THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2026
It's the absolute truth, Gutfeld said: Is something wrong with President Trump?
Yesterday, he did a drop-in at the Supreme Court. Following that, he placed a familiar crazy claim right there on Truth Social.
Headline included, Mediaite reports:
‘STUPID’: Trump Rages Over Birthright Citizenship After Leaving Supreme Court Early
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to rage about birthright citizenship just moments after oral arguments concluded in the highly-anticipated Supreme Court case on the issue Wednesday.
“We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship! President DONALD J. TRUMP,” the president wrote on Truth Social.
It was Trump’s first public comment on the case since he attended the beginning of oral arguments on Wednesday. He’s the first sitting president to attend oral arguments in a Supreme Court case and was there for roughly 80 minutes before leaving.
We're the only country that STUPID, the sitting president said. Simply put, the president loves this groaning misstatement. It's been corrected again and again and again, but he just continues to say it.
Wisely or otherwise, do other countries have birthright citizenship, the same way we do? As the Christian Science Monitor explains, virtually every country in North and South America has unrestricted birthright citizenship, just the way we do.
That includes our immediate neighbors to the north and to the south. Under the fancy Latin heading Jus soli, the leading authority tattles:
Jus soli
[...]
Canada: Subsection 3(2) of the Citizenship Act states that Canadian citizenship by birth in Canada—including Canadian airspace and territorial waters—is granted to a child born in Canada even if neither parent was a Canadian citizen or permanent resident except if either parent was a diplomat, in service to a diplomat, or employed by an international agency of equal status to a diplomat. However, if neither parent was a diplomat, the nationality or immigration status of the parents does not matter.
Mexico: Article 30 of the Constitution of Mexico states that persons born in Mexican territory are natural-born citizens of Mexico regardless of their parents' nationality. The definition of "territory" includes vessels/aircraft flagged to Mexico travelling in international waters or airspace.
The leading authority provides a similar rundown for such South American countries as Argentina, Brazil and Chile (and on and on from there). Wisely or otherwise, virtually every country in the Americas has this unrestricted citizenship policy.
Having said that, so what? The president seems to prefer the bogus claim.
(Does he possibly believe his false claim? We have no idea.)
At any rate, the president emerged from the hearing, then banged out his bogus claim. As if that wasn't bad enough, after that, along came The Five.
Amazingly, the problem started with Jessica Tarlov, the program's twice-weekly liberal punching bag. During yesterday's second segment, she quoted the president's remark:
TARLOV (4/1/26): ...and you know that today didn't go well because Donald Trump's Truth Social post, once he left, was, “We are the only country in the world stupid enough to allow birthright citizenship."
He didn't say, "The government kicked butt." He didn't say, "We are going to win this thing." He said, basically, "I'm going to throw a temper tantrum." And a couple of—
At that point, the interruption came—in this case, from Greg Gutfeld. By the time the interruption had run its course, Gutfeld had told four million viewers that the president's statement was "the absolute truth"—and there was indication that Tarlov disagreed.
Let the interruption begin! To see the exchange, click here:
[Continuing directly from above]
GUTFELD: That was a fact! Is that not a fact? It doesn't matter?
TARLOV: No, it actually doesn't matter, because you know how he behaves when he's excited about something. You know—
GUTFELD: So you're focusing on emotion and not the fact that's the absolute truth.
Tarlov blustered a bit from there. She never said that the president's familiar claim is in fact crazily false.
In all honesty, Tarlov herself seemed to believe that the president's claim was accurate. Gutfeld proceeded to tell four million souls that the president's crazy claim is "the absolute truth."
So it goes on the most-watched "cable news" show in our un-serious nation. We've never seen a major Blue American journalist comment on the imitation of life produced by the Fox News Channel in the form of this clown-car program.
That happened during yesterday's second segment. During the third segment, the program gave birth to the latest plea by Jesse Watters. We'll touch on that prayer tomorrow.
At any rate, the president made one of his crazy clams. It's the absolute truth, Gutfeld said.
Tarlov never disagreed, and neither did anyone else. As a nation, the Blue with the Red, this is the clown car we've chosen.
The SC decision depends on the law and the precedents. IMO Trump will lose on the law. What other countries do is not too important, Yesterday, on BBC they said a number of European countries do not give birthright citizenship to visitors. But, that doesn't really matter.
ReplyDeleteIMO it's a shame that birthright citizenship for visitors is in the Constitution. This is not a fundamental freedom, like freedom of speech. There is no automatic reason why every children of every tourist born her -- even children who never live here -- should automatically be a US citizens. And, there is a big organized group utilizing this loophole. But I think we will just have to live with this.
It’s guaranteed by an amendment to the constitution, DiC, just as the freedom of speech is.
DeleteName the precedents you moron David.
Delete“What other countries do is not too important, “
DeleteIt is not relevant at all but you should tell King Chickenshit and just Solicitor General (another one of his lawyers)
You mean a President can’t just scribble his pubic hair signature on a piece of paper that purports to overrule the Constitution on Day 1?
Delete"This is not a fundamental freedom, like freedom of speech."
ReplyDeleteUh, here's a clue, dickweed. Nazis don't have freedom of speech. We already heard everything they had to say, and then we executed them for crimes against humanity. 😎
"This is not a fundamental freedom, like freedom of speech."
DeleteThe most American thing I've seen in the last two years are the protests on college campuses against Israel's genocide of Palestinians.
Children, teach your grown-ups well.
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ReplyDelete" As the Christian Science Monitor explains, virtually every country in North and South America has unrestricted birthright citizenship, just the way we do. "
ReplyDeleteTrue, but misleading. Birthright citizenship is relatively uncommon. According to the Wall Street Journal, around 32 countries have birthright citizenship like the US. That means around 170 countries do not have birthright citizenship like us. In other words, only around 15% of nations have it
So? It’s in the constitution.
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