Donald Trump Goes Birther Again as He Calls President Obama Our “President”

Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:21 pm

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Donald Trump, having claimed to resolve President Obama’s birther problem (a problem Trump himself was responsible for), now seems to have jumped on the birther wagon again. Speaking at a rally in Bangor, Maine, Saturday, Trump claimed, in speaking of Hillary Clinton,

“And she wants 550 percent more coming from Syria than the thousands and thousands that our president, quote ‘president,’ has coming in.”

Trump even made air quotes around the word “president.”

Trump has grown ever more desperate as his presidential hopes crumble, sounding more erratic, if not unhinged, with each passing day. It is, of course, possible that Trump is hinting that perhaps Obama is not legitimately president for some other reason. After all, the Republican-controlled Congress seems never to have recognized Barack Obama as president, despite two wins.

However, given the increasingly erratic nature of Trump’s rhetoric, it is not outside the realm of possibility that, faced with imminent defeat, Trump has decided to play the birther card once again.

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Hrafnkell Haraldsson

Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.