Michael Eric Dyson tore into President Trump’s racist social media submit that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.

The Vanderbilt University professor and Hip-Hop scholar referred to as Trump’s actions calculated and disgusting. Dyson spoke to WGN News after Trump shared an AI-generated video exhibiting the previous first couple as primates.

Trump posted the racist clip Thursday night time on Truth Social. The video was a part of an extended conspiracy idea rant about elections. But the Obama imagery drew quick backlash from each Democrats and Republicans.

“The dehumanizing of Black people and comparing them to apes is to suggest that they are animals, that they are creatures,” Dyson mentioned. “The dehumanizing of black individuals and evaluating them to apes is to counsel that they’re animals, that they’re creatures. People have remarked previously that Michelle Obama didn’t belong in Vogue journal; she belonged in National Geographic.

“This is the attempt to articulate and re-articulate a vicious belief that black people are not worthy of human consideration, that they are fundamentally animals, that they are closer and more akin to a state of nature where they must be somehow civilized and brought from their African home and brought here to America under the penalty of white supremacy to be made into whole human beings,” Dyson continued.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt first defended the submit. She told reporters to “stop the fake outrage.” But hours later, she blamed a staffer and mentioned the submit was eliminated.

Donald Trump refused to apologize when reporters requested him about it Friday night time. He mentioned he didn’t make a mistake.

The timing of Trump’s submit made it even worse. February is Black History Month, making the racist imagery significantly offensive.

“Donald Trump is shameless and he didn’t even apologize. He took it down and blamed it on a staffer as opposed to saying this is horrendous. He can’t do that because fundamentally, he is America’s Chief Racist,” Dyson snapped.

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