President Barack Obama is a United States citizens according to Donald Trump who now has publicly retreated from his “birther” campaign. Trump acknowledged that Obama was born in the United States and said that he wanted to move on from the conspiracy theory.
“President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period,” Trump said. “Now, we all want to get back to making America strong and great again.”
But Trump did not apologize. Instead, he took credit for what he portrayed as his putting an end to any uncertainty over the president’s place of birth. Trump also accused Hillary Clinton of having first raised questions about Obama’s birthplace during the 2008 Democratic primary.
“Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy,” Mr. Trump said. “I finished it.”
Of course, social media was not buying his turnaround and quickly started the hashtag #birtherism. Here are some reactions from social media.
On behalf of Twitter, I demand @HillaryClinton apologize for starting the #birtherism movement in 2008 pic.twitter.com/11LHRzkg38
— Jared Wyand (@JaredWyand) September 16, 2016
I love the smell of Clinton desperation in the morning. #birtherism
— MaydnUSA (@MaydnUSA) September 16, 2016
LMAOOO CNN cries Uncle!!! “We got played, again, by the Trump campaign.” — John King, CNN.#birtherism
— Deplorable Patriot (@ThePatriot143) September 16, 2016
TRUMP
"President Obama was born in the United States. Now let"s get back to making America great." #birtherism #MAGA pic.twitter.com/FHWUKhtbfa— CC (@ChristiChat) September 16, 2016
I"m Donald. I got 11 million followers by claiming a Black Guy had to be from Kenya. Now I need Black votes, so I was kidding. #birtherism
— John (@linnyitssn) September 16, 2016
As a
American everyone should be offended that the #birtherism of movement of. The first African-American @POTUS Obama By @realDonaldTrump
— I am Who I am (@IAMCYIANA) September 16, 2016
Trump boasting that he got POTUS to show a birth cert makes him the 1st man in history to brag that someone proved he"s a liar. #birtherism
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) September 16, 2016
#Trump admits #Obama was born in US after he slanders #Hillary for #birtherism-he HAD A HOTEL TO OPEN. #ImWithHer pic.twitter.com/s5a4AqP4uv
— Girls Really Rule. (@girlsreallyrule) September 16, 2016
Trump"s #birtherism was open, direct and he always owned it.
Hillary"s #birtherism was covert, sneaky and always through surrogates.— Deplorable Haven (@HavenMonahan) September 16, 2016
WHAT. A. LIAR. #birtherism #NeverTrump pic.twitter.com/eGdgCaaFX9
— Girls Really Rule. (@girlsreallyrule) September 16, 2016
I may be white, but @realDonaldTrump stance on #birtherism angers me. His political life began w/ it and he spent 33 seconds "disavowing" it
— Kyle Heckel (@kheckel92) September 16, 2016
The @realDonaldTrump trying to gaslight us all. This sort of psychological manipulation as core campaign tactic is disgusting. #birtherism
— Annette (@maryannemarin) September 16, 2016
Mark J. Penn
2007-08 Campaign manager for Hillary Clinton. The original birther.#MAGA
#birtherism pic.twitter.com/cudBauZXlN— DEPLORABLE-MAGS (@magnifier661) September 16, 2016
But the issue is not likely to die down any time soon especially as Trump continues to blame Clinton for starting the “birtherism” controversy.
CNN reported Trump’s extraordinary attempt to prove Obama was not a natural-born US citizen and was therefore not qualified to be president started on the conservative fringe but gathered momentum and became a major issue. The White House initially tried to ignore the birtherism movement as the work of conspiracy theorists, but Trump’s huge media profile propelled the issue through conservative media and it eventually gained traction.
What do you think of Trump’s sudden shift on the issue? Do you need to see Obama’s birth certificate? Sound off below in the comments section.
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