On June 30, the Supreme Court ruled against Donald Trump’s executive order that would have stripped citizenship from children born in the U.S. to people there illegally, reaffirming the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship guarantee. Social media users reac
The Supreme Court’s decision landed on a Tuesday, June 30, with the kind of finality that makes it hard to move the conversation anywhere else: Donald Trump’s bid to dismantle birthright citizenship was rejected.
The proposal at the center of the case said that children born to immigrants in the United States are not American citizens. That argument ran straight into the 14th Amendment, which the ruling reaffirmed. In the Court’s words. the amendment states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States. and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”.
The fight wasn’t just legal theory. The 14th Amendment was created in part to establish formally enslaved people as citizens, and the Court’s decision kept that guarantee intact—shutting down Trump’s executive order challenging it.
In the ruling, the Court rejected Trump’s executive order that challenged the 14th Amendment. The order had declared that children born to people in the country illegally are not U.S. citizens.
Roomies didn’t hold back once the news hit Instagram.
User @miyadior wrote, “Oh look, the government decided to show up to work today.”
User @the_ghanaian_alpha said, “This should never even been in the Supreme Court to begin with The CONSTITUTION granted birthright citizenship. We are living a time of madness.”
User @_suckafreesi added, “Right because America’s colonizers weren’t even born on U.S soil and still claimed it. So yeah.”
User @itsgemaaaduhhh_ responded, “Lmfao he’s going to stroke out ! Please keep making him mad.”
The birthright decision also landed while Trump was already in the headlines for his latest public fixation on Barack Obama. Obama recently spoke on the podcast ‘All the Smoke. ’ where host Matt Barnes asked about Trump’s fascination and whether he ever felt like cussing him out over repeated racist tirades.
Obama answered: “I mean… the thing about it is, look,” adding, “You, you’ve got to ask him what it is that, that… the obsession…. I obviously have a room in his head. A suite in his head.”
He went on to say that during his two presidencies, he didn’t have time to be bothered by predecessors. “Look. first of all. when I was president. the last thing I had time to dowas worry about what somebody said or what my predecessor did. ” Obama said. “They’re gone. I’ve got work to do… Look. kind of worrying about that is a strange thing to me. It shows me somebody who’s not focused on the American people and the job they’re supposed to do.”.
The Supreme Court’s ruling stops Trump’s executive order in its tracks—while social media keeps turning the moment into something more personal, sharper, and harder to ignore.
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