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BumRushDaShow

(169,746 posts)
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 04:22 PM Monday

'BABIES OF SLAVES!' Trump Drops Birthright Citizenship Rant Before 7AM on Monday

Source: MEDIAite

Mar 30th, 2026, 12:27 pm


President Donald Trump dropped a birthright citizenship rant before 7 a.m. on Monday morning in which he argued that the provision was meant to protect the “BABIES OF SLAVES!”

“Birthright Citizenship is not about rich people from China, and the rest of the World, who want their children, and hundreds of thousands more, FOR PAY, to ridiculously become citizens of the United States of America,” Trump wrote. “It is about the BABIES OF SLAVES!”.

Trump continued:

We are the only Country in the World that dignifies this subject with even discussion. Look at the dates of this long ago legislation – THE EXACT END OF THE CIVIL WAR! The World is getting rich selling citizenships to our Country, while at the same time laughing at how STUPID our U.S. Court System has become (TARIFFS!). “Dumb Judges and Justices will not a great Country make!”


The Civil War ended in 1865, and birthright citizenship is traced to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, which guaranteed certain rights for African Americans. “Importantly, it rectified the 1857 Dred Scott decision which ruled that the U.S. Constitution did not extend citizenship to people of African descent,” according to the American Immigration Council.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/babies-of-slaves-trump-drops-wild-birthright-citizenship-rant-before-7am-on-monday/



NONE of his family of "illegals" were here when that happened (my ancestors were very much here however).
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'BABIES OF SLAVES!' Trump Drops Birthright Citizenship Rant Before 7AM on Monday (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Monday OP
Baby shark up that Orange Hog's pizzle. SoFlaBro Monday #1
... BumRushDaShow Monday #3
I'd pay good money to watch that. erronis Monday #5
"We're going to need a smaller shark!" SeattleVet Monday #10
Hey............ traitor my family history goes all the way back to the early 1700's in this country........... turbinetree Monday #2
Quiet Piggy. Talitha Monday #4
THIS ... KPN Monday #6
Deport Trump. SergeStorms Monday #9
Trump, Republicans, and Stephen Miller popsdenver Monday #7
Trump is selling citizenships. Mblaze Monday #8
Wanna be Russian anchor babies live in Trump properties until their "birth-day" maspaha Monday #11
That's a lie cannabis_flower Monday #12
It isn't that way in Mexico LeftInTX Monday #13
Shame on you Donald for talking about Barron that way!! AZ8theist Yesterday #14
Ohhh... I see. He POSTED a rant. QueerDuck Yesterday #15
Um lonely bird Yesterday #16
So we think the Congress of 1866 was illiterate, Bluetus Yesterday #17
"We are to believe they couldn't understand what the words, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States" BumRushDaShow Yesterday #20
Trump isn't denying citizenship to "slave children" Bluetus Yesterday #21
And that is HIS interpretation BumRushDaShow Yesterday #22
The Senate arrived at the final language of the Citizenship Clause only after a robust debate about the implications..." pat_k 21 hrs ago #24
My first American ancestor arrived in Virginia in 1640. Aristus Yesterday #18
Trump knows about enslavement. He does know about that. yardwork Yesterday #19
NYTimes: Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Was Only for the Children of Slaves. He's Wrong. pat_k 21 hrs ago #23
The 1924 Indian Citizenship Act shows the limits of the everyone born interpretation. Ilikepurple 18 hrs ago #27
The man behind Donald Trump's push to end birthright citizenship (suspended attorney John Eastman) LetMyPeopleVote 20 hrs ago #25
Okay, lemme get this straight... GiqueCee 19 hrs ago #26

turbinetree

(27,546 posts)
2. Hey............ traitor my family history goes all the way back to the early 1700's in this country...........
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 04:46 PM
Monday

in fact some of them fought against a fucking king and we won.............also had relatives that fought for the North against traitors to the Constitution and we won............or did you miss that subject matter while in your preppy school ..............or did you cheat on the finals.............I think you cheated............ your reality is based on lies..........

KPN

(17,376 posts)
6. THIS ...
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 06:40 PM
Monday
“ NONE of his family of "illegals" were here when that happened (my ancestors were very much here however).”

SergeStorms

(20,591 posts)
9. Deport Trump.
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 07:29 PM
Monday

The entire lot ot Drumphs, to be precise. Unless his grandfather was a slave, of course. 😉

popsdenver

(2,301 posts)
7. Trump, Republicans, and Stephen Miller
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 07:04 PM
Monday

always have to drive the racist angle in everything they do to rally their un-educated, racist, MAGAot Voters.....

Notice how they NEVER bring up Melania and her path to citizenship for her and her parents being totally illegal?????????
And having an "Anchor" child to cement her place here in the U.S.

maspaha

(745 posts)
11. Wanna be Russian anchor babies live in Trump properties until their "birth-day"
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 09:14 PM
Monday

The hypocrisy never stops

cannabis_flower

(3,932 posts)
12. That's a lie
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 11:07 PM
Monday

Countries with Unrestricted Birthright Citizenship


The following countries generally grant automatic citizenship at birth to children of foreign nationals:
Region Countries
North America Canada, Mexico, United States
Central America Belize, Costa Rica (requires registration), El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
South America Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile (opt-in/out), Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru (registration at 18), Uruguay, Venezuela
Caribbean Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent
and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago
Other Regions Africa: Lesotho, Tanzania, Chad (opt-in at 18)
Asia: Pakistan
Oceania: Fiji, Tuvalu

LeftInTX

(34,286 posts)
13. It isn't that way in Mexico
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 11:47 PM
Monday

I know someone who had a baby there. They are a US couple. She has residency in MX. I don't believe they're married. They had to get proof from the US which took quite awhile. They needed to trace back to grandparents etc.
Then they had to prove that the parents "would not be a charge".

QueerDuck

(1,706 posts)
15. Ohhh... I see. He POSTED a rant.
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 07:25 AM
Yesterday

Hey, Mediaite! Is it too much to ask for some clarity in headlines? A quick read (on a word-wrapped headline) makes it sound like he abandoned the idea (dropped it). In reality, he just hit the "send" button.

Pardon my pedantry... but words actually matter, even if Mediaite thinks "drops" sounds cooler than "posts." Headline writers are nothing if not vague and ambiguous, are they?

Oh well.

Bluetus

(2,795 posts)
17. So we think the Congress of 1866 was illiterate,
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 10:20 AM
Yesterday

as well as the legislatures of the 28 states that ratified it? We are to believe they couldn't understand what the words, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States ..." mean? Are we to believe this was never debated?

If Trump doesn't like the Constitution, then there are ways to add amendments.

BumRushDaShow

(169,746 posts)
20. "We are to believe they couldn't understand what the words, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States"
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 12:23 PM
Yesterday

THEY get to define who "persons" are. Right before that went into effect, some were considered 3/5 of a person.

Bluetus

(2,795 posts)
21. Trump isn't denying citizenship to "slave children"
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 12:27 PM
Yesterday

Just the opposite. He is saying "slave children" are the only ones entitled to birthright citizenship.

BumRushDaShow

(169,746 posts)
22. And that is HIS interpretation
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 01:46 PM
Yesterday

But it will be up to the SCOTUS to define that and given their past historical flip-flops, who knows how they will rule.

pat_k

(13,372 posts)
24. The Senate arrived at the final language of the Citizenship Clause only after a robust debate about the implications..."
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 04:46 PM
21 hrs ago

Aristus

(72,187 posts)
18. My first American ancestor arrived in Virginia in 1640.
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 10:57 AM
Yesterday

Over two hundred years before Dumpy's slimy pimp of a grandfather oozed his way onto these shores.

pat_k

(13,372 posts)
23. NYTimes: Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Was Only for the Children of Slaves. He's Wrong.
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 04:36 PM
21 hrs ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/opinion/bi

...
The court will probably also respond to the first words of the president’s March 19 brief, which asserts that “The ‘main object’ of the Citizenship Clause was to grant citizenship to freed slaves and their children.” That is a polite version of a more informal claim he has made elsewhere, that birthright citizenship was intended only for “the babies of slaves.”

However the court decides, history shows that Mr. Trump is wrong.

Yes, the 14th Amendment affirmed the citizenship of all Black Americans, most of whom were either newly freed or descended from people who had been enslaved. However, Mr. Trump’s extremely narrow interpretation disregards the historical record. The Senate arrived at the final language of the Citizenship Clause only after a robust debate about the implications of writing birthright citizenship into the Constitution.

The 39th Congress took up the citizenship question amid a broader effort to set the nation on a new, more inclusive course after the Civil War. At the end of 1865, it established a Joint Committee on Reconstruction, which began drafting the 14th Amendment.
...
The House passed a version of the amendment that did not include the now familiar Citizenship Clause. In the Senate, however, Jacob Howard, Republican of Michigan, argued that such a clause was needed. He noted the absence of a concrete definition of citizenship — and who was entitled to it — in the existing Constitution: “It is not, perhaps, very easy to define with accuracy what is meant by the expression ‘citizen of the United States,’ although that expression occurs twice in the Constitution.”

During another round of deliberations on the wording of the amendment, Howard returned to the issue of citizenship, asserting that the amendment needed to clear the matter up. He proposed the wording that was the basis for the Citizenship Clause, which, he said, was “simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already,” that “every person born within the limits of the United States and subject to their jurisdiction is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen.”

Senator Edgar Cowan of Pennsylvania was incredulous that his colleagues intended to extend citizenship so broadly. He asked, “Is it proposed that the people of California are to remain quiescent while they are overrun by a flood of immigration of the Mongol race?”

Cowan continued with a statement that presaged the blood-and-soil populism that is part of today’s political debates, suggesting that if the children of Chinese immigrants, for example, desire the rights of a citizen, they should look to China, not the United States: “If I desire the exercise of my rights I ought to go to my own people, the people of my own blood and lineage.” Cowan prompted Senator John Conness of California to weigh in. Conness, who had himself emigrated from Ireland, affirmed the inclusive principle generally supported by Republicans of that era: “I voted for the proposition to declare that the children of all parentage whatever, born in California, should be regarded and treated as citizens of the United States.”
...
Later in the debate, Senator Thomas Hendricks, a Democrat from Indiana, argued that the very nature of American citizenship would be degraded if it were extended to “the Negroes, the coolies and the Indians.” As crudely as that sentiment might strike us today, it did serve to illustrate clearly that what was up for debate was not citizenship for only Black Americans but also for people of many different ethnicities and origins.

In 1866, the amendment was approved by both houses of Congress. It was ratified by the states in
1868.


Clearly, Trumpublicans, White Supremacists, Christian Nationalists, and others of similar immoral and just plain bad character wish the despicable beliefs of the likes of Senator Thomas Hendricks had prevailed and held firm.

They just cannot accept that this nation has ultimately -- and I believe will continue to -- put the stake in the heart of those disgusting "values" every single time they gain ground.


Ilikepurple

(672 posts)
27. The 1924 Indian Citizenship Act shows the limits of the everyone born interpretation.
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 08:08 PM
18 hrs ago

The “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” qualifier was placed to exclude tribal Indians who were seen as primarily subject to the jurisdiction of their respective tribes. I agree that it was most likely worded to exclude only tribal Indians, but they did choose this wording instead of the “excluding Indians not taxed” language of section 2 of the amendment, which means it might have been intended to be broader, narrower, or more ambiguous. Legislative records are persuasive but not controlling in Constitutional law, partially because it’s pretty hard to pin down the precise intent from the debates. If the administration can win the argument that some babies born here are primarily under the jurisdiction of the non-citizen mother’s sovereign nation as is their mother, they might unfortunately get a foot in the door. I think it’s very much a long shot, but I also think that we cannot wholly rely on precedential interpretations for what we think is a an easy plain language or legislative record understanding of an act of Congress. I believe the legal arguments put forth by TheNYT and others are undeniably strong, but what I believe is not determinative. That decision will be made by at least 5 of the members of the USSC.

LetMyPeopleVote

(179,847 posts)
25. The man behind Donald Trump's push to end birthright citizenship (suspended attorney John Eastman)
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 06:11 PM
20 hrs ago

John Eastman has been advancing his fringe interpretation of the 14th Amendment for decades.

The man behind Donald Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) 2026-03-31T14:08:51.193Z

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/31/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-john-eastman-00851127

Long before John Eastman helped devise Donald Trump’s bid to overturn the 2020 election, he had another pet cause: ending birthright citizenship.....

Yet, when Trump signed his order on the subject last year, he made no mention of the former law school dean and Supreme Court clerk’s long advocacy for the cause. And while the Justice Department’s public briefs closely track Eastman’s arguments, they don’t cite his writings or acknowledge his role as the theory’s leading evangelist.

“This is his issue,” said Linda Chavez, a longtime conservative activist and senior Reagan White House official who has sparred publicly with Eastman on the subject. “I’ve known John forever and this has been a bee in his bonnet for as long as I’ve known him.”....

Eastman has been advancing his fringe interpretation of the 14th Amendment since 2005, racking up more than 100 op-eds, interviews, law review articles, debates, speeches and legislative hearings.....

And Eastman is still battling the fallout from the 2020 election. He helped concoct the theory that Trump could cling to power by having Vice President Mike Pence refuse to count some states’ electoral votes. That didn’t persuade Pence, but did score Eastman a speaking role at Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021 rally on the Ellipse, where Eastman aired unproven claims of election fraud.

He subsequently lost his professorship at Chapman University and has been suspended from practicing law in California. He’s appealing a decision calling for his permanent disbarment in that state.

Eastman needs to be finally disbarred. This asshole is a disgrace to the legal profession.

GiqueCee

(4,254 posts)
26. Okay, lemme get this straight...
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 06:26 PM
19 hrs ago

... Section 1, Clause 1 of the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to "All persons born or naturalized in the United States". the Orange Shitgibbon has ZERO authority to unilaterally alter the Constitution in any way shape of form, and even the SCOTUS has some pretty high hurdles to contend with before they can declare an Amendment null and void, no matter how much ketchup stains the walls of the White House.
And Trump's arguments , "ABOUT THE BABIES OF SLAVES!" is about as blatantly racist as anything we've seen from a president since Andrew Johnson. Why is this evil fuck not in prison, or at least on an involuntary hold in a psych ward for the criminally insane?

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