House Resolution 84<\/a> was introduced by Assemblymember and Vice Chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus Isaac Bryan (D-Culver City) in response to not only the president\u2019s post, but also his refusal to apologize. Of the 15 Republicans who were present for the House vote, nine voted with Democrats to condemn the action, while six did not cast a vote.<\/p>\n\u201cLast Thursday night, President Donald Trump celebrated the 100th anniversary of Black history in a way that made every active Klan member in the country proud,\u201d Bryan said during the Feb. 9 Assembly Floor session. He continued, \u201cHe posted a video that depicted [the Obamas] as dancing primates. He continued the celebration into Friday by doubling down on the video’s good humor before eventually being forced to take it down in shame, disgust and disgrace.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd as the country has waited for any semblance of leadership, we’ve all been left staring nakedly at a coward who blamed an unnamed staffer for what he continues to insist was never a mistake and still doesn’t deserve an apology,\u201d Bryan said.<\/p>\n
Background<\/p>\n
The video was posted to Trump’s Truth Social account around midnight last Thursday. The post stayed up for nearly 12 hours.<\/p>\n
The administration\u2019s response to the strong public backlash was scattered. The morning after the post, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement the response was \u201cfake outrage,\u201d and urged the media to \u201creport on something today that actually matters to the American public.\u201d<\/p>\n
A few hours later, the White House said a staffer had mistakenly posted the video and it had been taken down. When pressed about the incident on Air Force One, Trump said he had only seen the first part of the video, which made debunked claims of voter fraud.<\/p>\n
After watching the first section of the video, the president said he passed it along to a staffer to post and that the staffer \u201cslipped and missed a very small part.\u201d Trump told reporters he is \u201cthe least racist president you\u2019ve had in a long time,\u201d and that he would not apologize because he \u201cdidn’t make a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n
House Resolution 84<\/p>\n
\u201c[Trump\u2019s] post was not merely \u2018offensive\u2019 or \u2018in poor taste,\u2019 but a direct act of racial dehumanization that perpetuates a violent and hateful history,\u201d reads the resolution.<\/p>\n
The resolution rejects racism, condemns white supremacist messaging, and reaffirms California\u2019s commitment to \u201cstand in solidarity with Black communities and all people targeted by hate.\u201d<\/p>\n
It also calls for the president to issue a public apology to the Obamas and Black Americans across the country.<\/p>\n
The resolution received support from the LGBTQ, Latino, Asian American Pacific Islander, Jewish, Native American and Women\u2019s Legislative Caucuses.<\/p>\n
“[Trump\u2019s] Truth Social post was racist, consistent with a long pattern of racist remarks that have fueled division and hate in this country,\u201d said Assemblymember and Vice Chair or the Legislative Latino Caucus Liz Ortega (D-San Leandro) in a statement to CAL\u00d3 News. \u201cEveryone – regardless of party – should be outraged and call it out for what it is.”<\/p>\n
Last week’s incident was certainly not the first time the president has made racially offensive remarks. During his first presidential run in 2016, Trump repeatedly referred to Latinos as \u201crapists\u201d and \u201canimals.\u201d Throughout his 2024 campaign, Trump also doubled down on the racist conspiracy theory claiming Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating dogs and cats.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is heartbreaking at a time when there should be bipartisan efforts to eradicate the dehumanization and the animalistic tropes that underbed slavery in this country,\u201d Bryan said Monday,\u00a0 \u201cthat instead of that bipartisan effort, the leader of our nation is feeding into it, cultivating it, building a new generation of support wrapped around it and weaponizing it in lethally consequential ways.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Democrats in the Assembly voted unanimously on Monday to pass a resolution condemning racism in the wake…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,536,5551,3690],"class_list":{"0":"post-172723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-legislature","13":"tag-racism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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