Trump's post was condemned by some lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

In October 2025, the Hardin County Republican Party chair shared a similar video to the party's Facebook account, later taking it down and apologizing.

“Donald Trump’s Republican Party is nothing more than a personality cult where truth is objective, dissent is crushed and the American people have become the enemy,” Hochul said.

TRUMP'S RACIST POST: President Donald Trump removed a video clip he shared last night on his Truth Social account that depicted former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes. The White House initially defended the video, but later blamed the post on a "staffer."

Since the 1970s, the Democratic Party has realigned—a shift that might have cost Kamala Harris the White House.