For the first time, Donald Trump has admitted that President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Trump’s comments on Friday came more than five years after he became a leader of the so-called birther movement. Trump falsely accused Hillary Clinton of questioning Obama’s citizenship.

Donald Trump: “Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. I finished it. You know what I mean. President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period.”

President Obama laughed off Trump’s admission, telling a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation dinner, “In other breaking news, the world is round, not flat.”

President Barack Obama: “I am so relieved that the whole birther thing is over. I mean, ISIL, North Korea, poverty, climate change—none of those things weighed on my mind like the validity of my birth certificate.”