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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

Trump tears into Supreme Court with birthright citizenship ‘hoax’ rant

President Donald Trump has lashed out at the U.S. Supreme Court as it weighs the future of birthright citizenship, characterizing the issue as a “money making hoax.”

“It’s too bad that the Supreme Court can’t watch and study the Mark Levin Show tonight on the Birthright Citizenship Scam,” the president posted on Truth Social, late Easter Sunday.

“If they saw it they would never allow that money making HOAX to continue. THEY SHOULD USE THEIR POWERS OF COMMON SENSE FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY.

“They failed miserably on Tariffs, needlessly costing the USA Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in potential rebates for the benefit haters and scammers. Why??? Don’t do it again! The Country can only withstand so many bad decisions from a Court that just doesn’t seem to care.”

The highest court in the land currently has a six-three conservative majority, with Trump himself having nominated three of the right-leaning justices, which has not stopped the president growing increasingly frustrated by its decision making.

In February, he railed against the justices for ruling against his global tariffs program, saying at a press conference: “I’m ashamed of certain members of the court. Absolutely ashamed for not having the courage to do what’s right for our country… It’s an embarrassment to their families, to one another.”

He followed that up last week by breaking with precedent to attend a court hearing in person with Attorney General Pam Bondi – whom, it subsequently emerged, he had fired en route – at which Solicitor General D John Sauer sought to persuade the justices to override protections enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, about which they appeared highly skeptical.

On Life, Liberty and Levin, the show to which Trump alluded, the host had argued that there is no such thing as birthright citizenship for the children of immigrants who are present in the U.S. illegally, echoing the revisionist, Trumpian point of view.

Trump visited the court in person last week to watch Solicitor General D John Sauer deliver oral arguments against birthright citizenship (AP)

Levin is a zealous supporter of the president’s war in Iran and Trump recently leapt to his defense when he became embroiled in a nasty exchange of deeply personal insults with fellow MAGA pundit Megyn Kelly as part of a dispute over the airstrikes.

Trump’s Sunday message followed his reposting another Fox clip on his platform earlier in the day in which the network’s anchor Will Cain claimed that 320,000 babies were born to “unauthorized or legal temporary migrant mothers” in the U.S. in 2023.

Cain claimed the figure accounted for 9 percent of all births on American soil that year and went on to criticize Chief Justice John Roberts for rejecting the administration’s position by saying: “It’s a new world, but it’s the same Constitution.”

The president also upped another user’s post presenting a video clip purporting to show Muslim shoppers at a mall in Minnesota with the comment: “85 percent of these people are on welfare btw.” The poster cited no evidence to support their claim.

All of which came after Trump’s explosive threat against Iran in which he told Tehran its bridges and power plants would be heavily bombed if it failed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz before the arrival of his latest deadline late Tuesday.

“Open the F***in’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell,” Trump raged.

Among those rebuking the president for his message were House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, and former Georgia Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.

“Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness,” Greene wrote on X (Twitter).

“I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit.”

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