WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump used his social media account to share a video about election conspiracy theories that includes a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle. The Republican president’s Thursday night post immediately drew backlash for its treatment of the nation’s first Black president and first lady. It was part of a flurry of social media activity that amplified Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him, despite courts around the country and a Trump attorney general from his first term finding no evidence of fraud that could have affected the outcome. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt rejected criticism of the post depicting the Obamas, who are Democrats. Nearly all of the 62-second clip, which was among dozens of Truth Social posts from Trump overnight, appears to be from a conservative video alleging deliberate tampering with voting machines in battleground states as the 2020 presidential votes were tallied. At the 60-second mark is a quick scene of two primates, with the Obamas’ smiling faces imposed on them. Those frames were taken from a longer video, previously circulated by an influential conservative meme maker. It shows Trump as 'King of the Jungle' and depicts a range of Democratic leaders as animals, including Joe Biden, who is white, as a primate eating a banana. Leavitt described the image as part of a meme video depicting Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters. Trump’s aides typically dismiss critiques and cast such images as humorous. The group Republicans Against Trump, a frequent social media critic of the president, criticized the post and its 'racist image.' Trump has a long history of intensely personal criticism of the Obamas and of using incendiary, sometimes racist, rhetoric. His past comments have included derogatory terms regarding minorities and have even led to global condemnation.