Roast of barack obama full biography

Five years before he won the presidency and became one of the most powerful people on the planet, Donald Trump was just a reality-TV famous real estate mogul from New York who had been spreading criticisms and conspiracies about then-President Barack Obama.

One of those theories — that Obama wasn't born in the United States — came back to haunt him in infamous fashion, after Obama released his birth certificate and roasted Trump for his role in the so-called "birther" movement at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Association dinner.

Chris Christie was in the room where it happened.

The former New Jersey governor writes in his new book, Republican Rescue: Saving the Party from Truth Deniers, Conspiracy Theorists, and the Dangerous Policies of Joe Biden, about being in attendance at the April 30, 2011, event at the Washington Hilton.

The dinner —