Current Events > Barack Obama Just Trolled Donald Trump And The Rest Of The Birthers

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http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/barack-obama-just-trolled-donald-trump-and-the-rest-of-the-birthers/ar-AAukS3q?ocid=ientp

Former President Barack Obama cracked a joke on Tuesday night at the expense of President Donald Trump and other conspiracy theorists who claimed he wasnt born in the United States.

The reason Im so excited to see you all here today in part is because this is where I started, Obama said at the first Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago where he worked as a community organizer in the 1980s.

Now, this isnt where I was born, I was born in Kenya, he said to laughs, then added: Thats a joke.

Obama was actually born in Hawaii in 1961 and has released both his short-form and long-form birth certificates to prove it. Two Honolulu newspapers also printed birth announcements at the time.

After pushing the birther conspiracy theory for years, Trump eventually admitted that Obama was indeed born in the United States. However, he has never apologized for spreading that falsehood.

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He was doing great before he felt the need to explain the joke. >_>
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AlisLandale posted...

He was doing great before he felt the need to explain the joke. >_>

Yeah but if he hadn't, you know sites like Breitbart and Infowars would have run headlines stating "Obama Admits He Wasn't Born in US!!!1!"
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AlisLandale posted...

He was doing great before he felt the need to explain the joke. >_>

For a lot of people in this country, there is absolutely a need to explain the joke.
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I feel like Obama's jokes aimed at Trump feel pretty tepid now that the joke is on him on a permanent basis these days.
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0AbsoluteZero0 posted...

AlisLandale posted...

He was doing great before he felt the need to explain the joke. >_>

Yeah but if he hadn't, you know sites like Breitbart and Infowars would have run headlines stating "Obama Admits He Wasn't Born in US!!!1!"

SmidgeIsntBack posted...

AlisLandale posted...

He was doing great before he felt the need to explain the joke. >_>

For a lot of people in this country, there is absolutely a need to explain the joke.

Hes not the President anymore. Obama could tell everyone he was born in North Korea and nobody could do shit to him lol
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He most certainly needed to add that line. People wouldn't watch the video. They'd just read him saying he was born in Kenya.

Alt-righters are sad, sad people.
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Darmik posted...

He most certainly needed to add that line. People wouldn't watch the video. They'd just read him saying he was born in Kenya.

Alt-righters are sad, sad people.

Yeah, and with those fools in full Trump damage-control mode, they are latching onto any and all negative news regarding Hillary and Obama in a sad attempt to deflect from the shitshow in the White House
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Oh, boy. If Trump's presidency and subsequent attempts to dismantle Obama's legacy exist simply because Obama roasted Trump at the Correspondent's Dinner, how will Trump react to this new diss? Is it possible to revoke Cash For Clunkers?
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SmidgeIsntBack posted...

AlisLandale posted...

He was doing great before he felt the need to explain the joke. >_>

For a lot of people in this country, there is absolutely a need to explain the joke.

Unfortuately, this is true.
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A whole news article because Obama told a joke? The fuck?
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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

A whole news article because Obama told a joke? The fuck?

Wasn't there a media frenzy because Obama ate dijon mustard?
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How is cracking a joke to a bunch of liberals at the Obama Foundation Summit trolling conservatives?
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