Donald Trump slammed for posting social media video depicting Obamas as monkeys

The final seconds of the clip show an AI-generated frame where the faces of the 44th US President and former First Lady are artificially imposed on the bodies of apes.

Meanwhile, the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" plays in the background.

The video also repeatedly issues false allegations voting ballots enabled fraud in the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to Joe Biden.

In particular, it discusses voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems.

As of Friday afternoon, the post had received over 3,000 likes on the social media platform Truth Social.

It comes as the US President posted more than 60 times in less than two hours overnight, including the video about rigged voting machines.

X user Xerias claimed credit for the edited video, which is intended to mock Mr Trump's list of rivals while depicting him as a lion, King of the Jungle, and lying on a hammock.

White House Secretary Karoline Leavitt said: "This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from The Lion King.

"Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public."

The office of potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate and California governor, Gavin Newsom, said: "Disgusting behavior by the President. Every single Republican must denounce this. Now."

Former Deputy National Security Adviser and close confidant of President Obama, Ben Rhodes, also condemned the post.

"Let it haunt Trump and his racist followers that future Americans will embrace the Obamas as beloved figures while studying him as a stain on our history," he wrote on X.

Political strategist Adam Parkhomenko wrote: "This is overt racism. Full stop. There’s no ‘misinterpretation’ and no excuse. This is who he is, who he’s always been, and why he should never be anywhere near power again."

George Conway, the ex-husband of the President's 2016 campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, reminded his followers that he had been calling Trump out over racism since 2019.

The Obamas, elected in 2008, were the first Black President and First Lady in American history.

President Trump's controversial post was not the first time he has used artificial intelligence to depict the 44th US President.

Last year, he posted a video of Mr Obama being arrested at the Oval Office and appearing behind bars in an orange jumpsuit.

Speaking to House Republicans at their annual retreat last month, President Trump said: "They [Democrats] have the worst policy.

"How we have to even run against these people? I won't say cancel the election, they should cancel the election, because the fake news will say, 'He wants the elections cancelled. He's a dictator.'

"They always call me a dictator. Nobody is worse than Obama and the people that surrounded Biden."