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Steele: Trump thought Americans would accept his racist post
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February 7, 2026
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7:06Now PlayingMichael Steele confronts Donald Trump's weasely avoidance of responsibility for posting a racist video of Barack and Michelle Obama to his social media account, dubiously blaming an unnamed assistant, and remarks that Trump thought Americans would be racist enough to accept the post without any blowback even as it resurrected generations-old trauma from when American racism was uninhibited.
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