'After All He Did to Him': Social Media Erupts As Video Emerges of Barack Obama, Donald Trump Laughing Together Months After President-Elect Threatened 'Violence' Against Michelle Obama

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : He was the only former president to engage with Trump.
39% : It was a conspiracy theory grounded in racism, and when the nation's first Black president offered unassailable proof he was born in Hawaii, Trump was diminished and dismissed.
36% : "President Obama is being so gracious to Trump after all he did to him," wrote one X user.
28% : After all, it was just two months ago that Trump asked the crowd at one of his rallies if he was allowed to "hit (Michelle Obama) now" after the former first lady delivered a devastating takedown of the Republican nominee in her speech to the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
28% : In the early 2010s, Trump emerged as a right-wing hero when he questioned the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate.
26% : And where are Biggie and Tupac?"Adviser Roger Stone said Obama's speech served as a turning point for Trump.
26% : "Trump would go on to baselessly allege his predecessor had "illegally spied" on him.
17% : Donald Trump and Barack Obama go way back, but no one would've expected the warm, friendly conversation the two appeared to share Thursday morning at the funeral for former President Jimmy Carter.
14% : George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush ignored Trump and his wife, Melania.
5% : And Trump would have the last laugh after Obama decided to exact some revenge for the birther nonsense at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Association dinner with jokes like this one:"Now, I know that he's taken some flak lately, but no one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the Donald," Obama said.

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