All the revelations of Obama spying on Trump
is just the final episode in a long history of Obama insulting Trump
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/president-obamas-long-history-insulting-donald-trump-43450835
What Donald Trump has said through the years about where President Obama was born
Spring 2011: Trump joins the movement
April 2011: Obama releases his long-form birth certificate
At the White House correspondents dinner, in front of high-ranking lawmakers, top journalists, powerful Washington insiders and Trump himself, Obama skewered him.
https://youtu.be/k8TwRmX6zs4
2013: Trump keeps the falsehood alive
Trump continued to spread conspiracy theories about the birth certificate the year after Obama was reelected, suggesting the death of a Hawaiian official was somehow related to a cover-up of the president’s true origins.
June 2015: Trump announced in June 2015 that he would run for president as a Republican. A month later, he renewed his doubts about Obama’s birthplace. "I don't know. I really don't know," he said during a CNN interview.
Early 2016: Trump dodges birther questions
Summer 2016: Trump’s campaign starts to say he’s changed his belief
September 2016: Trump acknowledges the truth about Obama
At the same time, he claimed it was Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent who ran against Obama in the 2008 primary, who originally raised questions about the president’s birth.
Fact Check: Did Hillary Clinton start the birther movement?
"It's interesting; the whole birther thing was started by the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2008 against Barack Obama," Cruz said.
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/2015/07/31/fact-check-did-hillary-clinton-start-birther-movement/15673893007/
We did find one May 20, 2012, article in Bloomberg BusinessWeek by Joshua Green, who said he saw a memo to Clinton from her chief strategist, Mark Penn, who wrote: "… I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and his values."
Penn's memo suggested how the campaign might take advantage of this. "Every speech should contain the line that you were born in the middle of America to the middle class in the middle of the last century," he advised Clinton. "… Let's explicitly own 'American' in our programs, the speeches and the values. He doesn't
April 2016
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/white-house-correspondents-dinner/stars-arrive-obama-gets-one-more-chance-zing-correspondents-dinner-n565431
"Is this dinner too tacky for The Donald? What could he possibly be doing instead? Is he at home, eating a Trump steak, tweeting out insults to Angela Merkel? What’s he doing?"
Obama joked about Trump’s foreign policy experience, saying, "There’s one area where Donald’s experience could be invaluable, and that’s closing Guantanamo. Because Trump knows a thing or two about running waterfront properties into the ground."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obamas-long-history-insulting-donald-trump/story?id=43442367
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/president-obamas-long-history-insulting-donald-trump-43450835
August 2016 -Obama and Brennan launch spying operation on Trump, Cruz and others
And then Trump cites "The Snake" Poem on the campaign trail