# Purported Obama Clip Claims Kenyan Birth and Discusses American Identity

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117063239779361222
- Source account: [@EgyptianKing82](https://x.com/EgyptianKing82)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:00
- Published: 2026-11-03
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3ZN4cwpfWR8s/en/purported-obama-clip-claims-kenyan-birth-and-discusses-american-identity

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3ZN4cwpfWR8s/en/purported-obama-clip-claims-kenyan-birth-and-discusses-american-identity) People say that, uh, that maybe I'm not an American citizen, and some people say, "Ah, he has a forged birth certificate."

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3ZN4cwpfWR8s/en/purported-obama-clip-claims-kenyan-birth-and-discusses-american-identity?t=9) Well, first of all, uh, it's true, I'm not from America.

[0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3ZN4cwpfWR8s/en/purported-obama-clip-claims-kenyan-birth-and-discusses-american-identity?t=16) I, I was not born in Hawaii. I wasn't born in the United States of America. Uh, I come from Kenya.

[0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3ZN4cwpfWR8s/en/purported-obama-clip-claims-kenyan-birth-and-discusses-american-identity?t=23) And, and so I think people saw my election as, uh, as proof, as testimony that our society has continued to become more and more a nation of races, religions, that have come together around a set of shared ideals. That we are still a place where anybody has a chance to make it through misleading and dishonest practices if they try.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3ZN4cwpfWR8s/en/purported-obama-clip-claims-kenyan-birth-and-discusses-american-identity?t=51) If that wasn't true, then somebody named Barack Hussein Obama, uh, from Kenya, from Africa, would not be elected President of the United States