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Donald Trump wouldn't answer yes or no when asked if President Obama was born in the United States
The former 'birther' said he no longer liked to talk about the issue and would rather chat about jobs
Addressing the recent controversy, Trump said extremist Muslims are the problem while other American Muslims are 'fabulous'

By Nikki Schwab, U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com

Published: 16:10 EST, 20 September 2015 | Updated: 01:38 EST, 21 September 2015

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Donald Trump hasn't completely given up his 'birther' past.

On Sunday's' Meet the Press host Chuck Todd asked the current GOP frontrunner why the billionaire wouldn't take President Barack Obama's word and say the POTUS was born in the United States.

'Well, I just don't want to discuss it,' Trump said, explaining he'd like to talk about jobs, veterans and how veterans are treated better than illegal immigrants.

As for the 'birther' issue: it's 'a long, complex subject that I don't like talking about, and I won't talk about it,' Trump said.

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Donald Trump, seen here campaigning in Iowa, has been defending himself against criticism started when he didn't correct an audience member who told Trump President Obama was a Muslim and not an American. When asked about Obama's birthplace on Sunday, Trump didn't want to discuss it

Before his Sunday show appearances, Trump took to Twitter on Saturday and defended himself, saying President Obama wouldn't pay him the favor if an Obama fan said something 'nasty or controversial' about Trump

Trump went on not one, not two, but three of the Sunday morning shows and spent time on each addressing the recent controversy over whether the billionaire should have corrected or scolded an attendee at a New Hampshire town hall when the participant said Obama was a Muslim.

The man went further and said of the president, 'You know he's not even an American.'

For years, Trump was one of the most vocal 'birthers' who questioned where the president was born.

In 2011, the White House released the president's long form birth certificate to curtail these attacks on the legitimacy of Obama's election, as only 'natural born citizens' and citizens of the United States can hold the office of president.

By May 2014, Trump's stance had changed to make him more of a 'truther.'

By that point, Trump said there was a 'very good chance' that Obama pretended to be Kenyan in order to attract financial aid for college.

'Because if you say you were born in Kenya, you got aid, and you got into colleges,' Trump said, 'People were doing that.'

Now, Trump simply says he's not talking Obama's origin.

'I just don't discuss it,' Trump said.

'And it really hasn't been brought up for a long time, I mean you're bringing it up this morning, but I'm into the world of jobs, I'm into the world of military and vets and frankly, I discuss Obamacare, you see what's happening with the premiums – they're going through the roof – a lot of problems with Obamacare,' Trump said, changing the subject.

On George Stephanopoulos' show, This Week, Trump said the same thing

'But the way to get beyond it is to answer yes or no,' the host pressed.

The controversy began Thursday when a Donald Trump supporter (pictured) told the candidate that President Obama was a Muslim and wasn't even an American

Trump shrugged.

'Well, that's possible, but I don't get into it, and I just don't talk about it.'

On Meet the Press, Todd also asked Trump why he wouldn't 'concede that the president is a Christian.'

Trump responded that he didn't talk about people's faith.

'Now, in all fairness, he said he was a Christian and he said he is a Christian,' Trump replied.

'He attended the church of Reverend Wright, and so, you know, I'm willing to take him at is word for that. I have no problem with that,' Trump said, referring to Obama's controversial pastor whose anti-American sermons forced the then-senator to quit Wright's church in the run-up to the 2008 election.

The man who raised the question Thursday night in New Hampshire was wearing a Trump t-shirt and said bluntly, 'we have a problem in this country – it's called Muslims,' he began, before remarking on Obama.

'Anyway, we have training camps growing where they want to kill us. That's my question: When can we get rid of them?' the man asked Trump.

Saturday on Twitter, Trump defended himself from the criticism he received for not correcting the questioner by saying that Obama wouldn't have paid him the same courtesy.

'If someone made a nasty or controversial statement about me to the president, do you really think he would come to my rescue? No chance!' Trump tweeted, adding that it was a 'no win' situation because he would have interfered with the man's freedom of speech had he interrupted.

As for what the man said about Muslims, Trump explained on the morning shows that there was a problem with Muslims, but with extremist Muslims.

'Well you have radicals that are doing things,' Trump said on Jake Tapper's show, State of the Union. 'It wasn't people from Sweden who blew up the World Trade Center, Jake.'

As for your everyday, American Muslims, Trump sang them praises.

'Well, I feel strongly that Muslims are excellent,' Trump said on Meet the Press. 'I know so many Muslims that are such fabulous people.'