“China, India Or Some Other Hell-Hole…”: Trump Reposts Anti-India Rant Over Birthright Citizenship
Washington:
US President Donald Trump has reposted American political commentator and radio host Michael Savage’s podcast, where he referred to India, China and other nations as “hell-holes”. In his racist rant calling for changes in the United States’ birthright citizenship law, Savage alleged that people from the two Asian nations come to the US to “drop a baby in the ninth month”, and the law turns them into “instant” US citizens.
The Republican president also shared the transcript and video of Savage’s podcast ‘Savage Nation’, where he slammed the US Supreme Court’s arguments on birthright citizenship.
The radio host attacked the idea of automatic citizenship for children born in the US to non-citizens, calling for a national referendum instead of leaving it to the courts.
“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 trud world triumph, stepped on our flag, et cetera,” he wrote.
Salage 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the current system is being exploited through “birth tourism” and welfare abuse and argued that the US Constitution is outdated in the context of modern migration.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’s War Against Birthright Citizenship
Trump reported Savage’s racist rant on his Truth Social platform a day after he made false claims that “no country in the world” offers birthright citizenship other than the United States during an interview with CNBC.
In reality, about three dozen countries provide automatic citizenship to people born on their soil, including US neighbours Canada and Mexico and the majority of South American countries.
Trump has long called for ending birthright citizenship in the US. In January 2025 after taking over the Oval Office for the second term, Trump signed an executive order to stop automatically granting citizenship to those born in the US in specific scenarios.
Legal consensus, however, broadly holds that the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees birthright citizenship. The matter is being heard by the Supreme Court.
The US Supreme Court, earlier this month, heard arguments in the Trump vs Barbara case that challenges the Republican leader’s executive order.
Speaking about the upcoming ruling on the issue, Trump said, “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!”
