Obama: 'I was pretty confident about where I was born'

President Barack Obama.
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Donald Trump might have his doubts, but President Obama is positive he knows his own place of birth. "I was pretty confident about where I was born," Obama, who was born in Hawaii, said in an interview Friday. "I think most people were as well." Trump, who has long promoted the theory that Obama was not born in the U.S., released a campaign statement Thursday night announcing he now believes Obama was born in America.

All jokes aside, Obama said he's a little disappointed that there is still so much focus on his birthplace when there are so many other topics to be discussed. "Well, I'm not that shocked actually. It's fairly typical," Obama said, adding that his "hope would be that the presidential election reflects more serious issues than that."

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