Donald Trump received rare blowback from Republican lawmakers over a video posted to social media that included a racist image of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, depicted as primates.

Since Trump’s return to the White House, Republican lawmakers have treaded carefully when disagreeing with the president, often communicating their concerns in private for fear of suffering his wrath.

But the swift calls to remove the post, which also echoed false conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, represented a rare moment of bipartisan backlash to Trump’s actions from lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

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    The only thing that tools like Scott are objecting to, is that this style of racism makes it more difficult for them to run cover for Republicans’ white supremacist project more generally.

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    Fucking pathetic cowards. The entire lot of you. Actually Americans as a whole are stupid.

    From a country outside of your borders: Fuck you.

    As a citizen of a country that’s not crazy, you fucked up the first time you voted in this piece of shit.

    You should have learned: Fuck you

    Then you losers voted him in a second time: Fuck you.

    Now you’re allowing facism, racism, homophobia, and the destruction of the planet for a couple of wannabe cosplay dictators to stay in power because they rape and kill young children and are destroying that constitution so hold so dear, but are ok with it being used as toilet paper and not upholding the laws written on it: Fuck you.

    From the bottom of my heart: Fuck you. America is cancer.

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      7 hours ago

      From a country outside of your borders: Fuck you.

      I see you, Canada.

      We all see you.

      Alberta is the beating heart of your corrupt fascist oligarchy. A glorified gas station parked atop a charnel pit. You’re Russians with the serial numbers filed off.

      Death to Kkklanada.

      May the millions of native peoples trampled by your imperial boot rise up and strangle you.

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      It’s what I say about Trump and Republicans as an American that voted for Kamala. You’re not wrong, the entire country needs shook to the ground for voting in the malignant cancer.