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There must be a stronger word than hypocrisy to describe the media/Democrat reaction to President Donald Trump’s legitimate and commonsense interpretation of the 14th Amendment and “birthright citizenship.” Section 1 reads: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Trump rejects the widely accepted interpretation that the 14th Amendment grants immediate citizenship to any child born on American soil, even if the child’s parents are in the country illegally. Trump believes the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, was designed to confer citizenship on newly freed slaves.
In fact, Sen. Jacob Howard of Michigan, who introduced the amendment, said, “[The 14th amendment] will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States, but will include every other class of person.”
Trump’s opponents cry, “How dare Trump ‘unilaterally’ and by ‘executive order’ reinterpret the 14th Amendment?” Trump, they say, thinks he’s a king. He is “acting like a tyrant.”
The Supreme Court will have the final say and will almost certainly interpret the 14th Amendment in Trump’s favor.
Where were the “Trump is not a king” critics during the Obama and Biden presidencies?
In October 2010, President Barack Obama said he lacked the power to grant protected status to illegal aliens. “I am president. I am not king,” Obama said. “I can’t do these things just by myself.”
Two years later, during his 2012 reelection campaign, he proceeded to act like a king. He issued the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to protect some 1 million illegal immigrants from deportation. Obama then protected another 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation under the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) program.
Days ago, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against DACA. Eventually, the Supreme Court will likely definitively decide that these programs exceed presidential power as Obama, who taught constitutional law, used to believe.
This brings us to President Joe Biden and his student debt relief programs. In July 2021, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, “People think that the President of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not. He can postpone. He can delay. But he does not have that power.”
Later that year, Biden provided student debt relief to hundreds of thousands of borrowers. Eventually, Biden forgave some $180 billion of student loans in total. In 2023, the Supreme Court ruled against Biden’s student debt relief. Biden simply crafted another debt relief program recently blocked by a federal court.
This brings us to DEI — diversity, equity and inclusion. In 2023, the Supreme Court ruled against the use of race as a criterion in admission to colleges and universities, even if the goal is to achieve diversity. The court held racial preferences violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, as well as Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet, Biden made DEI a goal of every part of the federal government, as did Obama.
Biden went even further. On his first day in office, Biden issued an executive order called “Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.” Months later, Biden issued another DEI executive order that said, “As the nation’s largest employer, the federal government must be a model for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, where all employees are treated with dignity and respect.”
Trump in the first days of his second presidency nullified Biden’s DEI executive orders. Trump’s executive order revoked the “illegal DEI and ‘diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility’ (DEIA) mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the Federal Government, under whatever name they appear.”
Hypocrites in the media and Democrats denounce Trump’s “dictatorial” interpretation of 14th Amendment on birthright citizenship, but cheered Biden’s blatantly illegal and unilateral measures to protect illegal immigrants from deportation, to grant student debt relief and to inject race into virtually every aspect of the federal government.
It’s going to be a long four years.
Everything the DemoNazi Party does is straight out of Saul Alinsky’s diabolical book, Rules for Radicals.
When you apprehend the strategy, they are completely unmasked and undermined:
RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)
We want to know what they can do for us, not just rape women & young girls & then kill them. There is a way to stop the rapes, remember John Bobbitt? Most guys love that body part, & would NOT like loosing it.
It seems the only time t he Demo-Rats were Interested in the U.S. Constitution was with their Failed Impeachment and the 25th Amendment otherwise the Demo-Rats just ignore or sneered their noses at the rest of the Amendments especially the 1st and 2nd Amendments as the 8th as well
A long four years for Dirtbagocrats and other leftists, right? I look forward to their 1460 days of suffering, especially for what they illegally inflicted on America the last four years. As if Basement Biden was legitimately elected.
Howevee much I like the executive orders Trump keeps signig I’m not sure he’s allowed to ban men from women’s sports. In a sane world, there would be no need for such a ban, any more than there would be a need to ban walking out of your house naked in 50 below weather. It would be sane, obvious common sense. But since the lunatics have been running the asylum lately, there’s a need for such a ban, and I think the Constitution requires Congress to vote on it.
I also don’t want Trump taking over Gaza.
Isn’t it a case of merely withholding fed funds? Which is his right and is in no way an outright ban per se
I don’t believe the “taking over Gaza” statement by Trump means what almost everybody interprets it to mean. It’s a negotiating tactic — like insisting he wants Canada to be the 51st state (perish the thought; I lived there for 17 years; who wants millions more Democrat voters in the U.S.?) Suddenly, he’s got the parties in the Middle East situation looking at things differently, and Trump’s “threat” may well force a different and actual workable solution — which of course hasn’t happened over decades because they’ve been attempting to solve the problem over and over using the same failed tactics.
re: Democrats howling about birthright citizenship: “Whaaaa, Trump is wrecking our Great Reset plans. Where will we find voters dumb enough to fall for our con? Whaaaa!”
Trump has every right to protect women’s sports from men. Go Trump!!! I love men, but the Dems are trying to hurt ladies. Booo Hiss.
Linda
…who’s Imperial presidency??
Ex-DNC official dishes on who was actually running country under Biden, who Kamala really paid
bizpacreview. com/2025/02/07/ex-dnc-official-dishes-on-who-was-actually-running-country-under-biden-who-kamala-really-paid-1521338/
A former Democratic National Committee official revealed a shocking take on how the Biden administration was really a “third term” for former President Barack Obama.
Several videos. The level of Democrat deception and lies disclosed is astounding.