Donald Trump shares TruthSocial video that makes President Obama look like a monkey
President Donald Trump shared a video on Truth Social depicting former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as monkeys.
President Donald Trump sparked criticism on Sunday, April 12, after posting and then deleting an AI-generated image of himself depicted as Jesus on Truth Social, which quickly sparked a backlash from the religious community, calling it blasphemous and blasphemous.
This is not the first time President Trump’s social media posts have caused a stir. The president regularly uses Truth Social to circumvent traditional media, often gaining attention for posts that critics have described as inflammatory, misleading and offensive.
Here are 10 of President Trump’s most controversial social posts this season.
President Trump posts an AI image of himself that resembles Jesus
On April 12, the president posted an image of himself dressed as Jesus on his Truth social account.
The post showed Trump, wearing a white robe, placing his hand on the forehead of a man lying in bed. A light shines in Trump’s other hand, and a light also shines around the sick man’s head. An American flag flies in the background as a bald eagle flies nearby.
The image was removed from President Trump’s social media feeds after harsh criticism from Trump supporters. The president later defended the post and pushed back against the idea that he was comparing himself to Jesus in an image shared on April 13.
“I actually posted it, but I thought it was me as a doctor,” the president told reporters at a White House event on April 13. “I just heard about it and I said, ‘How did you come up with that?'” he added. It’s supposed to be me as a doctor who makes people better, and I actually make people better. I make people better. ”
President Trump calls Pope Leo XIV “weak” and “terrible”
Just before posting the now-deleted AI Jesus photo, Trump posted a long message on Truth Social criticizing Pope Leo
“I don’t want a pope who criticizes the president of the United States because he’s doing exactly what I was elected to do in a landslide,” President Trump said in a post on Truth Social on April 12. “Leo should behave himself as a pope, use common sense, stop pandering to the radical left, and focus on being a great pope, not a politician.”
Hours later, the pope responded to Trump’s comments, saying he was “not afraid” of the Trump administration and calling the name of the president’s social media platform “Truth Social” “ironic,” but did not elaborate.
AI-generated video depicts Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys
In February, President Trump posted an apparent video meme depicting former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama as monkeys, but the post was ultimately deleted after bipartisan backlash.
The minute-long video, released on February 5, featured footage discussing baseless allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, before briefly cutting to a clip of the Obamas that appeared to be created using artificial intelligence. The image of the Obamas featured the remains of two monkeys, whose faces had been replaced with those of the former president and first lady. They looked like they were in the jungle with monkeys flying in the background.
The White House initially dismissed criticism that the video was racist, saying it was derived from a meme depicting President Trump and the Obamas as characters from “The Lion King.” Trump posted the video without text just before midnight on February 5th, but it was deleted by noon ET on February 6th.
Asked about the video aboard Air Force One on February 6, President Trump told reporters he had only seen the beginning of the video and had no intention of apologizing.
“I didn’t make a mistake. I looked at it the first time and it was fine,” the president said on his way from Washington to the Florida resort of Mar-a-Lago.
Trump says Rob Reiner had a ‘ferocious obsession’ with him after his death
Shortly after the death of director and actor Rob Reiner on Dec. 14, President Trump said on Truth Social that his death was “reportedly due to the anger he provoked in others due to a debilitating illness known as Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
“He was known for driving people crazy with his rabid obsession with President Donald J. Trump,” the president added in a Dec. 15 social media post. Trump continued to criticize Reiner in the rest of his message, calling him “tortured and suffering” and describing his view of the president as “an enormous, humiliating, incurable pain.”
The message came a day after Reiner and his wife, Michelle Singer, were murdered in their Los Angeles home on December 14th. There is no suggestion from officials that Reiner’s death had anything to do with his political beliefs.
Amid ‘No King’s’ protests, President Trump posts ‘AI poop’ video
During the nationwide “No Kings” protests in October 2025, President Trump posted an AI-generated video that appeared to show him wearing a crown, piloting a fighter jet labeled “King Trump,” and dropping feces on protesters below.
The post was one of several shared by Trump throughout the day. But it struck a chord with some Americans and social media users, who demanded answers from the White House about why the video was posted in the first place.
President Trump lashes out at Iran
The president escalated tensions with Iran earlier this month when he used profanity in a Truth social post and threatened to attack Iranian infrastructure if the Strait of Hormuz remained closed.
“Tuesday is Power Plant Day and Bridge Day rolled into one in Iran. There’s no better day than this!!!” Trump wrote in an April 5 post on Truth Social. “Open the F—— Channel, you crazy bastard, or you’ll live in hell – look!” The president signed the message, “Praise be to Allah.”
The United States and Iran have since struck a fragile ceasefire, but peace talks earlier this month failed to reach an agreement. President Trump has issued similar warnings to Iran on social media, including that it may have sea mines in the strait.
President Trump: ‘Entire civilization will perish tonight and we will target Iran’
President Trump took to social media again on April 7, threatening Iran as a deadline looms for the United States to target the country’s critical infrastructure if it does not open the Strait of Hormuz.
“Tonight, an entire civilization will perish, never to rise again,” Trump wrote. “I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”
The US did not target infrastructure and instead struck a fragile ceasefire with Iran.
President Trump uses slur in social media post
President Trump also came under fire over Thanksgiving after posting a series of anti-immigrant messages on Truth Social, including one that disparaged Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
In a Nov. 27 post, Trump accused political leaders of allowing the country to be “divided, confused” and “ridiculed” over immigration policy, then singled out Minnesota and used the so-called “r-word” to describe the state’s Democratic governor. The term was once used medically to describe people with intellectual disabilities, but is now widely considered offensive and is frequently cited by advocacy groups as harmful and demeaning.
Disability rights groups have been campaigning to stop using the term, but it has started to appear again, including on Joe Rogan’s podcast and Elon Musk’s social media posts.
President Trump is ‘glad’ over Robert Mueller’s death
President Trump did not offer online condolences or condolences for former special counsel Robert Mueller, who died on March 20, instead reacting to his death on Truth Social on March 21 in a manner that people would later call “shocking.”
“Robert Mueller just passed away. I’m glad he’s dead,” President Trump posted on Truth Social. “He can no longer hurt innocent people! President Donald J. Trump.”
Mueller, who served as special counsel in the investigation into possible Russian interference in President Trump’s favor during the 2016 presidential election, died at the age of 81 after a years-long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He served as FBI Director from September 4, 2001 to September 4, 2013.
President Trump accuses Democrats of ‘sedition’
On November 20, 2025, President Trump accused Truth Social of committing “seditious acts punishable by death” in numerous posts after a group of six Democratic congressmen released a video urging soldiers to refuse illegal orders.
“This is called sedition at the highest level,” Trump wrote. “Each and every traitor to our country must be arrested and brought to justice. Their words cannot be ignored – we no longer have a country!!! We must set an example.”
“Sedition, punishable by death!” he added in a later post.
Some Democrats and officials later described the president’s message as “appalling” and threatening. President Trump clarified in a November 21, 2025 interview on the FOX News radio program “The Brian Kilmeade Show” that he was “not threatening to kill” members of Congress.
“I think they’re in deep trouble,” Trump added in a Nov. 21 interview. “In the old days, it was death.”
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