LARRY ELDER: The ‘Trump Is A Tyrant’ Critics Defended Biden’s ‘Imperial Presidency’

There must be a stronger word than hypocrisy to describe the media/Democrat reaction to President Donald Trump’s legitimate and commonsense interpretation of the 14th Amendment and “birthright citizenship.” Section 1 reads: “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.”

Trump rejects the widely accepted interpretation that the 14th Amendment grants immediate citizenship to any child born on American soil, even if the child’s parents are in the country illegally. Trump believes the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, was designed to confer citizenship on newly freed slaves.

In fact, Sen. Jacob Howard of Michigan, who introduced the amendment, said, “ will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States, but will include every other class of person.”

Trump’s opponents cry, “How dare Trump ‘unilaterally’ and by ‘executive order’ reinterpret the 14th Amendment?” Trump, they say, thinks he’s a king. He is “acting like a tyrant.”

The Supreme Court will have the final say and will almost certainly interpret the 14th Amendment in Trump’s favor.

Where were the “Trump is not a king” critics during the Obama and Biden presidencies?

In October 2010, President Barack Obama said he lacked the power to grant protected status to illegal aliens. “I am president. I am not king,” Obama said. “I can’t do these things just by myself.”

Two years later, during his 2012 reelection campaign, he proceeded to act like a king. He