One of Donald Trump’s dumbest and most vile domestic priorities is “ending birthright citizenship” and reversing the 14th Amendment. As in, everyone born on American soil is an American citizen, even if their parents are immigrants or here on a tourist visa or what have you. My father was here on a work visa when I was born (he became a naturalized citizen a couple of years after I was born), so I’ve been sort of following this bullsh-t. The thing is, you have to take the larger view: if birthright citizenship is overturned, what else is there? Like, how in the world would citizenship even be determined? Would there be a mass revocation of citizenship from millions of natural-born citizens? These are the questions now before the majority wingnut Supreme Court. SCOTUS began hearing oral arguments on birthright citizenship yesterday. Donald Trump waddled into the court in person in an attempt to create his own The Godfather Part II scene where Frank Pentangeli’s brother walks into the Congressional hearing.
President Trump had seen enough. He spent about an hour listening to the government make its case against birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, making him the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the high court.
His presence, which put him face-to-face with justices whom he has tried to bully and intimidate, only raised the stakes of an already closely watched case about what it means to be an American, an issue that was key to his political rise. But about 13 minutes into the opposing argument by the American Civil Liberties Union, Mr. Trump abruptly got up and walked out, trailed by two escorts.
Mr. Trump has made little room for dissent during his second stint in the White House, and it was no different on Wednesday at the court. In all, Mr. Trump spent about an hour in the courtroom’s public gallery, listening as the justices across the ideological spectrum questioned his efforts to strictly limit birthright citizenship.
Mr. Trump has long attacked judges who defy him, but the president’s relationship with the Supreme Court justices became even more strained after the court’s decision in February to invalidate his tariffs plan, which like immigration is at the heart of his administration’s agenda.
A hush came over the courtroom as Mr. Trump entered the room. He arrived about 10 minutes before the oral arguments began, accompanied by his attorney general, Pam Bondi, as well as the White House counsel, David Warrington.
Wearing a red tie, Mr. Trump sat with his hands clasped in his lap as the arguments delved quickly into a history lesson about the 19th century debate surrounding the 14th Amendment. The president’s seat was at least half a dozen rows behind the lectern, where his solicitor general, D. John Sauer, stands. Mr. Sauer previously worked as Mr. Trump’s personal attorney. The justices did not appear to acknowledge Mr. Trump’s presence, instead focusing their attention on the two lawyers presenting the case.
Mr. Trump departed the Supreme Court just as Cecillia Wang, the A.C.L.U. lawyer, and the justices went back and forth on questions central to the case, including whether undocumented immigrants or temporary visitors, such as students or workers on visas, should receive automatic U.S. citizenship
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Upon his return to the White House, Mr. Trump issued a public reaction to the arguments on social media, falsely claiming the United States was “the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship!” The United States is among at least 30 countries that automatically grant citizenship to anyone born within its borders.
Yeah, he went there as a mob boss to wordlessly and obesely threaten the wingnut justices. What’s remarkable is that the wingnut justices weren’t bothered by Trump’s orange, walrus-like visage. Even the conservative justices were massively skeptical of D. John Sauer’s oral arguments, including Sauer’s answers about whether Native Americans would be citizens under Trump’s new citizenship policies.
GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test?
SAUER: Ah, I think … so. I have to think that through. pic.twitter.com/9OxV0ZBlRi
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 1, 2026
HAPPENING NOW: Trump just suffered a humiliating blow while in attendance at the Supreme Court – as John Roberts SHUTS DOWN the government lawyer arguing against Birth Right Citizenship.
This is not going well for them:
SAUER: “We’re in a new world where 8 billion people… pic.twitter.com/RnvMCiIH5U
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) April 1, 2026
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
