Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email Bill Maher ripped into the Trump administration on Real Time Friday for their “lame” defense of a racist post shared on the president’s Truth Social account depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. The video showed the former president and first lady’s faces superimposed onto apes in a jungle, swaying side to side and smiling as the song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” played in the background. Trump has since refused to apologize for sharing the video, which was later deleted, claiming he only watched part of it and blaming his staff. “Trump did a Roseanne,” Maher said Friday, referencing comedian Roseanne Barr, whose infamous tweet about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett led to the cancellation of her sitcom Roseanne in 2018. “The defense, I thought, from the administration, was rather lame. They said, ‘He did not mean to hit share. He meant to hit like,’” …