The New York Times is reporting President Trump is continuing to promote a racist and discredited conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States, and therefore is not eligible to be president. President Obama was born in the U.S. state of Hawaii in 1961. But for years President Trump has been a leader of the so-called birther movement, a far-right-wing fringe group, mostly of white supremacists, who question the validity of President Obama’s U.S. birth certificate.