New Delhi, Feb. 6 -- President Donald Trump shared a video on his social media account about election conspiracy theories that featured a racist portrayal of former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as primates in a jungle. California Governor Gavin Newsom called it "disgusting behaviour".

The post, shared late Thursday night, sparked immediate criticism over its offensive depiction of the country's first Black president and first lady.

The video was part of a broader wave of social media posts in which Trump repeated his false assertions that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, claims that have been repeatedly rejected by courts nationwide and by his own attorney general during his first term, who found...