In response to Trump posting a video depicting the Obamas as apes, Ben Shapiro says the president does not have the “attention span” to realize what was in the video

BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): There’s a video that he posted over at Truth Social that apparently contains an image of the Obamas as apes. Now, obviously, ugly, terrible, stupid, all those things. Do I think that President Trump even watched the whole video? I have serious doubts. President Trump has a habit of late night Truthling, where he just sort of gets up at 3AM, or he’s up at 3AM and he just starts Truthing things out.

And I’m almost certain that the president never watches the entirety of any video. I don’t think he has the attention span to get through any of the videos that he has tweeted. I think he sees that there is something that is pro-Trump, he puts it out there. And if there’s an ugly image in there, either he ignores it or he didn’t see it in the first place as a general rule.

Doesn’t mean that it’s good for him to do it. I think that is the reality. Here’s the video that is now launching a thousand think pieces.

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SHAPIRO: So, if you actually watch that entire video in context, what you see is that the video is a minute two seconds long. The first 59 seconds of that video is a person speaking to camera about Dominion Voting Systems, and the president put out a post about how many votes were deleted and all this. I don’t think that that stuff is verifiably true.

But as far as the video goes, the very, very tail end, like, the very, very end, that’s when you get the graphic of the Obamas as apes. Now does that justify it? It doesn’t justify anything, but I think that the suggestion that the president did not watch the entirety of the video and that he just put that out late at night because he watched the first 25 seconds of the video or 40 seconds of the video, I would say that that is extremely high probability. That, nonetheless, will launch a thousand think pieces. That sort of thing is, shall we say, self-defeating at the very least. Aside from being immoral, if the president did it on purpose, which I don’t think he did, that — it is self-defeating. It is an own goal. There is no reason for that sort of activity, and it is one of the reasons why the president has never been able to get to 55 or 60% of the approval ratings even when his policy has been at a tight.