Benny Johnson calls backlash to Trump posting video showing the Obamas as apes a “hoax”: “Don't expect anybody to understand this nuance”
Johnson: “Did President Trump post this meme? No. He posted a swipe up autoplay function that happened at the end of a more than minute long Dominion Voting Systems video that showed how easy it is to rig elections.”
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From the February 6, 2026, edition of The Benny Show, posted to YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): What's up, guys. It's Benny. For literally years, we have said the left can't meme, and that's because they lack any capacity to laugh at themselves or to have self deprecating humor. They really aren't funny people. That's why left-wing comedy is, of course, suffered and why libs are no fun at parties.
And and today is a perfect day to actually show precisely what we mean in those criticisms. This is a meme. It's a meme that might offend you. Don't care. It's just a meme. It's Donald Trump as the lion king with various characters from the Disney live action Lion King as left-wing pundits and politicians. And just like in The Lion King, they bow down to Donald Trump. And just like in The Lion King, various characters are animals, and this includes Joe Biden as a monkey, Hillary Clinton as a warthog, Hakeem Jeffries as a meerkat, couple of donkeys, an elephant, a giraffe, and so on and so forth. Zohran Mamdani is a hyena and a zebra, and here's Kamala as a turtle. OK? Don't don't know if I even get that one. Anyway, the animals sing, along to the You know? King of the Jungle. Do you know this song? This is how it works, OK? Are you offended? I just don't care. It is just a meme.
Well, President Trump posted a small clip of this meme, and the world has gone absolutely ballistic and insane. Here we go. Trump posts video depicting Obama's as apes. Sparks backlash.
As ever, this is a hoax. Let me explain how this is a hoax. I wanna show you the post, but it's actually not up because President Trump deleted it. There was so much -- my entire timeline was people freaking out about this. OK. This what President Trump posted, was a video from an account.
He just ripped it from an account that had a automatic video play at the end of it. And this meme is really funny. It's something that has been shared a lot. It's something that is gone viral, and it's something that autoplayed at the end of a video that President Trump was making, was making a point about election theft. OK? So you can see here. Boing. It even has the meme maker watermark on it. So you can see an autoplay function here, and there's actually a lot of autoplay. I'll play the original video that President Trump -- this is the original video that President Trump posted. It's about Dominion Voting Systems. And you can see here at the very end what happened was the auto, like -- this was ripped from an X account. It has autoplay function, and it also has another autoplay function. Right? This is what happens with videos on social media.
I guess you gotta be careful when you're uploading things. Make sure that you're not uploading the wrong videos. I mean, we do that. Obviously, we play a lot of videos on this channel. We check them. Right? Make sure that everything's square. But that's what's happening here.
Did President Trump post this meme? No. He posted a swipe up autoplay function that happened at the end of a more than minute long Dominion Voting Systems video that showed how easy it is to rig elections and how easy it would be to actually change votes inside of the election mechanisms. But don't expect anybody to understand this nuance. Don't expect anybody who wants to attack President Trump to, like, take a moment and just, like, say, woah. Alright. Got it. We see this as an honest mistake. Again, Trump has deleted the video, and, apparently, they've gotten rid of the staffer who posted it. That's what the White House has said. This is now the newest hoax.