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Trump rips Supreme Court over birthright citizenship, tariffs

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by Ashleigh Fields - 04/06/26 6:03 PM ET

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President Trump on Monday said the Supreme Court just “doesn’t seem to care” about the country after its ruling against his tariffs, and the considerable doubts many of the justices showed toward striking down birthright citizenship.

“It’s too bad that the Supreme Court can’t watch and study the Mark Levin Show tonight on the Birthright Citizenship Scam,” Trump wrote in a Monday Truth Social post, referring to the conservative pundit who hosts a radio show and a weekly program on Fox News.

“If they saw it they would never allow that money making HOAX to continue,” Trump said.

Trump said the justices should use their powers for the good of the country.

“They failed miserably on Tariffs, needlessly costing the USA Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in potential rebates for the benefit haters and scammers,” the president wrote.

“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,” he concluded, seemingly pleading with the justices to not strike down his executive order on birthright citizenship.

Last year, Trump issued an executive order attempting to block the children of immigrants and temporary visitors from obtaining birthright citizenship, hammering down his years-long argument that the 14th Amendment only applies to the offspring of a United States citizen or a lawful permanent resident.

Fox News host Mark Levin on Sunday said birthright citizenship was never mentioned in the Constitution.

“I’ve looked at the invisible ink. I can’t find it. Birthright citizenship. And yet, last week, there was a big argument in front of the Supreme Court and the justices, a couple of them were really wise, but most of them were like, kind of strange, getting into policy and politics and quirky examples and things of that sort,” he said during Fox News’s “Life, Liberty and Levin” show.

“So I thought I’d bring us back down to earth and deal with this, because sometimes lawyers, particularly lawyers in black robes who think they’re really smart, they get carried away with themselves,” he added.

Levin also argued the authors of the 14th Amendment could not have meant to grant citizenship at birth to the children of immigrants without legal status, because there were no restrictions on immigration in 1868.

However, for 125 years, the country has interpreted the 14th Amendment as the law of the land, granting citizenship to all persons born on its soil.

The Supreme Court heard arguments over Trump’s order last week. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked if mothers would be asked to produce documentation at the hospital while Justice Neil Gorsuch asked how Native Americans would be categorized under the order.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer initially sounded unsure of the guidance for the latter issue.

Trump argues a decision striking down birthright citizenship as it stands would be a positive choice for the country.

The president urged the Supreme Court justices to “USE THEIR POWERS OF COMMON SENSE FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY” in his Monday social media post, urging them to reinterpret the 14th Amendment.

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