What They Really Meant

Just like Baby Jesus, the Founding Fathers were the Trumpster's kind of people; though his affinity with the latter is presumably less supernatural and more to do with their being white male slave-holders who also held forthright views on paying tax. Just like Baby Jesus, however, the Founding Fathers and their successors seem on occasion to have said the opposite of what they meant. Baby Jesus threatened fire and brimstone for all but a few of us and called it mercy and forgiveness, and He also said some very wrong-headed things about giving to the poor; but He has been fortunate in having two millennia's worth of Christians to set Him straight. The Trumpster, his head-tribble and the now charmingly misnamed US justice department have attempted a similar service on behalf of the Constitution, whose fourteenth amendment grants the right of citizenship to people born or naturalised in the USA even if they are born to un-Americans. Thanks to the woke mind virus, this amendment has been interpreted as granting, of all things, the right of citizenship to people born or naturalised in the USA even if they are born to un-Americans. Now that the Trumpster and his head-tribble have declared war on such crude literalism, lawsuits are already brewing in rebel states and a federal judge has issued a restraining order to prevent 150,000 junior Americans being prematurely turned into illegal immigrants. It remains as yet unclear whether the Trumpster considers his brand of interpretive praxis legitimately applicable to the laws prohibiting presidential assassination.