Birthright Citizenship

President Donald Trump used a Monday Truth Social post to lash out at the Supreme Court for striking down most of his global tariff program and to warn that a similar decision against his birthright‑citizenship executive order would 'make China and various other nations happy and rich.' He accused the Court— pointedly writing 'supreme court' in lower case—of doing a 'great job for the wrong people,' while exempting the three justices who sided with him in the tariff case. Trump’s order, signed his first day back in office, seeks to end birthright citizenship for nearly all children born in the United States to undocumented parents or parents on temporary non‑immigrant visas, by reinterpreting the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause; the justices are expected to review that order in the coming months. Opponents argue the move is unconstitutional, would break with roughly 150 years of precedent, and could jeopardize the status of an estimated 150,000 U.S.-born children each year and some 4.4 million minors now living with at least one undocumented parent. The post escalates Trump’s public pressure campaign on the Court and frames a foundational constitutional battle over who is a citizen as part of his broader confrontation with China and his hard‑line immigration agenda.