Saturday, July 12, 2025

They weren't kidding

When they said Trump would be coming for naturally born, white, American citizens next.


Think about it all you want, asshole.  You can't do it.

To some extent, the irrepressibly catty president of the United States is just barfing his feelings onto the internet. It is highly unlikely O’Donnell will face the loss of her citizenship and basic rights, even during this exceedingly lawless administration. And yet Trump’s threat to a comedian he’s long despised is not happening in a vacuum, in the same way that his threat to criminally investigate Bruce Springsteen, because the rock star said something Trump didn’t like, comes as Trump’s government is, in fact, criminally investigating Trump’s enemies only because they made the president mad. These are all different words in the same sentence in the exact same authoritarian tome[, revealing a commander in chief with nothing but contempt for the First Amendment, baseline constitutional values, and his own people.].

Trump’s Justice Department has explicitly stated how serious the administration is about prioritizing a large denaturalization push as part of Trump’s broader immigration crackdowns. Privately, Trump has repeatedly told lawyers and others in his second administration that when it comes to certain people he’d want to see lose their citizenship and then be shipped overseas for supposedly “national security” or “crime”-related reasons, he does not see a meaningful distinction between naturalized citizens and those who were born in the U.S.

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O’Donnell moved to Ireland earlier this year after her Los Angeles home was destroyed by wildfires. She has said she would consider returning to the U.S. once “it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America.”

  Rolling Stone
O'Donnell is also a member of the LGBTQ community, which is losing rights in Trumpland.
Trump recently suggested he could attempt to denaturalize Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist New York assemblyman and New York City’s Democratic mayoral nominee. Mamdani, who was born in Uganda, came to the U.S. as a child and has been a naturalized citizen in 2018.

“A lot of people are saying he’s here illegally,” Trump claimed. “We’re going to look at everything.”

It’s worth noting that Trump’s wife, Melania, is a naturalized citizen. She gained her U.S. citizenship after they were married.
So, it's a good thing he gets to be the one to choose who gets denaturalized.
And Trump believes he can decide, with a stroke of a pen, who qualifies for citizenship. Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order, issued on Inauguration Day, attempts to put an end to America’s promise to extend citizenship to all people born in this country, including the children of immigrants.

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Trump’s order was quickly blocked by several judges, and has already gone to the Supreme Court. The court’s conservative justices ignored the merits of the case, however, giving Trump a procedural win blocking lower federal courts from issuing nationwide injunctions.

The fight continues. A federal judge in New Hampshire blocked Trump from enforcing the birthright citizenship order on Thursday, while allowing a class-action challenge to the order to proceed.

Side note:  He was especially orange yesterday.

This is a picture from AP today.  Surely they didn't doctor it to increase the orange on his face.  Look at it near the ears.  

Rotisserie chicken.


Pretty obvious also in the Getty image in the Rolling Stone article.


The picture of health, vitality and decorum.

UPDATE 05:28 pm:






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