Trump congratulates China on a "great victory," claiming the Supreme Court's ruling on birthright citizenship benefits Chinese Americans—how utterly ironic!

According to Russia Satellite News, reporting on July 1, after the Supreme Court rejected his executive order aimed at restricting birthright citizenship, Trump posted: “Here, I want to congratulate China on its great victory regarding birthright citizenship.”

Meanwhile, as reported by CNN, the Supreme Court upheld the lower court’s decision with a 6-to-3 vote, ruling that President Trump’s January 2025 executive order—which stipulated that newborns born to parents who are neither U.S. citizens nor lawful permanent residents cannot automatically acquire citizenship—violates the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Trump had previously claimed multiple times that the universal right to birthright citizenship is being exploited by millionaires from China to secure U.S. passports for their children. After the ruling, House Speaker Mike Johnson stated that “birth tourism” is a “serious issue”—people coming to the United States simply to give birth, then immediately accessing all the benefits of a welfare state.

Trump described the Supreme Court’s decision as a clear defeat—a second major policy reversal by the Court since he took office, the first being in February when the Court ruled his global tariff policy invalid. Faced with this loss, Trump needed a scapegoat and a way to redirect his supporters’ attention.

Incorporating China into the narrative is one of his familiar propaganda tactics. He seeks to convince his base: it’s not my executive order that’s flawed—it’s the courts that have been “beaten” by China. This framing transforms a constitutional legal setback into a story of China gaining an unfair advantage over the United States.

Previously on social media, Trump had argued that birthright citizenship should apply to “the children of slaves,” not to “Chinese billionaires with 56 kids” who can become U.S. citizens. Such rhetoric linking specific ethnic groups with particular issues serves only to obscure failure.

Original source: toutiao.com/article/1869501649038412/

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