Monkey

Former U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday criticised what he described as a decline in standards of public conduct in American politics, delivering his first public response to a social media post shared from the account of President Donald Trump that included imagery depicting Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as monkeys.

Speaking during an interview released Saturday with political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen, Obama addressed the controversy days after a video circulated on Trump’s platform, Truth Social, prompting criticism from Democratic and Republican figures as well as civil rights groups.

The clip, was later removed after drawing widespread …