Trump deleted social media post after being accused of being 'racist'

Donald Trump deleted his controversial social media post about the Obamas after he was accused of being racist.

The deletion was seen as a rare admission of guilt by the White House, and came just hours after Trump's Press Secretary Karoline Leavett dismissed backlash against the post as 'fake outrage.'

The original post was made on Trump's Truth Social account - his go-to place to sound off during his second term as President of the United States.

Outrage over the post came from both sides of the political spectrum, with both Democrats and Republicans calling for its removal.

What was the controversial social media post deleted by Donald Trump?

The social media post in question featured former US President Barack Obama and his wife, former First Lady Michelle Obama, as primates in the jungle.

The 62-second clip, according to PBS, was among dozens of posts made by Trump overnight about alleged tampering of voting machines in the 2020 election, which Trump famously lost to Joe Biden.

At the 60-second mark, there was a quick scene of two primates, with the Obamas faces superimposed onto the animals.

By noon the next day, the post had been taken down, with responsibility for the posting of the clip passed down to an oversight by a Trump subordinate.

Criticism of Donald Trump's controversial social media post

Condemnation of the clip was widespread and not just from the left-leaning political sphere either.

The Rev. Bernice King, daughter of the late civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., said that; "[Black Americans] are beloved of God as postal workers and professors, as a former first lady and president.

"We are not apes."

Criticism even came from within Trump's own party.

The US Senate's only Black Republican, Tim Scott of South Carolina, said that he '[prayed] it was fake,' and called on Trump to delete the post.

"It's the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House," Scott added.

NAACP President Derrick Johnson wholeheartedly condemned the post in a statement, saying it was 'blatantly racist, disgusting, and utterly despicable.'

He even made a reference to the equally controversial release of the Epstein files, drawing a link between the post and Trump's seeming determination to distract from the attention of the files.

"You know who isn't in the Epstein files? Barack Obama," Johnson said.

"You know who actually improved the economy as president? Barack Obama."

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