New Delhi: United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday (April 23) shared a four-page transcript on Truth Social of comments made by an American political commentator about birthright citizenship in the US that described India and China as being among “hellhole” countries.The comments were made by Michael Savage, an author and political commentator, on US-based TV channel Newsmax after the US Supreme Court’s hearing on a case pertaining to birthright citizenship – something the Republican president has long sought to scrap.Birthright citizenship refers to the system of automatic citizenship for children born in the US, regardless of which country their parents belong to. In January 2025, Trump had signed an executive order to stop automatically granting citizenship to those born in the US in specific scenarios.However, legal consensus, broadly, is that the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees birthright citizenship. This is the matter being heard by the Supreme Court.The rant began by Savage criticising the US attorney as the one “in favour of flooding America with illegal aliens”, directed towards immigrants in the US. He said that the arguments should not be conducted “in the abstract of a courtroom” as the demand was “really not about law” but rather about public opinion.The US president published a four-page screed presumably from one of his political admirers to his Truth Social account. It is filled with anti-Chinese and anti-Indian animus. pic.twitter.com/ekuxBLDIyc— Christopher Clary (@clary_co) April 23, 2026Savage alleged people from the two Asian nations, which he specified as China and India, come to the US to “drop a baby in the ninth month on the doorstep”, and then the law turns them into “instant” US citizens.He argued that a referendum must be held to determine if birthright citizenship should continue.“A baby here becomes an instant citizen, and then they bring the entire family in from China or India or some other hellhole on the planet. You don’t have to go too far to see that. English is not spoken here anymore. That there’s almost no loyalty to this country amongst the immigrant class coming in today, which was not always the case,” he said.“There’s almost no loyalty to this country amongst the immigrant class coming in today, which was not always the case”, Savage said, adding that the immigrants are “not like the European Americans of today and their ancestors.”The US Constitution, he alleged, had been written before air travel, questioning “how relevant are some of these arguments when people are coming here by airplane in the ninth month of their pregnancy”. He said he “used to be a great supporter of Indians in India” until he “opened my eyes up to what’s going on here”, claiming that Indians were stealing American jobs, especially in the IT industry. White men “need not apply” for jobs in California, “never mind in high tech” as “you’re not getting a job at high tech in California” despite “what your qualifications are”, he alleged.“Your chances are nil. You have to be from India or China because almost all the internal mechanisms are set up to [be] run by Indians and Chinese.”He also called the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU, a non-profit civil rights organisation which has been actively litigating against Trump’s order a “gangster criminal organisation” and alleged that its attorney Cecillia Wang was “pushing to destroy our national identity, turn us into a colony of China, but it’s not limited to China, it’s also India”.Donald Trump has been trying to scrap birthright citizenship for US-born children of non-citizens and undocumented immigrants since his first term as the US president in his attempt to dramatically reshape immigration policies.In fact, his rhetoric against undocumented immigrants was a central plank of his presidency. Many other Republicans have been critical of the attempt.Three days after Trump signed the controversial order, a US court temporarily blocked it and described it as “blatantly unconstitutional”.On April 1, this year, Trump became the first sitting US president to attend a hearing on the case in the Supreme Court. After the hearing that day, he had taken to Truth Social to say: “We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow “Birthright” Citizenship!”