Understand, please, that for years, people have used that monkey thing as a slur. If he had photoshopped a little toddler wearing royal type clothing, that would have been funny. Monkey? No. It’s like the old saw about fruits and nuts in California. I put that on facebook and my California friend reacted adversely saying didn’t I know fruit was a slur on gay people. Which I had no clue about. But now that I do know, I surely will not make that mistake again.
Darwin’s theory
Apparently your friend accepted nuts as accurate.
GWB was routinely depicted as a chimpanzee. Because of his facial appearance, I guess. But of course that’s not racist because it just another genetic characteristic that a person is born with and can’t change.
Has your friend never been to San Francisco? Tell them to take a ferry there and then get back to you. By the way - is your friend a fruit? Sounds like more of a nut.