The Republican president's post immediately drew backlash for its treatment of the nation's first Black president and first lady.

UPDATED WITH WHITE HOUSE RESPONSE: Karoline Leavitt has defended an apparently AI-generated clip portraying Barack and Michelle Obama as apes shared on Donald Trump’s Truth Social account. In a statement sent to Deadline,

Trump reposts videos with famous Black people - including Diddy and Will Smith - after Obamas-as-apes Truth firestorm - ‘How quickly people forget,’ Trump lamented

The post, which spread widely, appeared to describe the president’s rationale for deleting a racist video about the Obamas that he had shared.

South Carolina Republican U.S. Senator Tim Scott publicly backed his Republican colleague Susan Collins in her bid to retain her Senate seat in Maine.

A racist video of former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama was posted, then deleted, on the president’s Truth Social account.

President Donald Trump refused to apologize Friday after posting and then deleting a racist video depicting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes in a jungle, insisting he hadn’t seen the final frames containing the offensive content and blaming a staffer for the mistake.

While President Donald Trump is facing bipartisan backlash over a now-deleted social media post that included a blatantly racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama,

President Trump shared a video late Thursday portraying the Obamas as apes. A Republican senator called it “the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House.”

Trump fired off more than 70 posts and reposts between 12:40 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. ET in a flurry just hours after flying back to DC from Davos, Switzerland. The post Few Are Spared as Trump Unleashes Dozens of Truth Social Posts in Post-Davos Midnight Barrage first appeared on Mediaite.

The Grammy winner addressed the president on her Instagram page.