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Por Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN

El jueves por la noche, el presidente Donald Trump compartió en sus redes sociales un video racista que mostraba al expresidente Barack Obama y a la ex primera dama Michelle Obama como simios en una selva y se desencadenó una fuerte condena.

Los Obama aparecen brevemente y de repente casi al final del video corto, que promueve afirmaciones falsas sobre un supuesto fraude electoral en las elecciones de 2020, con sus rostros superpuestos a los cuerpos de simios. Mientras aparecen las imágenes, durante aproximadamente un segundo, suena de fondo el comienzo de la canción “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”.

La publicación, que recuerda el estereotipo racista de comparar a las personas negras con monos, provocó una rápida reacción negativa. Pero en un comunicado a CNN este viernes, la secretaria de prensa de la Casa Blanca, Karoline Leavitt, calificó la reacción al video como “indignación fingida”.

“Este es un video meme de internet que representa al presidente Trump como el Rey de la Selva y a los demócratas como personajes de ‘El rey león’”, dijo Leavitt. “Por favor, dejen de lado la indignación fingida e informen sobre algo que realmente le importe al público estadounidense”.

CNN se ha puesto en contacto con los Obama para obtener comentarios, pero hasta ahora no ha obtenido respuesta.

La oficina del gobernador de California, Gavin Newsom, condenó el video en una publicación en X: “Comportamiento repugnante del presidente. Todos los republicanos deben denunciarlo. Ahora”.

Este incidente es el ejemplo más reciente de las críticas que ha recibido Trump por compartir contenido racista en sus redes sociales.

El año pasado, el presidente publicó un video aparentemente generado por inteligencia artificial que mostraba a Barack Obama siendo arrestado en la Oficina Oval. Más tarde ese mismo año, Trump y miembros de su administración también compartieron imágenes y videos manipulados digitalmente del líder de la minoría en la Cámara de Representantes, Hakeem Jeffries, con un bigote falso y un sombrero, imágenes que Jeffries describió públicamente como racistas.

Fadel Allassan de CNN contribuyó a este informe.

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By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump shared a racist video on his social media platform Thursday night that depicted former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes in a jungle, sparking intense condemnation.

The Obamas briefly and suddenly appear near the end of the short video, which promotes false claims that voting machines helped steal the 2020 election, with their faces superimposed onto the bodies of apes. As the images appear, for about one second, the start of the song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” plays in the background.

The post, which recalls the racist trope of comparing Black people with monkeys, prompted swift backlash. In a statement to CNN on Friday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the broader response to the video “fake outrage.”

“This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King,” Leavitt said. “Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.”

CNN has reached out to the Obamas for comment.

The office of California Gov. Gavin Newsom condemned the video in a post on X, writing: “Disgusting behavior by the President. Every single Republican must denounce this. Now.”

The incident is the latest example of Trump drawing criticism for sharing racist content on his social media platform.

Last year, the president posted an apparent AI video depicting Barack Obama being arrested in the Oval Office. Later last year, Trump and members of his administration also shared digitally altered images and videos of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wearing a fake mustache and a sombrero, imagery Jeffries publicly described as racist.

CNN’s Fadel Allassan contributed to this report.

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By Hannah Keyser, CNN

San Jose, California (CNN) — Jarran Reed, the Seattle Seahawks veteran defensive tackle, was asked something about his favorite part of Super Bowl week. But just then, a battle was breaking out on a podium just a few yards away.

Derick Hall had climbed up onto the dais where Ernest Jones IV was seated for the team’s media availability to challenge his fellow linebacker to a quick game of shadow boxing.

“Hey! Hey, you saw that, Spoon?” Reed shouted across the convention center ballroom to cornerback Devon Witherspoon. It was worth paying attention to because a surprising upset was taking place.

Hall had just beaten Jones in shadow boxing and – admittedly CNN Sports’ source for this is Jones himself – Hall was 2-12 against Jones during the season.

“Like, he’s terrible,” Jones said.

And that is Reed’s favorite part of Super Bowl week: The shadow boxing.

“Oh it gets real,” Reed said.

Wait, what?

The shadow boxing started during organized team activities last spring as one of several games the Seahawks played. (Again, according to Jones himself, he and Tyrice Knight won the OTAs tournament.)

During team meetings, head coach Mike Macdonald encouraged them to compete at things like ping pong, free throw contests, “all the different sports,” linebacker DeMarcus Lawrence added.

“But it just got to a point where it’s like, nah, we just gotta fight for it,” Lawrence said. “It just became just straight shadow boxing. It was no other competition but shadow boxing for the rest of the year.”

Now, we know what you’re thinking. And the rules of shadow boxing are convoluted and complicated to explain in writing. It’s a game of hand motions played rapidly between two opponents that ends up looking like a cross between, well, shadow boxing and voguing.

But that’s not the important part anyway.

The important part is: Who is the best at shadow boxing on the Seahawks?

“Oh, you lookin’ at him,” Witherspoon said, and he has at least some teammates willing to support his case.

“I hate to say it, but Spoon is probably number one,” Jones said. “I fall in the number two-ish category.”

And others who are not.

“It’s not Spoon,” Reed said. “Spoon’s an easy fade.”

“See, everybody has their own style of fighting. And I think, because it’s our first year of doing it, we can’t say who is the best. Because, you know, some guys have good weeks and then the next week they just fall off,” Lawrence, a diplomatic 12-year veteran of the league who is new to Seattle this season, said. “But you know, just seeing all the different styles of fighting in the locker room is pretty incredible.”

The locker room, and everywhere else.

“We literally just shadow boxed right before we came in here,” Witherspoon said.

“We do it every day,” Jones said. “Every moment, every second. Every day — 6 a.m., 4 a.m. it’s going down.”

They’ve brought it home to their families. Witherspoon plays it with his girlfriend. Reed and Jones both have taught their young sons how to play.

“He’s actually pretty good,” said Jones, whose credibility about his record against Hall is called into question just a little considering his son is not yet two years old and Jones admits: “He beats me a lot.”

Meanwhile Reed is hoping his son’s early start will give him a leg up on the competition in the surely forthcoming National Shadow Boxing League. “I think there will be one soon,” he said.

Any chance to shadow box, the players will seize upon. Even during actual football games

By Katia Hetter, CNN

(CNN) — We often discuss depression and dementia separately, although scientists have long observed a connection between the two: People with depression appear to have a higher likelihood of developing dementia later in life.

A new study published in The Lancet Psychiatry adds an important twist in untangling that relationship and looks beyond depression as a single diagnosis. By focusing on specific symptoms, the research raises a more precise and potentially more useful question: Could certain symptoms in midlife signal greater vulnerability to dementia decades later? And if so, what should people and clinicians do with that information now?

To guide us through this topic, I spoke with CNN wellness expert Dr. Leana Wen. She is an emergency physician and clinical associate professor at George Washington University. Wen previously was Baltimore’s health commissioner.

CNN: What did this new study examine, and why did researchers focus on individual depressive symptoms instead of depression overall?

Dr. Leana Wen: The researchers wanted to answer a specific question: When studies find that depression is linked to dementia, is the risk tied to depression as a broad diagnosis or, potentially, a smaller set of specific symptoms within depression?

To answer this question, they analyzed data from a long-running British study that began decades ago. Over 5,800 adults completed a 30-item questionnaire about depressive symptoms in the late 1990s, when all participants were dementia-free. Participants were then followed for about 25 years through national health registries, with dementia diagnoses tracked up to 2023. Over that follow-up period, about 10% of participants developed dementia.

CNN: Which symptoms did the researchers examine, and how do these differ from one another?

Wen: The study identified six symptoms that are especially correlated with dementia risk years later. They are: losing confidence in oneself; not being able to face up to problems; not feeling warmth and affection for others; feeling nervous and anxious all the time; not being satisfied with the way tasks are carried out; and difficulties concentrating.

These symptoms do not all point to the same experience. Some relate to self-perception and coping, such as losing confidence or not being able to face problems. Others speak to connection and emotional engagement, such as not feeling warmth or affection. Others are more about sustained anxiety or tension, such as feeling nervous and strung up. And some relate to how the brain is functioning day to day, such as difficulty concentrating or a sense of dissatisfaction with how tasks are carried out.

That is one reason this symptom-level approach is helpful. Depression is not one uniform experience. People can share the same diagnosis but have very different symptom patterns, and this study suggests those patterns may not all have the same relationship to later cognitive health.

CNN: Why might some depressive symptoms be linked to later dementia risk while others are not?

Wen: There are a few plausible explanations, and it is important to say up front that these are hypotheses rather than proof. This was an observational study, so it can point to possible links but not necessarily establish why those associations exist.

One possibility is that some symptoms are more likely to lead to behavioral changes that affect brain health over time. For example, loss of conf