President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0on Sunday posted a falsified image of former\u00a0President Barack Obama\u00a0and his wife,\u00a0Michelle Obama, waving before boarding an Air Force One that had been spray-painted with graffiti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It came months after another\u00a0racist post\u00a0by the president that showed the couple as primates in a jungle. That one was deleted after stiff, bipartisan backlash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The latest image shows the Obamas smiling and waving at the top of stairs alongside a baby blue and white presidential plane with graffiti painted on it that included the Democrat\u2019s campaign slogan \u201cYes We Can,\u201d \u201cObama\u201d and \u201cBLM,\u201d short for Black Lives Matter. The post also shows graffiti in Arabic on the plane that says the phrase \u201calhamdulillah,\u201d which means \u201cpraise be to God\u201d or \u201cthank God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The use of graffiti is a coded message to remind people of crime and urban decay and has been used in racist messaging against Black people in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump has a yearslong record of intensely personal criticism of the Obamas, and of using incendiary, sometimes racist, rhetoric. That includes everything from feeding the lie that Obama was not born in the United States to crude generalizations about majority-Black countries and posts that have sparked anger on his Truth Social website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The president\u2019s racist post of the Obamas as primates came in February, during the first week of Black History Month. It was removed following widespread criticism from civil rights leaders and Republican senators. Trump refused to apologize, however, and a staffer was later blamed for making the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0on Sunday posted a falsified image of former\u00a0President Barack Obama\u00a0and his wife,\u00a0Michelle Obama, waving before boarding an Air Force One that had been spray-painted with graffiti. It came months after another\u00a0racist post\u00a0by the president that showed the couple as primates in a jungle. That one was deleted after stiff, bipartisan backlash. The latest image […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/god-bless-usa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}