President Donald Trump’s racist social media post featuring former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle was deleted Friday after a backlash from both Republican...

But that didn’t last long after backlash from Republicans — including six GOP senators who rarely break with the president — who called for the post to be taken down.

“Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the only Black Republican in the Senate, said in an X post at 9:43 a.m.