{"id":49136,"date":"2016-09-18T22:06:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T22:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49136"},"modified":"2016-09-18T22:06:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T22:06:41","slug":"emotional-obama-tearfully-thanks-trump-for-granting-him-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49136","title":{"rendered":"Emotional Obama Tearfully Thanks Trump for Granting Him Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/emotional-obama-tearfully-thanks-trump-for-granting-him-citizenship\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Emotional Obama Tearfully Thanks Trump for Granting Him Citizenship<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\" target=\"_blank\">Borowitz Report<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a><br \/>\n2016-09-16<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BorowitzReport\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Andy Borowitz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington,_D.C.\" target=\"_blank\">WASHINGTON<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\" target=\"_blank\">The Borowitz Report<\/a>)\u2014Calling this \u201cthe greatest day of my life,\u201d a visibly moved <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> held a news conference on Friday to thank <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> for granting him U.S. citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue of whether or not I was a U.S. citizen has been a dark cloud over my existence for as long as I can remember,\u201d a tearful Obama told the press corps. \u201cOnly one man had the courage, wisdom, and doggedness to make that cloud go away: Donald J. Trump.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_sharp_obamamock_160918\" width=\"635\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article (with tongue-in-cheek)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/emotional-obama-tearfully-thanks-trump-for-granting-him-citizenship\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emotional Obama Tearfully Thanks Trump for Granting Him Citizenship Borowitz Report The New Yorker 2016-09-16 Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)\u2014Calling this \u201cthe greatest day of my life,\u201d a visibly moved Barack Obama held a news conference on Friday to thank Donald Trump for granting him U.S. citizenship. \u201cThe issue of whether or not I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,20,842],"tags":[25001,24986,21057,25002,3886],"class_list":["post-49136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","category-videos","tag-andy-borowitz","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-the-borowitz-report","tag-the-new-yorker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49137,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49136\/revisions\/49137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}