{"id":670474,"date":"2026-05-28T17:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/670474\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T17:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:05:09","slug":"white-house-pays-tribute-to-the-late-gorilla-harambe-calling-him-a-symbol-of-loyalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/670474\/","title":{"rendered":"White House pays tribute to the late gorilla Harambe, calling him a symbol of loyalty"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 The White House<\/a> on Monday evening paid tribute to the late gorilla Harambe who died 10 years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, we remember a legend,\u201d the White House wrote on the social media platform, X<\/a>. \u201cOn this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation\u2019s timeline.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2016, a small boy fell into a gorilla exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo.<\/a> This resulted in Harambe the gorilla approached the boy and grabbed him. While Harambe didn\u2019t hurt the boy, a \u201cdifficult but right\u201d decision was made to kill Harambe and the parents of the child weren\u2019t charged.<\/p>\n

After Harambe died, a petition titled \u201cJustice for Harambe\u201d popped up and got over half a million signatures.<\/p>\n

\u201cTomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him,\u201d the White House wrote on X. \u201cTen years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme. He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House referred to Harambe as a \u201ctrue patriot\u201d who will never be forgotten.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEveryone remembers where they were when they heard the news,\u201d the White House said. \u201cAnd somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 The White House on Monday evening paid tribute to the late gorilla Harambe who died…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-670474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}