1. Ben Smith and Maggie Haberman, “What’s Donald Trump Really After?” Politico, April 18, 2011.
2. Ashley Parker and Steve Eder, “How Trump’s ‘Birther’ Claims Helped to Stir Presidential Bid,” New York Times, July 3, 2016, p. A1.
3. Michael D. Shear, “Citing ‘Silliness,’ Obama Shows Birth Certificate,” New York Times, April 28, 2011, p. A1.
4. Maggie Haberman, “Trump’s New Hampshire Victory Lap,” Politico, April 27, 2011.
5. E. Alex Jung, “This Joke Was Off-Limits at Donald Trump’s Comedy Central Roast,” Vulture, August 3, 2016.
6. Roxanne Roberts, “I Sat Next to Donald Trump at the Infamous 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner,” Washington Post, April 29, 2016, p. C3.
7. For Busey’s 2018 book Buseyisms, Trump contributed a cover blurb, but at the last minute Busey’s partner Steffanie Sampson decided it might hurt sales and had it removed.
8. Nick Gass, “31 Times Trump Got Roasted,” Politico, April 29, 2016.
9. Roberts, “I Sat Next to Donald Trump at the Infamous 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner.”
10. Ibid.
11. Maggie Haberman, “Trump’s Poll Numbers Collapse,” Politico, May 10, 2011.
12. Nia-Malika Henderson, “Trump Drops ‘Birther’ Talk in N.H. Speech,” Washington Post, May 12, 2011.
13. Karen Tumulty and Nia-Malika Henderson, “Trump Won’t Run—But Says He’d Win if He Did,” Washington Post, May 17, 2011.
14. Ewen MacAskill, “Trump Rules Himself Out of Election Race,” Guardian, May 17, 2011, p. 22.
15. Tumulty and Henderson, “Trump Won’t Run—But Says He’d Win if He Did.”