发布时间：2026年2月13日，美国东部时间下午6:13 / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
拒绝为其Truth Social账号发布的一段种族主义视频道歉数小时后，总统唐纳德·特朗普仍未消气。
消息人士向CNN透露，上周末特朗普在海湖庄园（Mar-a-Lago）向盟友抱怨那些谴责该视频（将奥巴马夫妇描绘成猿类）的共和党人，质疑这些议员的忠诚度，并誓言要予以惩罚。
据消息人士称，特朗普整个周末都在抨击南卡罗来纳州参议员蒂姆·斯科特——唯一的黑人共和党参议员、参议院共和党竞选委员会主席——认为他作为自己的顶级国会盟友之一，公开指责其白宫存在种族主义行为是越界的。
“总统认为他本可以私下处理此事，”一位特朗普政府高级官员向CNN评价斯科特时表示，“他说，‘我们一直合作得很好。他没必要公开评论。’”
一名消息人士回忆称，特朗普对阿拉巴马州参议员凯蒂·布里特的言辞更为激烈，用脏话谴责她，并宣称她“对他来说已毫无价值”。
布里特办公室抨击该报道为“假新闻”，并强调她与总统关系密切；而白宫则称赞她是“一位令人难以置信的盟友”，总统对其“深表尊重”。斯科特办公室未予置评。
这一事件标志着2026年中期选举前共和党与总统的一次重大分歧，也反映出此类事件如何让这位总司令感到挫败。
白宫最初为该视频辩护，最终在上线近12小时后才将其移除——而这仅仅是在一些顶级共和党人表示反对之后。
就在几天前，少数共和党议员在一项关键关税投票中违抗特朗普，促使他威胁称，任何反对其标志性经济政策的人都将在初选中“自食其果”。去年年底，在共和党压力下，特朗普被迫支持一项要求公开杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）案件文件的法案——尽管他曾表示美国应该“向前看”。
白宫辩称，特朗普仍是共和党的“明确领袖”。总统新闻秘书卡罗琳·利维特在声明中表示，他“致力于确保共和党人团结起来对抗民主党人——如果民主党人有机会，他们会再次通过开放边境、允许非公民参与选举以及糟糕的经济政策摧毁我们的国家”。
引起特朗普注意
但上周五上午，正是共和党议员试图通过强烈谴责特朗普深夜发布的帖子来为其政党定调。
据消息人士透露，当该视频开始发酵时，经常与总统通话的斯科特私下联系特朗普未果后，转而在社交平台X（原推特）上发声。
“祈祷这是假的，因为这是我在这个白宫见过的最种族主义的东西。总统应该删掉它，”这位参议员写道。
这一表态引起了特朗普的注意。他后来致电与自己私交甚密的斯科特，告知这位南卡罗来纳州共和党人他计划让团队删除该帖子。当天中午前，白宫称一名工作人员错误发布了视频并已删除。当晚飞往海湖庄园时，特朗普告诉记者他没看到视频最后几帧中描绘奥巴马夫妇的画面，将责任推给了一名未具名的工作人员。“我没有犯错，”他说。
消息人士称，总统及其顶级顾问私下认为，斯科特的回应才让此事引发全国关注。
但谴责该视频的不止斯科特一人。布里特正与白宫密切合作争取国土安全部资金，她对上周视频的删除表示欢迎，称“它本就不该被发布，这也不是我们国家的本色”。
这种公开批评引起了极右翼活动人士劳拉·卢默（Laura Loomer）的关注。她向特朗普提交了议员们声明的打印件（消息人士称）。卢默此前曾因特朗普认为的盟友发表批评言论而成功激怒过他，她在X平台上表示正在“整理一份名单”，列出那些用“虚假种族主义指控攻击特朗普”的共和党人。
值得注意的是，特朗普和卢默愤怒的对象（包括斯科特和布里特）也于周末在棕榈滩参加了全国共和党参议员委员会的冬季会议。特朗普未与该团体会面，但邀请了少数几人（如参议员埃里克·斯克里普斯和林赛·格雷厄姆，他们未批评视频）参加其超级碗派对。
布里特办公室在声明中为她支持特朗普辩护：
“这是CNN典型的假新闻。布里特参议员对特朗普总统的投票支持率为100%，仍是参议院中他最坚定的盟友之一。就在本周，布里特参议员还与特朗普总统就她在捍卫ICE（美国移民和海关执法局）官员、推动《SAVE美国法案》以及推进总统让美国重获经济活力的政策方面的领导力进行了深入交谈。任何暗示与此不符的说法不仅具有误导性，而且完全是虚假的。”
特朗普称未处罚任何人
尽管特朗普对公开反对他的共和党人言辞严厉，但对白宫归咎于这场“灾难”的未具名工作人员，他批评较少。周四，特朗普被问及是否采取了行动时表示：
“不，我没有（对他们采取行动），”他未点名道姓地说，“正如你所知，那是一段关于选民欺诈的视频，相当长，里面有一小段和《狮子王》有关。在那之前很久，这段视频就已经在各处广泛流传了。”
特朗普经常亲自在Truth Social发帖——尤其是深夜和凌晨，并且常常亲自转发他人内容（熟悉其社交媒体使用的消息人士此前向CNN透露）。
包括娜塔莉·哈普（有时会代特朗普口述并打字）和丹·斯卡拉维诺（其在特朗普第一任期内负责社交媒体运营的副幕僚长）在内的少数亲近助手也有发帖权限。周日，哈普和斯卡拉维诺被发现在特朗普的超级碗派对上坐在总统身旁。周五，哈普还陪同总统登上海军陆战队一号前往布拉格堡。
Trump privately lashes out at GOP lawmakers over racist video blowback, sources say
PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2026, 6:13 PM ET / CNN
Hours after refusing to apologize for a racist video posted to his Truth Social account, President Donald Trump hadn’t let go.
He spent last weekend complaining to allies about Republicans who had condemned the video depicting the Obamas as apes, questioning the lawmakers’ loyalty and vowing consequences, sources familiar with his comments told CNN.
The president railed against South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott — the sole Black Republican senator and chair of the Senate GOP’s campaign arm — throughout the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, arguing one of his top congressional allies was out of line to call his White House racist, the sources said.
“The president felt he could’ve handled that matter privately,” a senior Trump administration official told CNN of Scott. “He was like, ‘We work together all the time. He didn’t need to comment publicly.’”
Trump had even stronger words for Alabama Sen. Katie Britt, one of the sources recalled, using expletives to denounce her and declaring that she was dead to him.
Britt’s office slammed that account as “fake news” and touted her strong working relationship with the president, while the White House praised her as “an incredible ally” whom the president has “great respect” for. Scott’s office declined to comment.
But the episode, which marks one of the starkest GOP breaks from the president ahead of the 2026 midterms, also reflects how such moments have frustrated the commander in chief.
The White House’s removal of the video, which it had initially defended last week, came nearly 12 hours after it had been online — and only after the blowback from some top Republicans.
Just days later, a handful of GOP lawmakers bucked Trump on a key tariff vote, prompting him to threaten that anyone who votes against his signature economic policy will “suffer the consequences” in primaries. And late last year, Trump, under GOP pressure, was forced to back a vote to compel the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files — an issue he has said the country should move on from.
The White House argued that Trump remains “the unequivocal leader” of the GOP, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying in a statement that he’s “committed to ensuring Republicans remain united against the Democrats who, if given the chance, will destroy our country again through open borders, allowing non-citizens to vote in elections, and horrific economic policy.”
Getting Trump’s attention
But last Friday morning, it was Republican lawmakers trying to set the tone for their party by forcefully speaking out against Trump’s late night post.
As the video was first gaining traction, Scott — who speaks to the president regularly — privately reached out, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. Unable to get ahold of him, he took to X.
“Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it,” the senator wrote.
That got Trump’s attention. He later called Scott — with whom he has a close personal relationship — and told the South Carolina Republican he was planning to have his team remove the post. Just before noon, the White House said a staffer had erroneously posted the video and it was deleted. As he flew to Mar-a-Lago that night, Trump told reporters he hadn’t seen the final frames of the video depicting the Obamas and blamed an unnamed staffer for posting it. “I didn’t make a mistake,” he said.
The president, as well as many of Trump’s top advisers, have privately asserted that Scott’s response is what led to the story gaining nationwide attention, the sources said.
But Scott was hardly alone in condemning the video. Britt, who’s working closely with the White House to try to fund the Department of Homeland Security, applauded the post’s removal last week, saying it “should have never been posted to begin with, and is not who we are as a nation.”
The open criticism caught the attention of far-right activist Laura Loomer, who presented Trump with printouts of the lawmakers’ statements, one of the sources familiar said. Loomer, who has previously succeeded in riling up the president over critical comments made by his perceived allies, posted on X that she was “compiling a list” of Republicans who “attacked” Trump with “false accusations of racism.”
Notably, some of the senators Trump and Loomer were furious with — including Scott and Britt — were also in Palm Beach that weekend for the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s winter retreat. Trump did not meet with the group, but he did invite a select few — such as Sens. Eric Schmitt and Lindsey Graham, who had not criticized him over the video — to join him for golf and attend his Super Bowl party.
Britt’s office defended her support for Trump in a statement.
“This is classic fake news by CNN. Senator Britt has a 100% voting record with President Trump and remains one of his strongest allies in the Senate. Just this week, Senator Britt had a tremendous conversation with President Trump about her leadership as she fights to defend our incredible ICE officers, pass the SAVE America Act, and advance the president’s policies to make America affordable again. Any narrative suggesting otherwise is not only misleading, it is flat out false,” the statement said.
Trump says he hasn’t punished anyone
While Trump had harsh words for Republicans who spoke out against him, he’s been less critical of the unnamed staffer whom the White House blamed for the debacle, telling reporters on Thursday that he has no plans to discipline the person.
The president often posts personally on Truth Social — particularly late at night and early in the morning — and he often personally re-posts others’ posts, sources familiar with his social media use previously told CNN.
But a few close aides — including Natalie Harp, who will sometimes type out posts that are dictated to her, and Dan Scavino, a deputy chief of staff who ran Trump’s social media accounts during his first term — also have access. Harp and Scavino were spotted on Sunday sitting beside the president during his Super Bowl party. Harp also boarded Marine One with the president on Friday as he traveled to Fort Bragg.
“No, I haven’t [taken action against them],” Trump said Thursday, without naming anyone. “That was a video on, as you know, voter fraud, a fairly long video, and they had a little piece, and it had to do with the Lion King. It’s been very well, it’s been shown all over the place long before that was posted.”
