--- title: Donald Trump Birther: Read President Obama's Speech description: "I don't know about you guys, but I am so relieved that the whole birther thing is over." canonical: https://time.com/4499409/barack-obama-donald-trump-birth-certificate-joke/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-19T15:06:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:48:17.898Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read President Obama's Jokey Speech About Birthers og:description: "I don't know about you, but I am so relieved that the birther thing is over." og:url: https://time.com/4499409/barack-obama-donald-trump-birth-certificate-joke/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt15baa498defaa687/6988a69ffb4eac013b88f299/gettyimages-607366884-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US President Barack Obama speaks during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Phoenix Awards Dinner on September 17, 2016 in Washington, DC. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read President Obama's Jokey Speech About Birthers twitter:description: "I don't know about you, but I am so relieved that the birther thing is over." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt15baa498defaa687/6988a69ffb4eac013b88f299/gettyimages-607366884-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read President Obama's Jokey Speech About his Birth Certificate by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Sep 19, 2016 3:06 PM UTC  US President Barack Obama speaks during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Phoenix Awards Dinner on September 17, 2016 in Washington, DC. US President Barack Obama speaks during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Phoenix Awards Dinner on September 17, 2016 in Washington, DC.CHRIS KLEPONIS—AFP/Getty Images by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Sep 19, 2016 3:06 PM UTC President Obama joked about Donald Trump’s [admission that he was born in the United States](http://time.com/4496913/donald-trump-barack-obama-birther/) in a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Saturday. “I don’t know about you guys, but I am so relieved that the whole birther thing is over,” he said at the 46th annual Phoenix Awards dinner. “I mean, ISIL, North Korea, poverty, climate change — none of those things weighed on my mind like the validity of my birth certificate.” Here is a transcript of the speech. --- > “” --- Donald Trump Birther: Read President Obama's Speech ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4499409/barack-obama-donald-trump-birth-certificate-joke/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4499409/barack-obama-donald-trump-birth-certificate-joke/"},"headline":"Read President Obama's Jokey Speech About his Birth Certificate","datePublished":"2016-09-19T15:06:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:48:17.898Z","description":"\"I don't know about you guys, but I am so relieved that the whole birther thing is over.\"","url":"https://time.com/4499409/barack-obama-donald-trump-birth-certificate-joke/","keywords":["2016 Election","Barack Obama","Donald Trump","transcripts"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt15baa498defaa687/6988a69ffb4eac013b88f299/gettyimages-607366884-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Teague Beckwith","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt15baa498defaa687/6988a69ffb4eac013b88f299/gettyimages-607366884-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US President Barack Obama speaks during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Phoenix Awards Dinner on September 17, 2016 in Washington, DC.","caption":"US President Barack Obama speaks during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Phoenix Awards Dinner on September 17, 2016 in Washington, DC.","creditText":"CHRIS KLEPONIS—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4499409/barack-obama-donald-trump-birth-certificate-joke/","name":"Read President Obama's Jokey Speech About his Birth Certificate"}}]}] ```