India, Feb. 8 -- 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 after a backlash from both Republicans and Democrats who criticised the video as offensive. Trump said later Friday that he won't apologise for the post: "I didn't make a mistake," he said.

The Republican president's Thursday night post was blamed on a staffer after widespread backlash, from civil rights leaders to veteran Republican senators, for its treatment of the nation's first Black president and first lady. A rare admission of a misstep by the White House, the deletion on Friday came hours after press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed "fake outrage" over the...