Trump under fire for insulting the United States

In a lengthy post on TruthSocial about a major Supreme Court case concerning birthright citizenship, the President of the United States had some particularly strange things to say about his country and those who live in it.

On Truth Social, Trump urged the Supreme Court to recognize, as part of its review of a case related to his recent executive order on birthright citizenship, that this constitutional right was never intended to apply to children born in the U.S. to illegal or temporary foreign nationals.

At the same time, he didn’t hesitate to launch a few attacks on his own country.

Denouncing what he sees as the exploitation of American advantages by non-citizens, Trump describes illegal immigrants as individuals who have come to “scam our country”, and accuses people from all over the world of taking undue advantage of birthright citizenship.

According to him, this situation is a direct result of the country’s stupidity: “We are, for the sake of being politically correct, a STUPID Country.”

In his message, Trump asserts that Birthright Citizenship was aimed solely at the children of slaves freed after the Civil War, and was never intended for those who “taking vacations to become permanent Citizens of the United States of America, and bringing their families with them, all the time laughing (…)”.

The Supreme Court is not currently ruling on the constitutionality of Trump’s executive order to restrict the right to land, but is instead examining whether lower courts have exceeded their authority by blocking its implementation with domestic injunctions.

This issue could reopen the door to a reinterpretation of the 14th Amendment, adopted in 1868 to grant citizenship to former slaves, whose broad wording includes anyone born on American soil, regardless of the parents’ migration status, with the exception of children of foreign diplomats.

By calling the United States and its citizens guilty of maintaining the right of citizenship, Trump is not only challenging a constitutional provision, he is also calling into question a founding principle of American identity: that of inclusive and universal citizenship.

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