The Post & Email by Sharon Rondeau 5/6/2026
On his Wednesday night program, “Jesse Watters Primetime,” in a comparison drawn between “Barack Hussein Obama” and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, host Jesse Watters declared Obama “definitely not born in Africa.”
Mamdani was born in Uganda, which Watters pointed out would preclude him from running for president.
Article II, Section 1, clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution requires the president and commander-in-chief to be a “natural born Citizen,” a term the Framers did not define when they wrote the founding document.
Many Americans understand “natural born Citizen” to mean simply “born in the United States.” However, others, particularly legal scholars who follow the issue closely, say it imposes a higher citizenship standard by requiring that a presidential candidate’s parents have been U.S. citizens when the candidate was born in the United States.
Obama claims to have been born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961 to a U.S.-citizen mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, and a Kenyan-born, British-citizen father, Barack Hussein Obama (Sr.). No hospital has confirmed the claim, and an image released by the White House on April 27, 2011 said to be a PDF of Obama’s “long-form” birth certificate held by the Hawaii Department of Health (HDOH) was later found by a criminal investigation to be a “computer-generated forgery.”
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