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On 21 September 2016, the Washington Post published a satirical poem by humorist Garrison Keillor that included a line stating Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was born in the city of Manila in the Phillippines, and not in Queens, New York: The poem was not preceded or followed by any disclaimers labeling it as satire, leaving some readers fooled into thinking that Keillor was making a bold declaration about Trump's non-American birthplace. However, the opening stanza made it clear that the focus of the poem was to mock Trump's spreading of various conspiracy theories during the 2016 campaign: Donald Trump was in fact born in Queens, New York. His birth certificate states that he was born at Jamaica Hospital on 14 June 1946:
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