President Obama chided a reporter Friday for asking him about the Donald Trump campaign’s latest opinion on whether he was born in the United States, and said the 2016 election needs to get more serious.
“I… have no reaction and I’m shocked that a question like that has come up at a time when we have so many other things to do,” Obama said in a brief appearance before reporters that mostly focused on his push to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
“Well, I’m not that shocked actually; it’s fairly typical,” Obama admitted. “We got other things to attend to.”
“I was pretty confident about where I was born,” Obama added. “I think most people were as well. My hope would be the presidential election reflects more serious issues than that.”
Trump’s campaign said Thursday that it believes Obama was born in Hawaii as his birth certificate shows, and moments after Obama spoke, Trump himself said the same thing, and said he would now start focusing on making America “great again.”
