Former President Donald Trump has responded to a widely shared incident from the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner in which he was famously made fun of by then-President Barack Obama. Trump was present at the time and had recently been a prominent figure in spreading the false “birther” conspiracy, which cast doubt on Obama’s U.S. citizenship.
In order to quell claims that he was not born in the US, Obama released his complete birth certificate after the dinner. Trump claimed to have succeeded where others had failed, and he had claimed credit for the release. Obama made Trump the focus of a scathing comedy segment and used the occasion to publicly mock him.
Obama mockingly praised Trump in a now-viral video from the dinner for resolving the birth certificate controversy so he could…
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