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A shocking clip briefly surfaced on Truth Social showing AI-altered images of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, and the outrage that followed was immediate and deafening. The White House ultimately removed the post and blamed a staffer for posting it “erroneously,” a rare admission that acknowledged the episode but did little to calm the mob that practices performative outrage.
Let’s be clear about what actually happened: the short, offensive image was tacked onto the end of a longer meme about the 2020 election that many conservatives believe raises legitimate questions about election integrity. President Trump has said he only saw the beginning of the clip before handing it to staff and that he didn’t view the final seconds — a chaotic social-media workflow that the press loves to turn into a scandal.
Of course, Democrats and their allies in the media escalated this into a full moral panic, demanding blood and immediate apologies while painting every conservative who asks questions as a racist. Even Republicans felt the heat — Senator Tim Scott publicly called the imagery “the most racist thing” he’d seen from the White House — and that rare intra-party rebuke was seized by the press as proof of GOP collapse.
But here’s the part the cable networks won’t tell you: when outrage becomes an industry, it’s weaponized to distract from real failures by the left — open borders, inflation, and the erosion of merit in our institutions. It’s not an excuse for racist imagery, and conservatives should call out genuinely vile content, yet we should also refuse to let the left set the terms of the debate and dictate which stories matter.
President Trump refused to apologize, insisting he “didn’t make a mistake” and pointing to his record courting working-class and minority voters as evidence that his intentions aren’t racist. That defense may not satisfy everyone, but it’s a reminder that context matters and that political theater should not replace sober judgment.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s line — dismissing the reaction as “fake outrage” and calling the clip an internet meme depicting Trump as “King of the Jungle” — shows how the White House tried to walk a tightrope between owning a mistake and fighting back against a predictable media pile-on. The post was down within a day, but the real question conservatives should be asking is who controls the narrative and why outrage now gets treated like a verdict rather than a headline.
Patriots should be unforgiving of genuinely racist conduct while also refusing to be gaslit by a media that profits from perpetual scandal. Demand accountability from the people who run the platforms and the White House, insist on fair play in the press, and don’t let manufactured moral hysteria distract you from the stakes facing our country in 2026.
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