President Trump confirmed Thursday that he hasn’t fired or disciplined the staffer who posted a Truth Social clip exposing Michigan’s 2020 voter fraud—despite leftist hysteria over an auto-played Lion King meme snippet depicting the Obamas as monkeys.
The manufactured scandal saw RINOs and liberals demanding heads roll, but Trump dismissed it as a tired clip that’s “been all over the place many times,” focusing instead on the video’s core message of election integrity.
The controversy kicked off when Trump shared a screen-recorded video tearing apart the rigged 2020 election, highlighting suspicious ballot spikes tied to Dominion Voting Systems. But at the end, it auto-transitioned to an unrelated AI-generated meme reel showing Michelle and Barack Obama as chimpanzees, Kamala Harris as a turtle, Joe Biden as a baboon, and other Democrats as various animals—with Trump as the lion.
Democrats and media outlets like NBC News and The Guardian pounced, branding the fleeting clip “racist” to deflect from the voter fraud revelations. Even Senator Tim Scott joined the pile-on, calling it “the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House” and urging Trump to delete the post.
Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it. https://t.co/gADoM13ssZ
— Tim Scott (@votetimscott) February 6, 2026
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt fired back at the selective fury, stating, “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King. Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.”
The hoax unraveled fast, as screen recordings showed the meme auto-playing after the election fraud segment, with a swipe back to the original content. Yet, even after the contrived outrage had fizzled, a reporter tried desperately to revive it during a Thursday press interaction.
The reporter asked: “Mr. President, have you fired or disciplined that staffer who posted the video from your account that included the Obamas?”
Trump responded directly: “No, I haven’t. That was a video on, as you know, voter fraud, a fairly long video, and they had a little piece and had to do with the Lion King. It’s been very well…It’s been shown all over the place long before that was posted.”
President Trump told CBS News' @weijia he hasn't disciplined or fired the staffer the administration said shared a racist video to the president's Truth Social account.
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 12, 2026
The election conspiracy video shared on Trump's account that included racist footage depicting former… pic.twitter.com/bXiGCERIcn
He continued, “But that was a, that was a very strong, if you, and I’m sure you saw it, a very strong piece on voter fraud. And the piece that you’re talking about was all over the place many times, I believe, for years.”
When pressed he stated, “I didn’t make a mistake.” Adding “It was a take on The Lion King.”
Leftists’ playbook hasn’t changed: twist context and jump on anything to smear conservatives and shield their own corruption, from weaponized DOJ antics to open-border chaos.
As this episode fades, it highlights the media’s obsession with cartoons over real threats like election security, proving once again that the real fraud is in their selective reporting.
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