In what may well be a first for a chief executive, President Donald Trump announced his plans concerning the Supreme Court case on birthright citizenship.
Tuesday at the White House, the president fielded questions from the press after signing an executive order pertaining to mail-in voting. When asked about Wednesday’s scheduled oral arguments before the high court regarding a previous executive order being challenged, Trump told Fox News’ Peter Doocy, “And I’m going.”
“You’re gonna go to the Supreme Court tomorrow!?” the White House correspondent asked, “And just sit there and listen?”
“I do believe,” continued the president, “because I have listened to this argument for so long. This is not about Chinese billionaires or billionaires from other countries who all of a sudden have 75 children, or 59 children in one case, or 10 children becoming American citizens. This was about slaves. And if you take a look, slaves, we’re talking about slaves from the Civil War.”
.@POTUS on birthright citizenship: “It had to do with the babies of slaves… it didn’t have to do with the protection of multi-millionaires and billionaires wanting to have their children get American citizenship.” pic.twitter.com/X44N8tyw1X
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 31, 2026
At the time of this post, the president’s schedule lists him as slated for attendance during oral arguments on Wednesday morning, as the Supreme Court will be hearing the case of Trump v. Barbara.
On his first day back in the Oval Office in 2025, a bevy of executive orders from Trump included one titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship” aimed at clarifying the intent of the Fourteenth Amendment, eliminating its use as support for birthright citizenship of tourists and illegal aliens, in part restoring “the original meaning of the Citizenship Clause.”
Where it concerned the president’s remarks about wealthy foreigners, the Wall Street Journal reported one example in December, highlighting Chinese billionaire Xu Bo, who is said to have fathered through surrogacy more than 100 children born in the United States.
Chinese billionaire tried to build US-born baby empire as overseas elites turn to American surrogates https://t.co/qUekJ1HfCk
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) December 16, 2025
“It is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. It’s been so badly handled by legal people over the years. If you look at the original birthright citizenship papers, they all happened right after the Civil War. The reason was it had to do with the babies of slaves,” the president continued from the White House. “… our country is being scammed. We’re getting all of these people.”
“People are making a living, a big living, getting hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars from bringing people in and saying, ‘Congratulations, your whole family is going to be a citizen of the United States of America,” he went on as some instances include payments of up to $200,000 for a single child to be born in the United States. “That’s not what it was for. It wasn’t for billionaires bringing people in or family, and it was for the children of slaves.”
According to the Supreme Court Historical Society and the court itself, no official records detail a sitting president attending any oral arguments, let alone in a case about one of their own executive orders. While there will be no video of the proceeding, an audio stream can be heard live and on demand following the arguments.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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