Obama Hits Back at Trump Over Racist AI Meme, Turning War Into a 'Video Game' [View all]
Source: MEDIAite
May 4th, 2026, 5:41 pm
Former President Barack Obama offered his take on President Donald Trump posting an AI-generated image of him and his wife depicted as apes earlier in the year, which was widely decried as blatant racism. Obama spoke about the moment in a new interview with The New Yorker’s Peter Slevin — published on Monday.
“I don’t take it personally,” Obama said. “I mean, I’m always offended when my wife and kids get dragged into things, because they didn’t choose this…That’s a line that even people whose politics I deeply reject, I would expect them to care about. I would never talk about somebody’s family in that way.”
Slevin reported more details on his conversation with Obama, noting that the former president said he was actually more concerned about the Trump White House posting AI-generated images and memes that treat war and death “like a video game” and showed “excrement dumped on ordinary citizens.”
“I mean, I’m a fair target in the sense of, yeah, you can feel free to pick on me, because I’m your own size,” Obama said of Trump’s posts that target everyday Americans.
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