TRUMP, ANOTHER HAIR-ON-FIRE UPROAR, AND THE MIDTERMS. On Friday, the political and media world experienced a nervous breakdown over President Donald Trump’s posting of a video that contained a racist image portraying former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes. The video contained a lot more — with a jungle theme, it portrayed former President Joe Biden as a gorilla eating a banana, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani as a hyena, and former first lady Hillary Clinton as a warthog, while portraying Trump as a lion, the king of the jungle. But it didn’t matter. There is a long history of racist tropes portraying black people as apes, and that is what the video did with the Obamas.

Trump took the video down and explained that he had not intentionally posted it, that it had briefly autoplayed after the video he intended to post, which was about the 2020 election. But at minimum, the damage done meant the loss of one, two, three or more days that might have been devoted to making the case for Republicans in the midterm elections, now less than nine months away.

In fact, on the day Trump posted the video, he........

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