Obama talks Trump, debates and baseball on US chat show

Barack Obama has chatted about Donald Trump, presidential debates and baseball on a US chat show.

Yesterday the billionaire offered to donate $5 million to the President's charity of choice if he would release his college and passport records.

He has became a leading voice in the "birther" movement - the conspiracy theory that Obama was actually born outside the US and isn't constitutionally eligible to be president.

The President told NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno that Trump's grudge with him goes way, way back - to their childhood days in Kenya.

Obama's chat show appearance come less than two weeks before the US presidential election.

When asked if he was glad the debates were over, Mr Obama said:

Mr Obama, whose performance in the first debate was widely criticised said he did not do an effective job of outlining the contrast of visions between him and Republican rival Mitt Romney.

Part of the problem with a debate, he said, is that it is not a natural way of communicating - having an argument with someone as you sit next to him.

Mr Leno said: "Well, you're married."

Mr Obama responded by saying: "But the difference is, with Michelle, I just concede every point."

When asked whether he was backing the Detroit Tigers or the San Francisco Giants in the World Series, he managed to get in a dig at Mr Romney:

He also commented on the National Hockey League strike: