The sociopathic assholes that we call US presidents really don't have to be bright... They just need one tool to keep their jobs: Violence.
Of course the cert is fake. There is no conceivable way to produce that screwed-up document without poorly faking it, and every programmer that ever worked on OCR->PDF will agree.
Sadly, our reality is that those with power are sociopaths, and if you try to take inconveniences like this to the highest levels, you find only violence & death.
Welcome to planet earth.
There is some hope however. This is evidence that guns & violence do not remove the evidence... That murder is not stronger than math in the long run.
The cypherpunks figured this out over 2 decades ago, and have been using math to put an end to this shit ever since. Bitcoin is just one of many products that use this exact revelation to bring about a sociopathic-leader-free world one day.
WAZAM