"Last Thursday evening, Trump posted a video with baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election that included a short clip at the end with former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama, showing their faces superimposed on apes' bodies. The video was furiously criticized by members of Congress on both sides of the aisle, members of the media, and other political commentators as racist."
"Tuesday, Vance's account posted, then deleted, a tweet that included a photo of him with Second Lady Usha Vance at a wreath laying ceremony at the Armenian Genocide memorial to honor the victims of the 1915 Armenian genocide. An official with Vance's office said that the tweet was posted in error by a staffer who was not traveling with the delegation."
"The tweet broke from Trump administration policy, which does not use the word genocide' to refer to the systematic killing and deportation of Armenians in what is now Turkey, reported CNN. President Joe Biden was a noteworthy exception to a long-running avoidance by American authorities to avoid using the term genocide in an effort to not damage the relationship with Turkey."
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt faced questions after two deleted social-media posts. Last Thursday, President Trump posted a video with baseless 2020 election conspiracy theories that ended with Barack and Michelle Obama’s faces superimposed on apes’ bodies, prompting bipartisan criticism as racist. Leavitt initially defended the post as an Internet meme and dismissed critics as voicing fake outrage; the post was deleted and blamed on an unnamed staffer. On Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance’s account posted then deleted a tweet calling the 1915 Armenian killings 'genocide,' which an official said was a staffer error. The use of 'genocide' departs from Trump administration policy. Estimates of Armenian deaths range from 300,000 to 2 million between 1914 and 1923.
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