The presumptive Republican nominee has been a longtime critic of the president.
Trump was one of the most outspoken voices in the “birther” movement, which questioned Obama’s citizenship and demanded his birth certificate to prove he was born in the United States. Obama released the certificate in April 2011.
As recently as 2015, Trump has maintained that he’s still a birther, and said that Hillary Clinton started the birther movement:
“You know who started the birth movement? You know who started it? Do you know who questioned his birth certificate, one of the first? Hillary Clinton,” Trump told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in May. “She’s the one that started it. She brought it up years before it was brought up by me.”
Trump has also been critical of Obama’s foreign policy record and has linked Hillary Clinton with his policies.
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