Things on “The Five” went their predictable way in the wake of President Donald Trump’s Inauguration. Jessica Tarlov was left utterly speechless after she was obliterated by fellow “The Five” personality Greg Gutfeld when she tried taking Trump to task over his day one executive order that got rid of birthright citizenship.
As background, Trump’s executive order, called Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship, provides, “But the Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Consistent with this understanding, the Congress has further specified through legislation that “a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” is a national and citizen of the United States at birth, 8 U.S.C. 1401, generally mirroring the Fourteenth Amendment’s text.”
It continues, “Among the categories of individuals born in the United States and not subject to the jurisdiction thereof, the privilege of United States citizenship does not automatically extend to persons born in the United States: (1) when that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or (2) when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States at the time of said person’s birth was lawful but temporary (such as, but not limited to, visiting the United States under the auspices of the Visa Waiver Program or visiting on a student, work, or tourist visa) and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth.”
As could be expected, it has faced suits from liberal states that contend it is in direct violation of the 14th Amendment. In any case, Gutfeld defended it, saying, while contrasting Trump’s decision with that of Biden to practically open the southern border, “Americans voted for it, that’s the difference.” He added, “I’m just telling you the reality.”
Tarlov took the opportunity to attack Gutfeld’s point, pressing him on what exactly it was that people, including himself, voted for as applied to ending birthright citizenship and taking on the fight over that immigration issue. Namely, she asked him if he “voted to revoke birthright citizenship” for immigrants “who are here legally.”
Then, as Gufeld torched her for not seeming to actually understand what “here legally” meant, Tarlov told him, “I think when Donald Trump was talking about it and disparaging people over here, he was talking about undocumented people who come and drop their anchor babies. He wasn’t talking about people who are students here, people who are on H1-B visas…”
Gutfeld wasn’t having it. So, he cut in as Tarlov started talking about the H-1B visa issue, which she was probably wrong on, at least in terms of voter intent, as recent debates have shown MAGA voters quite dislike that program. In any case, Gutfeld, cutting in, said, “You’re always going to choose this weird exception! The fact is the system is being gamed.”
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He then added, noting that it was, quite in contrast to what she said, a whole of society problem against which MAGA voters voted. He said, “The fact is, Americans voted for Donald Trump because they saw these systems, these institutions, being gamed. The asylum issue, the birthright citizenship issue, the Title IX issue. Every single part of society was being gamed by the left, and finally, Americans got pushed too far.”
After Gutfeld was done with his lengthy tirade about the state of things in America, one which began with that immigration issue but soon expanded to the gaming of society generally by the left, Tarlov was left speechless, and she seemingly gave up on the argument, as it was Jesse Watters who chimed in to move on. Watch that spat here:
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video