Trump Action Archive

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• Trump reposts racist segment calling for ban on birthright citizenship — Trump reposted on Truth Social a transcript of a racist segment from right-wing Newsmax that referred to China and India as "hellhole[s]" and immigrants from those countries as "gangsters with laptops" who have "stepped on our flag." The segment called for a national referendum on banning birthright citizenship rather than leaving the matter to the Supreme Court.

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• DHS uses SAVE tool to identify noncitizen voters — DHS has been using an electronic tool called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE), previously used to check eligibility for public benefits, to find noncitizen voters in a database made up of confidential data from different government agencies. That information includes confidential data from the Social Security Administration, accessed by the Department of Government Efficiency. Republican secretaries of state in twenty-seven states have agreed to use SAVE to check their voter rolls.
• SAVE system makes persistent errors identifying naturalized citizens — The SAVE system makes "persistent mistakes," frequently assessing naturalized citizens as noncitizens. The system automatically refers those individuals to DHS for possible criminal investigation, and in certain states, individuals have had to prove their citizenship to be reinstated as voters. County clerk Brianna Lennon of Boone County, Missouri, stated the system is "not ready for prime time" and she will not risk the security and constitutional rights of voters for bad data.
• ProPublica reported federal voter-verification tool misidentifies citizens as noncitizens — ProPublica reported that a federal tool designed to identify noncitizens on voter rolls is consistently and incorrectly marking U.S. citizens as noncitizens, particularly those born outside the United States. This tool is the same system that states would be required to use under the GOP's SAVE America Act, which passed the House this week. Research from Kansas showed that when a similar version was implemented, approximately 40 ineligible voters were purged while 31,000 legal citizens were prevented from registering—a ratio of 775 legal voters lost for every 1 ineligible voter.

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• Trump posted offensive social media message threatening citizenship stripping on Thanksgiving — On Thanksgiving at midnight, President Trump posted on his social media account threatening to strip citizenship from naturalized immigrants, used an offensive slur to describe Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and ended with a message excluding those who "hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for." The post raised concerns among officials and medical experts about the president's mental acuity and fitness for office.
• Trump posts social media screeds blaming immigrants for National Guard shooting — Following the November 26 shooting of two West Virginia National Guard members stationed in Washington, D.C., by Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, Trump's social media account posted screeds against immigrants using the incident as justification. Lakanwal, who worked for the CIA in Afghanistan, came to the U.S. in 2021 as part of the post-withdrawal evacuation and was granted asylum earlier in 2025. Trump blamed "Joe Biden and his Thugs" for the evacuation, falsely claiming "hundreds of thousands of people poured into our Country totally unvetted and unchecked," disregarding Trump's own role in the 2020 Doha Agreement and his administration's vetting of Lakanwal.
• Trump posted Thanksgiving message attacking Minnesota and Congresswoman Omar — Trump posted a Thanksgiving message at 11:27 PM that attacked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as "seriously retarded," claimed Somali refugees are "completely taking over" Minnesota, and attacked Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with racist and Islamophobic language, including references to her hijab and false claims about her immigration status and family relationships.
• Trump made racist claims about Somali refugees in Minnesota — On Truth Social, Trump claimed "hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia" are "completely taking over" Minnesota, used a racial slur to describe Governor Tim Walz, and falsely claimed Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar "probably came into the U.S.A. illegally." The posts contained no factual basis and were part of a broader pattern of inflammatory rhetoric targeting immigrant communities.

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• Department of Homeland Security posted image of "American Progress" painting with caption evoking manifest destiny ideology — On July 23, the official X account of the Department of Homeland Security posted John Gast's 1872 oil painting "American Progress"—a canonical representation of manifest destiny depicting westward expansion, Indigenous displacement, and white settlement—with the caption "A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending." The post was interpreted by observers as the Trump administration's embrace of manifest destiny ideology and, more broadly, "blood and soil" citizenship doctrine that defines belonging by ancestry and racial continuity rather than civic principles.

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• Trump announces plan to end birthright citizenship via executive order — Following the Supreme Court's Trump v. CASA decision, President Trump announced to reporters his intention to use an executive order to end birthright citizenship, claiming the Fourteenth Amendment was based on a misinterpretation of law and rooted in a fabricated historical narrative about the Civil War ending in 1869 and a case filed on that exact day concerning "babies of slaves."