President Donald Trump’s racist social media post featuring former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle was deleted Friday after a backlash from both Republican...

US President Donald Trump has posted an election conspiracy video that depicted former president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as apes, drawing condemnation from prominent Democrats.

The White House initially defended the video, calling the bipartisan backlash "fake outrage," before deleting it hours later in a rare backtrack.