Former President Barack Obama opened up about the AI-generated image depicting him and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes that President Donald Trump posted earlier this year in a new interview with The New Yorker.

“I don’t take it personally,” Obama told the outlet. “I mean, I’m always offended when my wife and kids get dragged into things, because they didn’t choose this. That’s a line that even people whose politics I deeply reject, I would expect them to care about.”

“I would never talk about somebody’s family in that way,” he added.

Obama revealed that he was way more concerned about Trump treating war “like a video game” with the unhinged AI videos he’s been posting, including a video depicting “excrement [being] dumped on ordinary citizens.”

“I mean, I’m a fair target in the sense of, yeah, you can feel free to pick on me, because I’m your own size,” he said of Trump’s objectionable posts aimed at Americans.

A video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes was posted and later deleted on Trump's account in February.

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The clip, which was posted at the start of Black History Month, has since been deleted after it sparked widespread backlash from both political parties.

Obama appeared to indirectly respond to the video in February, telling YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen in an interview that many Americans “find this behavior deeply troubling.”

“There doesn’t seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sort of decorum and a sense of propriety and respect for the office,” Obama said.

The former president added that “there’s this sort of clown show that’s happening in social media and on television.”