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One thing is clear in the feud between U.S. President Barack Obama and blowhard businessman Donald Trump: the president has better comedy writers on his staff.

On the same day Trump took to YouTube in an attempt to blackmail the president via charity, Obama appeared on “The Tonight Show” to explain the source of Trump’s resentment of him.

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“This all dates back to when we were growing up together in Kenya,” the Hawaii-born Obama dryly told Jay Leno. “We had constant run-ins on the soccer fields. He wasn’t very good and resented it. When we finally moved to America, I thought it would be over.”

Trump, the real estate mogul turned television caricature, is the de-facto leader of the “birther” movement — the long discredited but remarkably resilient conspiracy theory that Obama was born outside of the U.S. and thus, is not constitutionally eligible to be president.

Earlier Wednesday, Trump offered $5 million to the charity of Obama’s choice if he would release his academic records and passport applications.