Ten days back Donald Trump called up Narendra Modi and in the course of the phone conversation told him “We all love you.”
On Thursday he was back to form, posing on Truth Social the claims of right wing radio talk show host Michael Savage, that referred to India and China in unprintable and racist terms.
“A baby here becomes an instant citizen, and then they bring in their entire family from China, or India, or some other hell-hole on the planet,” he wrote in the letter.
The letter also describes Indian and Chinese immigrants as “gangsters with laptops” who have “stepped on our flag”.
“They’ve done more damage to this nation than all the mafia families put together. In my unhumble opinion. Gangsters with laptops. They’ve robbed us blind, treated us like second-class citizens, let the ‘turd world’ triumph, stepped on our flag, et cetera,” he wrote.
Savage was attacking the concept of birthright citizenship, that gave anybody born on US soil, US citizenship. He claimed he “used to be a great supporter of Indians in India” until, according to him, he realised the prospect of “white men” getting jobs at a high-tech company in California is ‘nil’.
“You have to be from India or China because almost all the internal mechanisms are set up to run by Indians and Chinese.”
Savage alleged the current system is being exploited through “birth tourism” and welfare abuse and argued that the US Constitution is outdated in the context of modern migration.
“The Constitution was written before air travel, needless to say before television, before the internet, before radio, and you could say, how relevant are some of these arguments when people are coming here by airplane in the ninth month of their pregnancy,” he wrote.
Trump posting those comments on Truth Social reflected his own fight against American birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court is hearing the Trump vs Barbara case where the president’s executive order denying citizenship to children born of temporary visa holders or illegal immigrants has been challenged.
Trump has made it clear what he thinks if the apex court rejects his executive order:
“If they rule against our Country on Birthright Citizenship, which they probably will, it will cost America massive amounts of money but, more importantly, it will cost America its DIGNITY!”
