Trump: US only country ‘stupid enough’ to allow birthright citizenship

President Trump fired off a short TruthSocial post shortly after oral arguments wrapped up for the birthright citizenship case at the Supreme Court, slamming the challenge to one of his Day 1 executive orders.

“We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship!” he wrote.

It was the only time he weighed in on the arguments the morning of a blockbuster case that saw several of the justices, including ones nominated by Trump during his first term, appear skeptical of the administration’s arguments over whether an executive order to limit birthright citizenship signed by Trump last year was constitutional.

Trump attended part of the oral arguments in person, marking a historic moment as a sitting president at the Supreme Court for arguments about one of his own policies. He stayed during roughly the first half in which the administration’s top lawyer, D. John Sauer, argued on his behalf.

The president sat through several key justices who appeared reluctant to upend the conventional understanding of birthright citizenship, which for more than a century has been that almost anyone born on U.S. soil is automatically a citizen. The Trump administration contends the longstanding principle has been misinterpreted. 

“The examples you give to support that strike me as very quirky,” Chief Justice John Roberts pressed the government. 

Roberts and the other justices did not acknowledge Trump, who sat in the front row of the public gallery that fills the back half of the courtroom. The president sat stone-faced for the majority of the time he was inside the courtroom.

A decision on Trump’s birthright citizenship order is expected by this summer. 

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