Feb. 6, 2026
BREAKING: Trump Caves to Backlash from Racist Repost Featuring Obamas As Apes
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RSS Feed President Trump has finally removed a jaw-dropping post from his Truth Social account, but only after Trump ally and the only Black Republican Senator, Tim Scott called on him do so. Before Senator Scott’s reaction, Karoline Leavitt doubled down and defended the video that shows Barak and Michelle’s heads on top of apes’ bodies with Trump depicted as the Lion King.
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Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it is Friday, February sixth. We are coming to you from Radio Row and the Bay Area, where, of course, the Seahawks are gonna go at it against who roads.
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Speaker 2: The Patriot there.
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Speaker 1: It is the game. Understandings, folks, We have made our way to the Bay Area. We are on Radio Row broadcasting now and even here with all the thoughts on the big game, A lot of thoughts are on the President, who says he is not going to be here, but he is making news for what some are calling the most racist thing they have seen coming out of this administration. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ, a special edition of Aby and TJ Roges. We're here the game. Yes, Trump looms large over everything he does. This frankly a super Bowl weekend is Yes, we will see the president in the interview, traditional interview. We're used to seeing the President play a part. He attended the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 3: Last year, he did last year. This year a little different. Not coming this year.
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Speaker 2: He said it was too far.
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Speaker 1: Yes, he's not coming, Romes, but why is it still He's playing such a role here.
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Speaker 3: He plays a role, and I feel like just about every thread of the fabric of.
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Speaker 2: America right now.
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Speaker 3: I mean, there isn't a story that he isn't a part of, it feels like these days.
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Speaker 2: But this perhaps was a story.
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Speaker 3: That he didn't fully appreciate just where it was headed. And I don't understand why, because I woke up this morning and you said, Robes, look at this, and my jaw I could barely wipe this sleep out of my eyes, and my jaw dropped. I could not believe what I was seeing and what I was hearing.
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Speaker 1: Okay, to be clear, I think I have it right. I showed you the image before telling you where it came, correct.
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Speaker 3: Ok Yeah, And I just I was like, I'm sorry, Why am I seeing Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's heads superimposed in a caricature way on ape bodies.
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Speaker 1: That is what happened, Folks who are not mincing words. This is not an interpretation thing. The President of the United States re posted something that somebody else put together. It was a video. The video went a minute in two seconds. The video was I guess, pawning a conspiracy theory about the election results. Fine, but at the end of that video was a clip in which you see the faces the heads of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. They were smiling right or laughing even but they were on ape bodies. Now while this image popped up and again it was only a few seconds of a minute in two second video, but it pops up and the song that's playing is from Lion King.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, a lion sleeps night in the jungle, the Mighty Jungle.
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Speaker 2: The Lion sleeps tonight.
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Speaker 1: So President Trump is depicted in the video at some point as a lion. Okay, fine, whatever robes there is there not a discussion to be had, an interpretation or whatever else. This is the most racist. This is blatantly racist, and that's nothing else to talk about.
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Speaker 3: It's disgusting, It's overt in a way that I can't even begin to describe.
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Speaker 2: It was.
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Speaker 3: It was my jaw dropped, actually literally physically dropped, because I cannot believe.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we've seen.
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Speaker 3: Look, the Internet is filled with disgusting rhetoric and hate and racism every single day. But when the President reposts something like that, it matters. It matters the tone and the rhetoric that is being sanctioned by the leader of the free world.
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Speaker 2: That is basically a license to anyone.
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Speaker 3: You can be as racist as you want, and it's okay, okay.
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Speaker 1: So and again to be clear here, I showed you this without telling you that the President had done it. I'm saying to you, folks, I'm trying to put you in the right mindset that, no matter what, this was deplorable before you found out who posted it.
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Speaker 2: It's a known racist, yes, and.
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Speaker 3: People might say, okay, well that's exactly who you're talking about.
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Speaker 2: But whatever, a proud racist, someone who is on a bachelor a racist. It's they've put it up. It still would have been jaw dropping.
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Speaker 3: But the President of the United States street posts this now.
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Speaker 1: And full disclosure, folks, we will tell you this. We are here covering, of course, the big game on Sunday. Got a lot. We have a very busy schedule. We were up local time at one am so that we could get other stuff on the air on East Coast time. So we're out here working robes. Full disclosure. We saw the story this morning and we say, ah, do we really want to do that. We're out here, Let's do something more uplifting, more fun, more good energy. We'll do the Guthrie update. We have to do that one, but let's not let's just focus on the game and then robes. We saw that the White House risks sponded to the backlash over the videos. So Miss Carolyn Levitt, the White House Press Secretary, came out and this is when we made the decision, Okay, we should probably do this.
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Speaker 2: We gotta do the story.
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Speaker 3: Because it's one thing to repost it.
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Speaker 2: It's another thing to have all the backlash that happened.
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Speaker 3: But it's a whole other level when you defend, when you attempt to defend this post.
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Speaker 1: This is a hard defense. Maybe this is defense.
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Speaker 3: Here is what Carolyn Levitt, this is how she responded to the backlash to this Trump repost.
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Speaker 2: She said, and I quote this is.
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Speaker 3: From an internet meme 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. So it was dismissive and completely missed the whole point. Refuse to take accountability and refuse to acknowledge what it was, which is putting the most prominent black couple and depicting them as apes, as monkeys, how is that not racist?
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Speaker 2: Can someone explain that, how is that not racist?
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Speaker 1: We don't have to discuss that, right, it's not. It feels silly. To go back is to give some kind of history of why you shouldn't do blackface or why you shouldn't put black folks face his own monkeys. There's a okay, we shouldn't have to go back. If you do, you do that research on your own. We're not going to do that here. But I am roses bizarre that there's anything else that can come out of something.
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Speaker 3: Oops.
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Speaker 1: He didn't look all the way to the end of the video. He's bad. Oops. But to come out and say, yes, we acknowledge what you all are upset about, and we acknowledge in telling you you don't need to be upset what they the actual f is the problem. This is just the president having some that was that's it's not tone.
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Speaker 2: Deaf that it was intentional, and you know what, It's called gaslighting. Baby. Once again, it's just gaslighting.
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Speaker 3: You are telling us that what we are seeing and what we know we are looking at isn't what we.
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Speaker 2: Know we're looking at.
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Speaker 3: We know we're looking at like the worst kind of racism ever, and you're telling us it's not that's gaslighting. It's exactly like I mean exactly. But the same concept is true with the Alex Preddy video. You're telling us we're not seeing what we're seeing. That's what Carolyn Levitt's job is now, to tell us that we're not seeing what we're seeing.
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Speaker 2: I think that's her number one job description.
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Speaker 1: I keep trying to foolishly Robes, allow to give some just to give a little space for Maybe she didn't see it. Maybe she responded, but without giving all the full I don't know.
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Speaker 2: She described it.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to leave space for something another explanation other than this place. Intentionally, this White House, my president intentionally put the black president's face on a monkey and thought it was funny and then defended it. I'm trying to find Robes. I gotta find a way. There's something in me who that it's necessary for me to believe that's not possible.
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Speaker 2: Where are you on that journey right now?
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Speaker 1: So I'm stuck in it. I'm gonna sweeart. This cannot be possible that the President of the United States is there is not a You gotta speak to us now, Ropes, you gotta say something to the black community to tell me why I should support anything. You just call me the N word.
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Speaker 2: That's what you said.
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Speaker 3: You said, this is a visual representation of calling black people the end world.
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Speaker 1: So if he does that, what is Carolyn lev gonna say? Hey, you know, just call it like we see it, like, what is what is the limit? What's the god? Robes? So we're here now talking about it, and right before we came on, after we made the decision to do this episode, then you throw something else into this mix. Oh yeah, folks. By the way, the video is now down and it only came down after I guess Robes, very prominent or maybe a black man that the president respects a little bit, spoke up.
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Speaker 2: That's correct.
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Speaker 3: We're talking about Tim Scott, and I appreciate what he did and what he said because he has been a Trump ally like he has been a Trump without a doubt. He is the only black Republican senator. He's from South Carolina in the.
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Speaker 2: History of the world.
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Speaker 3: Yes, imagine, like I actually like having My first job in television news was in South Carolina in nineteen ninety five, where, by the way, the Confederate flag was flying atop the State House when I got there, and it was on the books illegal for you and I to get married in the state of South Carolina.
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Speaker 2: So this is the history. I think we all know it.
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Speaker 1: Those are the days it is South Carolina.
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Speaker 3: So it's a I appreciate the fact that a black Republican senator from zally Alene is yes, Tim Scott from South Carolina. But he saw this and he this is exactly what he said. He went on to X and said, praying it was fake because it's the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House. The President should remove it.
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Speaker 1: He's praying it was fake.
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Speaker 2: He's actually praying it was fake.
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Speaker 1: Okay, See, I am in that lane like there's got to be some other explanation. There is no way my president willingly did this. I'm sorry. This is my president too. Yes, boy, everybody out there, this is our guy. It's hard to imagine. I'm looking for another reason for this can be right.
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Speaker 3: May I ask you if Carolyn Levitt or maybe even better, President Trump himself came out and said that out that you kind of gave him. I reposted something I thought was funny, saying I was King of the jungle or whatever.
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Speaker 2: I didn't see to the end.
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Speaker 3: I didn't see the depiction of Obama and Michelle. Yes, and I now regret posting it.
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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, this is something Yeah to you to your question, this is something you are better about than I am. Robes. You are You're always to what the president is saying. I don't at all immediately just pounce. I don't pounce on the president as as racist. This is typical. I want to see this as a problem or mistake like Tim Scott does. But to you, you are the first one to say this stuff. It sends a message and sets a tone. Robes, this is your thing. Every time it sends a message that this is okay.
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Speaker 2: It matters if the president condones this.
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Speaker 1: Is what you always that the first type of.
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Speaker 3: Rhetoric and using either it's the language he uses. Now, this is the imagery that he is uplifting and putting out to the world. I don't care if he wasn't the original author. He is promoting it and by putting it on his truth social page or his account, he is not only accepting this type of rhetoric, but actually applauding it and laughing at it.
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Speaker 2: It's not funny.
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Speaker 1: I think the next thing was Carolyn Levitt. It was that we didn't make a mistake. This is fine that I think her thing. Send it off to another stratosphere to where to your point, you always make ropes the next person, what kid out there? What? Teenager? What?
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Speaker 3: What?
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Speaker 1: Even middle school? Or certainly one young adult male. I can say whatever I want to say to somebody in the office at the grocery store my uber drive, because it's okay. It's actually okay call you monkeys. It's okay to call y'all monkeys. And it doesn't matter if you have a Harvard degree and you spent two terms as president. You ain't nothing but aim to me roums.
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Speaker 3: I mean when you really, like everyone sit down and actually think about what that messaging is saying.
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Speaker 1: Like like, I think.
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Speaker 3: People want to whitewash it, to use a a term, but they are trying to make it. Oh, it's just a joke. You can't take a joke.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it was.
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Speaker 3: More about Trump being king of the jungle and less about you know what that video did. It dehumanized the former president and the former first Lady of the United States, equating them to animals.
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Speaker 1: You know, I didn't do that deep of a dive on the responses online, but plenty of them, yes, of course, from Trump circles and conservative circles were absolutely dismissing the video and essentially saying, yeah, the president President Obama was terrible for this country, and actually to a certain degree, justifying by saying, well, yeah he's awful, Yeah he's been terrible. Yeah, this is You can disagree with politics, absolutely, it's completely fine. But but to justify this is other level. And again, we didn't plan on doing this. But now the story, Oh, we didn't even get folks to the best part story. You were waiting board. Stay with us, the best part of the story. We haven't even told you yet. Stay here when we come back. You are not going to believe how this story is now wrapping up. All right, we continue here on Amyan TJ. Robes is laughing because I did. I don't know if I buried the lead. We needed to, We needed to tell the story a certain way. But Robes, something is now happened with this story. Sorry that I don't think has ever happened with a Trump story in which he was questioned or got backlash.
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Speaker 3: He has responded, yes, and he almost always in his response doubles down or triples down. But now we have the blame game, all right, So just before noon Eastern time, the White House took down said.
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Speaker 1: Posts boom that never happens.
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Speaker 3: Never happens. And it was after Tim Scott put out what he put out. And you know what, kudos to Tim Scott for taking a stand and for saying what he said. But they blamed a staffer for the video that was reposted to President Trump's truth social account. They blamed a staffer and said the post had been removed, and that is what they're calling it now, after Carolyn Levitt already put out the state and about fake outrage, which is it?
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Speaker 1: So so now they're saying that the post should not have gone up. Correct was the mistake? After Carolyn Levitt has already said it's fake news and there was no mistake.
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Speaker 3: So Carolyn Levitt defended it and actually put the blame on like left wingers who were making.
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Speaker 2: Something out of nothing.
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Speaker 3: Right, But then now they say a staffer erroneously madrid post. But the video was up for nearly twelve hours and it was only after Senator Scott said what he said.
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Speaker 2: And you know what. Thank God he did.
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Speaker 1: God bless you Scott.
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Speaker 2: Seriously, this is can you remember I cannot think.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure it's happened, but I cannot think of a time when something like this made the headlines it made where President Trump took it down or anyway somehow backed down.
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Speaker 1: And it came metting fault into some degree. But taking it down is the admission of fault, blaming the staffer. Is it a mission that it should not have gone up? Absolutely so?
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Speaker 3: By this, now should we now not believe the source of what's coming on President Trump's truth social So now.
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Speaker 1: It's not really him. We need to wait to see if it was just a staffer.
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Speaker 3: So now can we just not take his true social posts as something coming from him, sanctioned by him, approved by him.
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Speaker 2: Do you think a staffer? I don't know. I don't know the answer to this, but I'm asking the question, is.
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Speaker 3: There are there staffers on President Trump's payroll who are allowed to just post whatever they want on his account without his Absolutely not exactly, I already knew the answer to it, but I just wanted to pose the question.
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Speaker 1: I hope he comes here, I hope he changes his mind. It comes to the game.
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Speaker 2: If Bad Bunny is anywhere near, he will not be here. He'll come with ice agents. If he comes, Tobe comes.
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Speaker 1: Sorry, we want to have on We are here for the next several days. What a start super Bowl sixty officially super Bowl sixty.
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Speaker 3: I think the Obama should comp That would be wonderful. They haven't responded, by the way smartly so we have. There's been I haven't seen a response from them.
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Speaker 1: As of this recording, and maybe we won't see one. They don't respond to everything that they've actually said in a response before. We can't respond to all the craziness coming out of here, but this one rose to the level. I don't know if this one does.
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Speaker 3: So would you respond to this though? What would be the correct response? I don't know what that is.
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Speaker 1: You know, we might need to take a moment to educate some and there might be some people in this country that don't understand what blackface might mean, what it means to depict black folks as apes and monkeys more.
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Speaker 2: You're very kind to say that.
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Speaker 1: No, I'm saying, sweetheart, if we can take I'm trying to always bring the temperature down. We're outrage is our first reaction, outrage. Whatever happens, just outrage. If we could take a minute, there might be some people who don't understand. Wait, why is that so upsetting? What's the big deal? Okay, take a minute and teach those folks maybe why that is a problem. And again I'm trying here, you know, I'm always trying foolishly so.
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Speaker 3: I know, and I think that if more people in the world had your open heart and open mind to accept apologies and mistakes.
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Speaker 2: But I haven't even heard an apology.
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Speaker 3: I've just heard, I've just seen nah ah and then just fine and then finger pointing.
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Speaker 2: I haven't heard we made a.
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Speaker 3: Mistake, and we apologize to the black community. This is not acceptable and it will not happen again on my watch.
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Speaker 2: That's what I would like to hear from the president.
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Speaker 1: You are going to wrap this episode of Amy and J because Robes is not well. That was hilarious, all right, folks. We always appreciate you spending time with us.
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Speaker 2: Oh for my you're crying, you're laughing.
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Speaker 1: Amy Robock, I am DJ Holmes. We will tell to y'all soon.
Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it is Friday, February sixth. We are coming to you from Radio Row and the Bay Area, where, of course, the Seahawks are gonna go at it against who roads.
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Speaker 2: The Patriot there.
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Speaker 1: It is the game. Understandings, folks, We have made our way to the Bay Area. We are on Radio Row broadcasting now and even here with all the thoughts on the big game, A lot of thoughts are on the President, who says he is not going to be here, but he is making news for what some are calling the most racist thing they have seen coming out of this administration. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ, a special edition of Aby and TJ Roges. We're here the game. Yes, Trump looms large over everything he does. This frankly a super Bowl weekend is Yes, we will see the president in the interview, traditional interview. We're used to seeing the President play a part. He attended the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 3: Last year, he did last year. This year a little different. Not coming this year.
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Speaker 2: He said it was too far.
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Speaker 1: Yes, he's not coming, Romes, but why is it still He's playing such a role here.
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Speaker 3: He plays a role, and I feel like just about every thread of the fabric of.
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Speaker 2: America right now.
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Speaker 3: I mean, there isn't a story that he isn't a part of, it feels like these days.
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Speaker 2: But this perhaps was a story.
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Speaker 3: That he didn't fully appreciate just where it was headed. And I don't understand why, because I woke up this morning and you said, Robes, look at this, and my jaw I could barely wipe this sleep out of my eyes, and my jaw dropped. I could not believe what I was seeing and what I was hearing.
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Speaker 1: Okay, to be clear, I think I have it right. I showed you the image before telling you where it came, correct.
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Speaker 3: Ok Yeah, And I just I was like, I'm sorry, Why am I seeing Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's heads superimposed in a caricature way on ape bodies.
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Speaker 1: That is what happened, Folks who are not mincing words. This is not an interpretation thing. The President of the United States re posted something that somebody else put together. It was a video. The video went a minute in two seconds. The video was I guess, pawning a conspiracy theory about the election results. Fine, but at the end of that video was a clip in which you see the faces the heads of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. They were smiling right or laughing even but they were on ape bodies. Now while this image popped up and again it was only a few seconds of a minute in two second video, but it pops up and the song that's playing is from Lion King.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, a lion sleeps night in the jungle, the Mighty Jungle.
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Speaker 2: The Lion sleeps tonight.
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Speaker 1: So President Trump is depicted in the video at some point as a lion. Okay, fine, whatever robes there is there not a discussion to be had, an interpretation or whatever else. This is the most racist. This is blatantly racist, and that's nothing else to talk about.
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Speaker 3: It's disgusting, It's overt in a way that I can't even begin to describe.
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Speaker 2: It was.
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Speaker 3: It was my jaw dropped, actually literally physically dropped, because I cannot believe.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we've seen.
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Speaker 3: Look, the Internet is filled with disgusting rhetoric and hate and racism every single day. But when the President reposts something like that, it matters. It matters the tone and the rhetoric that is being sanctioned by the leader of the free world.
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Speaker 2: That is basically a license to anyone.
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Speaker 3: You can be as racist as you want, and it's okay, okay.
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Speaker 1: So and again to be clear here, I showed you this without telling you that the President had done it. I'm saying to you, folks, I'm trying to put you in the right mindset that, no matter what, this was deplorable before you found out who posted it.
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Speaker 2: It's a known racist, yes, and.
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Speaker 3: People might say, okay, well that's exactly who you're talking about.
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Speaker 2: But whatever, a proud racist, someone who is on a bachelor a racist. It's they've put it up. It still would have been jaw dropping.
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Speaker 3: But the President of the United States street posts this now.
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Speaker 1: And full disclosure, folks, we will tell you this. We are here covering, of course, the big game on Sunday. Got a lot. We have a very busy schedule. We were up local time at one am so that we could get other stuff on the air on East Coast time. So we're out here working robes. Full disclosure. We saw the story this morning and we say, ah, do we really want to do that. We're out here, Let's do something more uplifting, more fun, more good energy. We'll do the Guthrie update. We have to do that one, but let's not let's just focus on the game and then robes. We saw that the White House risks sponded to the backlash over the videos. So Miss Carolyn Levitt, the White House Press Secretary, came out and this is when we made the decision, Okay, we should probably do this.
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Speaker 2: We gotta do the story.
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Speaker 3: Because it's one thing to repost it.
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Speaker 2: It's another thing to have all the backlash that happened.
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Speaker 3: But it's a whole other level when you defend, when you attempt to defend this post.
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Speaker 1: This is a hard defense. Maybe this is defense.
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Speaker 3: Here is what Carolyn Levitt, this is how she responded to the backlash to this Trump repost.
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Speaker 2: She said, and I quote this is.
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Speaker 3: From an internet meme 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. So it was dismissive and completely missed the whole point. Refuse to take accountability and refuse to acknowledge what it was, which is putting the most prominent black couple and depicting them as apes, as monkeys, how is that not racist?
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Speaker 2: Can someone explain that, how is that not racist?
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Speaker 1: We don't have to discuss that, right, it's not. It feels silly. To go back is to give some kind of history of why you shouldn't do blackface or why you shouldn't put black folks face his own monkeys. There's a okay, we shouldn't have to go back. If you do, you do that research on your own. We're not going to do that here. But I am roses bizarre that there's anything else that can come out of something.
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Speaker 3: Oops.
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Speaker 1: He didn't look all the way to the end of the video. He's bad. Oops. But to come out and say, yes, we acknowledge what you all are upset about, and we acknowledge in telling you you don't need to be upset what they the actual f is the problem. This is just the president having some that was that's it's not tone.
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Speaker 2: Deaf that it was intentional, and you know what, It's called gaslighting. Baby. Once again, it's just gaslighting.
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Speaker 3: You are telling us that what we are seeing and what we know we are looking at isn't what we.
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Speaker 2: Know we're looking at.
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Speaker 3: We know we're looking at like the worst kind of racism ever, and you're telling us it's not that's gaslighting. It's exactly like I mean exactly. But the same concept is true with the Alex Preddy video. You're telling us we're not seeing what we're seeing. That's what Carolyn Levitt's job is now, to tell us that we're not seeing what we're seeing.
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Speaker 2: I think that's her number one job description.
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Speaker 1: I keep trying to foolishly Robes, allow to give some just to give a little space for Maybe she didn't see it. Maybe she responded, but without giving all the full I don't know.
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Speaker 2: She described it.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to leave space for something another explanation other than this place. Intentionally, this White House, my president intentionally put the black president's face on a monkey and thought it was funny and then defended it. I'm trying to find Robes. I gotta find a way. There's something in me who that it's necessary for me to believe that's not possible.
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Speaker 2: Where are you on that journey right now?
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Speaker 1: So I'm stuck in it. I'm gonna sweeart. This cannot be possible that the President of the United States is there is not a You gotta speak to us now, Ropes, you gotta say something to the black community to tell me why I should support anything. You just call me the N word.
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Speaker 2: That's what you said.
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Speaker 3: You said, this is a visual representation of calling black people the end world.
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Speaker 1: So if he does that, what is Carolyn lev gonna say? Hey, you know, just call it like we see it, like, what is what is the limit? What's the god? Robes? So we're here now talking about it, and right before we came on, after we made the decision to do this episode, then you throw something else into this mix. Oh yeah, folks. By the way, the video is now down and it only came down after I guess Robes, very prominent or maybe a black man that the president respects a little bit, spoke up.
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Speaker 2: That's correct.
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Speaker 3: We're talking about Tim Scott, and I appreciate what he did and what he said because he has been a Trump ally like he has been a Trump without a doubt. He is the only black Republican senator. He's from South Carolina in the.
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Speaker 2: History of the world.
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Speaker 3: Yes, imagine, like I actually like having My first job in television news was in South Carolina in nineteen ninety five, where, by the way, the Confederate flag was flying atop the State House when I got there, and it was on the books illegal for you and I to get married in the state of South Carolina.
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Speaker 2: So this is the history. I think we all know it.
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Speaker 1: Those are the days it is South Carolina.
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Speaker 3: So it's a I appreciate the fact that a black Republican senator from zally Alene is yes, Tim Scott from South Carolina. But he saw this and he this is exactly what he said. He went on to X and said, praying it was fake because it's the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House. The President should remove it.
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Speaker 1: He's praying it was fake.
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Speaker 2: He's actually praying it was fake.
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Speaker 1: Okay, See, I am in that lane like there's got to be some other explanation. There is no way my president willingly did this. I'm sorry. This is my president too. Yes, boy, everybody out there, this is our guy. It's hard to imagine. I'm looking for another reason for this can be right.
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Speaker 3: May I ask you if Carolyn Levitt or maybe even better, President Trump himself came out and said that out that you kind of gave him. I reposted something I thought was funny, saying I was King of the jungle or whatever.
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Speaker 2: I didn't see to the end.
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Speaker 3: I didn't see the depiction of Obama and Michelle. Yes, and I now regret posting it.
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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, this is something Yeah to you to your question, this is something you are better about than I am. Robes. You are You're always to what the president is saying. I don't at all immediately just pounce. I don't pounce on the president as as racist. This is typical. I want to see this as a problem or mistake like Tim Scott does. But to you, you are the first one to say this stuff. It sends a message and sets a tone. Robes, this is your thing. Every time it sends a message that this is okay.
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Speaker 2: It matters if the president condones this.
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Speaker 1: Is what you always that the first type of.
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Speaker 3: Rhetoric and using either it's the language he uses. Now, this is the imagery that he is uplifting and putting out to the world. I don't care if he wasn't the original author. He is promoting it and by putting it on his truth social page or his account, he is not only accepting this type of rhetoric, but actually applauding it and laughing at it.
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Speaker 2: It's not funny.
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Speaker 1: I think the next thing was Carolyn Levitt. It was that we didn't make a mistake. This is fine that I think her thing. Send it off to another stratosphere to where to your point, you always make ropes the next person, what kid out there? What? Teenager? What?
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Speaker 3: What?
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Speaker 1: Even middle school? Or certainly one young adult male. I can say whatever I want to say to somebody in the office at the grocery store my uber drive, because it's okay. It's actually okay call you monkeys. It's okay to call y'all monkeys. And it doesn't matter if you have a Harvard degree and you spent two terms as president. You ain't nothing but aim to me roums.
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Speaker 3: I mean when you really, like everyone sit down and actually think about what that messaging is saying.
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Speaker 1: Like like, I think.
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Speaker 3: People want to whitewash it, to use a a term, but they are trying to make it. Oh, it's just a joke. You can't take a joke.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it was.
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Speaker 3: More about Trump being king of the jungle and less about you know what that video did. It dehumanized the former president and the former first Lady of the United States, equating them to animals.
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Speaker 1: You know, I didn't do that deep of a dive on the responses online, but plenty of them, yes, of course, from Trump circles and conservative circles were absolutely dismissing the video and essentially saying, yeah, the president President Obama was terrible for this country, and actually to a certain degree, justifying by saying, well, yeah he's awful, Yeah he's been terrible. Yeah, this is You can disagree with politics, absolutely, it's completely fine. But but to justify this is other level. And again, we didn't plan on doing this. But now the story, Oh, we didn't even get folks to the best part story. You were waiting board. Stay with us, the best part of the story. We haven't even told you yet. Stay here when we come back. You are not going to believe how this story is now wrapping up. All right, we continue here on Amyan TJ. Robes is laughing because I did. I don't know if I buried the lead. We needed to, We needed to tell the story a certain way. But Robes, something is now happened with this story. Sorry that I don't think has ever happened with a Trump story in which he was questioned or got backlash.
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Speaker 3: He has responded, yes, and he almost always in his response doubles down or triples down. But now we have the blame game, all right, So just before noon Eastern time, the White House took down said.
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Speaker 1: Posts boom that never happens.
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Speaker 3: Never happens. And it was after Tim Scott put out what he put out. And you know what, kudos to Tim Scott for taking a stand and for saying what he said. But they blamed a staffer for the video that was reposted to President Trump's truth social account. They blamed a staffer and said the post had been removed, and that is what they're calling it now, after Carolyn Levitt already put out the state and about fake outrage, which is it?
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Speaker 1: So so now they're saying that the post should not have gone up. Correct was the mistake? After Carolyn Levitt has already said it's fake news and there was no mistake.
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Speaker 3: So Carolyn Levitt defended it and actually put the blame on like left wingers who were making.
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Speaker 2: Something out of nothing.
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Speaker 3: Right, But then now they say a staffer erroneously madrid post. But the video was up for nearly twelve hours and it was only after Senator Scott said what he said.
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Speaker 2: And you know what. Thank God he did.
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Speaker 1: God bless you Scott.
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Speaker 2: Seriously, this is can you remember I cannot think.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure it's happened, but I cannot think of a time when something like this made the headlines it made where President Trump took it down or anyway somehow backed down.
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Speaker 1: And it came metting fault into some degree. But taking it down is the admission of fault, blaming the staffer. Is it a mission that it should not have gone up? Absolutely so?
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Speaker 3: By this, now should we now not believe the source of what's coming on President Trump's truth social So now.
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Speaker 1: It's not really him. We need to wait to see if it was just a staffer.
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Speaker 3: So now can we just not take his true social posts as something coming from him, sanctioned by him, approved by him.
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Speaker 2: Do you think a staffer? I don't know. I don't know the answer to this, but I'm asking the question, is.
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Speaker 3: There are there staffers on President Trump's payroll who are allowed to just post whatever they want on his account without his Absolutely not exactly, I already knew the answer to it, but I just wanted to pose the question.
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Speaker 1: I hope he comes here, I hope he changes his mind. It comes to the game.
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Speaker 2: If Bad Bunny is anywhere near, he will not be here. He'll come with ice agents. If he comes, Tobe comes.
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Speaker 1: Sorry, we want to have on We are here for the next several days. What a start super Bowl sixty officially super Bowl sixty.
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Speaker 3: I think the Obama should comp That would be wonderful. They haven't responded, by the way smartly so we have. There's been I haven't seen a response from them.
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Speaker 1: As of this recording, and maybe we won't see one. They don't respond to everything that they've actually said in a response before. We can't respond to all the craziness coming out of here, but this one rose to the level. I don't know if this one does.
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Speaker 3: So would you respond to this though? What would be the correct response? I don't know what that is.
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Speaker 1: You know, we might need to take a moment to educate some and there might be some people in this country that don't understand what blackface might mean, what it means to depict black folks as apes and monkeys more.
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Speaker 2: You're very kind to say that.
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Speaker 1: No, I'm saying, sweetheart, if we can take I'm trying to always bring the temperature down. We're outrage is our first reaction, outrage. Whatever happens, just outrage. If we could take a minute, there might be some people who don't understand. Wait, why is that so upsetting? What's the big deal? Okay, take a minute and teach those folks maybe why that is a problem. And again I'm trying here, you know, I'm always trying foolishly so.
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Speaker 3: I know, and I think that if more people in the world had your open heart and open mind to accept apologies and mistakes.
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Speaker 2: But I haven't even heard an apology.
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Speaker 3: I've just heard, I've just seen nah ah and then just fine and then finger pointing.
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Speaker 2: I haven't heard we made a.
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Speaker 3: Mistake, and we apologize to the black community. This is not acceptable and it will not happen again on my watch.
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Speaker 2: That's what I would like to hear from the president.
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Speaker 1: You are going to wrap this episode of Amy and J because Robes is not well. That was hilarious, all right, folks. We always appreciate you spending time with us.
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Speaker 2: Oh for my you're crying, you're laughing.
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Speaker 1: Amy Robock, I am DJ Holmes. We will tell to y'all soon.