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Donald Trump posted an image Sunday morning on Truth Social depicting former President Barack Obama and several of his top national security officials dressed in orange prison jumpsuits, in what appears to be a direct threat against a former president and his allies.

The image, styled as a Brady Bunch-style grid of mugshots, showed Obama — labeled "Barack Hussein Obama" — alongside former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former National Security Advisor Susan Rice, former UN Ambassador Samantha Power, former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, and former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, who was labeled 'Ben "Hamas" Rhodes.' The graphic was captioned with, "The Shady Bunch."

"This is a bad (Sick!) group of people," Trump wrote. "Very destructive to our great Nation. Caused tremendous damage through Weaponization! President DJT"

The post comes as Trump's Justice Department has moved aggressively against perceived political enemies. Trump has repeatedly suggested — without evidence — that Obama-era officials engaged in illegal surveillance and other misconduct against his 2016 campaign, a conspiracy theory his supporters refer to as "Obamagate."

President Donald Trump took aim Sunday at former President Barack Obama’s Presidential Center and library in a furious outburst on social media, insisting that the ongoing project was sparking outrage among members of nearby communities.

“Illinois is spending hundreds of millions of dollars in trying to BAIL OUT Obama’s badly delayed, and tremendously over budget, ‘Library,’” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “The neighborhood is ANGRY AS HELL. It is a total disaster!”

Originally slated to open in 2021, the Barack Obama Presidential Center is now expected to open in Chicago, Illinois this June, with its construction halted several times due to lawsuits and cost factors.

Obama’s presidential library has long been a target for Trump. Last May, Trump attacked the project as “woke” and a “disaster,” and in October, he described its design as “not too pretty,” proclaiming that the former president “needs help” for having approved such a design.

President Donald Trump sparked fury Friday morning after posting a blatantly racist video on social media depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as non-human primates, a post critics denounced as a shocking new low for the presidency.

“Disgusting behavior by the President,” wrote California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press office Friday in a social media post on X. “Every single Republican must denounce this. Now.”

Posted late Thursday night to his social media platform Truth Social, the social media post in question is a roughly one-minute video supporting the president’s false claims that the 2020 election was “rigged.” At the end of the video, a short, two-second clip is seen in which the Obamas’ faces are superimposed onto the bodies of primates in the jungle, set to the 1961 song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by The Tokens.

The video also bears a watermark suggesting it was created by X user “Xerias,” a pro-Trump account with more than 45,000 followers who on X early Friday claimed credit for having made the video last October.

“Trump just posted an incredibly racist photo of the Obamas’ faces photoshopped onto the body of apes,” wrote Dean Withers, a political commentator on X with nearly 500,000 followers. “Every day is a new rock bottom for this ugly pig.”

Some critics, like journalist Wajahat Ali, took Trump’s latest post as indisputable evidence of both Trump’s and the Republican Party’s racism, arguing that in posting the video, and the GOP’s silence, both were “showing their true colors.” Others, like liberal political commentator Brian Krassenstein, were simply left baffled.

“Our RACIST President just posted a video which depicts Barack and Michelle Obama as Apes,” Krassenstein wrote early Friday morning in a social media post on X.

“But I’m sure MAGA will tell us it’s the black people who are the real racist ones. When is enough enough? When can you all admit that you voted for a terrible human being?”

Former President Barack Obama on Saturday sounded off against President Donald Trump in a speech endorsing a candidate.

Obama over the weekend gave a passionate speech in an effort to boost Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger. As part of that lecture, Obama gave the audience an, I told you so.

"It is not as if we didn't see some of this coming. I will admit it is worse than even I expected, but I did warn you all. I did," Obama said. "You can run the tape. And by the way, he warned you too, because he said what he was gonna do. But the fact is there were plenty of people who voted for Trump and the Republicans anyway. And it wasn't because they wanted to give up the right to free speech or see public health systems torn down, but because they were understandably frustrated with inflation and gas prices and the difficulty of affording a home and worries about their children's future and so they were willing to take a chance."

Obama further added, "Now, nine months later, you have got to ask yourself, has any of that gotten better? Is the economy working better for you? It sure has gotten better for Trump and his family."

A decision by former President Barack Obama to weigh in on the suspension of comedian Jimmy Kimmel by Disney/ABC sent supporters of Donald Trump into a blind rage on Thursday afternoon.

Posting on both X and Bluesky, the former president warned that the current administration is taking the country down a dangerous road by going after anyone who doesn’t toe the line on topics such as the death of far-right conservative Charlie Kirk, which has led to firings at all levels of society and the controversial silencing of comedian Kimmel that even has some execs at the Disney unsure about the move.

According to the former president, “After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.”

Those words set off a flurry of sneers and threats aimed at the only Black man who has served as a U.S. president.

Character actor Nick Searcy simply wrote, “Oh shut up.”

“You tried to put our guy in prison for 700 years and then assassinated one of the most moderate leaders in the political ecosystem,” MAGA influencer Gunther Eagleman wrote before threatening, “The dominos (sic)are falling Hussein, and if you're already sweating, just wait. It's going to get so much better.”

Attorney Rogan O’Handley who goes by DC Draino, complained, “You guys banned a sitting US President off all social media and had him arrested 4x when he ran for re-election.”

Former comedian Roseanne Barr asked, “Remember when you and your wife called Bob Iger to have me fired?” which led another X user to ask her, “Oh ..you mean when you compared Valerie Jarrett to an ape and then deleted the post. Everyone remembers that you racist hag,” to which she responded, “You probably still wear a mask in your car.”

“As someone who was kicked off Twitter for literally using the word ‘Benghazi,’ and someone your administration targeted with an IRS investigation for literally sitting in a desk serving my country — spare me your outrage, you hack. Now….Jimmy Boy lies to millions of Americans about a political assassination of an American on U.S. soil and you want to stop the whole world to defend this? Sit down,” raged author Sarah Adams.

Florida News asst news editor Eric Daugherty also fell back on the “Hussein” attack with, “Where were you when a sitting president was banned from the public town square on social media, Hussein? Where were you when Big Tech was routinely censoring and banning conservative media figures for years straight?”