Last week Donald Trump posted a social media video of Barack and Michele Obama so ugly and blatantly Nazi in its racism that it even sparked a few hypocritical denunciations from fellow Republi-fascists and assorted Black bootlickers. 

In short, Trump depicted them as apes. This is the type of vile shit that the Nazis pounded out about the Jews—dehumanization to prepare people to carry out genocide. 

This came at the end of the video repeating Trump’s lunatic lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him, which itself came on top of a frenzied week of setting things up to rig the 2026 congressional elections. 

Make no mistake. This was a calculated signal to the hard-core lynch-mob racists that “their time is coming—again.” And this kind of shit has deep roots in this country—go here, here and here on revcom.us to learn about literal massacres carried out against Black people merely for attempting to vote. 

To be clear, Barack Obama was and is a champion of this capitalist-imperialist system. Barack Obama emphasized in 2016, after Trump won the presidency, that he and Trump were on “the same team.” Obama himself was more than willing to enforce the racism baked into this system, no matter who is in charge, adding his own perverse specialties of lecturing Black college students to pull up their pants and calling those Black youth who bravely rebelled after the police murder of Freddie Gray “thugs.”  

The fact is that now that “team” has split apart, with one side determined to bring the other under its thumb by any means necessary and to institute outright fascist rule to maintain this system. And as for the masses of people, including (and especially) the masses of Black and other oppressed people? Trump’s message is loud and clear: “if I can come after Obama, I can certainly come after you!"

The revolutionary leader Bob Avakian (BA) has sounded the alarm on Trump for years. In 2020, he made clear that Trump's genocidal racism is serious:

Genocide means killing off a whole people, or a large part of that people. Genocide is what the Europeans did to the native peoples in America, while stealing their land. Genocide is Hitler and the NAZIs murdering six million Jews. Donald Trump is a genocidal racist.

Donald Trump hates Black people and everybody who is not a “white, English-speaking, Christian American.” If he could, he would kill off a whole lot of them, and put many of the rest in jail for life, or drive them out of the country.

In an important social media message last fall, BA made the truly crucial point that the “oppression of Black people would exist even if Trump weren’t in power—because this oppression is built into this system of capitalism-imperialism.” BA went on to say something even more relevant now than it was at the time he wrote it, in light of the intensifying situation:

What all this shows is not that all the struggle against this oppression didn’t accomplish anything. What it powerfully demonstrates is that the whole system has to go: Only through a revolution to put an end to this whole system, and bring into being a fundamentally different, emancipating system, can this oppression—and all oppression—be finally and completely ended. But allowing the Trump regime to carry out its horrific program will only make all this much worse, and make the necessary revolution much more difficult to carry out. On the other hand, defeating this fascism, through massive, non-violent but determined and sustained mobilization—uniting all who can be united against this Trump fascist regime, moving to create the conditions where this regime will be removed from power—this can strike a huge blow against oppression overall, and it can also make a big contribution to creating more favorable conditions for the all the way liberating revolution that is needed.

IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY, WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA!

THIS WHOLE SYSTEM IS ROTTEN AND ILLEGITIMATE! WE NEED AND WE DEMAND A FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT SYSTEM, A WHOLE NEW WAY TO LIVE!