President Donald Trump posts a doctored image showing former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, waving and boarding an Air Force One that appears to have graffiti spray-painted on it. Multiple outlets report the image portrays the Obamas standing on the stairs of the plane, which has slogans and text painted on the fuselage. Business Standard and PBS NewsHour describe graffiti that includes the phrase “Yes We Can,” the word “Obama,” and “BLM,” as well as Arabic text that Business Standard says reads “alhamdulillah.” Several sources frame the post as part of a broader pattern of Trump sharing personal, critical content about the former first couple. Stuff.co.nz and Business Standard note that the latest post follows an earlier racist image Trump shared depicting Obama and his wife as primates in a jungle; that earlier post is reported to have been deleted after bipartisan backlash. Other outlets similarly describe the image as falsified and portray it as additional targeted material aimed at the Obamas. The reports do not indicate any real alteration to aircraft or related official events in connection with the image.
Trump posts doctored image of Obamas boarding graffiti-covered Air Force One
President Donald Trump posts a doctored image showing former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, waving and boarding an Air Force One that appears to have graffiti spray-painted on it...
- President Donald Trump posts a doctored image showing Barack and Michelle Obama boarding Air Force One.
- In the image, the Air Force One has spray-painted graffiti across the plane.
- The earlier post depicting the Obamas as primates in a jungle is reported to have been deleted after bipartisan backlash.
- Some reports say the graffiti includes “Yes We Can,” “Obama,” and “BLM,” and includes Arabic text (“alhamdulillah”).
- Outlets describe the image as part of a pattern of posts targeting the former first couple.
Trump posted a doctored image of the Obamas boarding a graffiti-covered Air Force One -- the latest in a pattern of posts targeting the former first couple.
1 month agoThis follows a previous racist post by Trump depicting the Obamas as primates, which was deleted after intense, bipartisan backlash.
1 month agoIt comes months after another racist post by the US president that showed the couple as primates in a jungle.
1 month agoPresident Donald Trump on Sunday posted a falsified image of former president Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, waving before boarding an Air Force One that had been spray-painted with graffiti. It came months after another racist post by the president that showed the couple as primates in a jungle. That one was deleted after stiff, bipartisan backlash. 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's campaign slogan "Yes We Can," "Obama" and "BLM," short for Black Lives Matter. The post also shows graffiti in Arabic on the plane that says the phrase "alhamdulillah," which means "praise be to God" or "thank God." 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. Trump has a yearslong record of intensely personal criticism of the Obamas, and
1 month agoDonald Trump has posted a fake image of Barack and Michelle Obama depicting them boarding Air Force One with graffiti scrawled across the fuselage.
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