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On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed a new executive order banning birth tourism, among other types of what may be perceived as improper grants of birthright citizenship. The Elitist Media Evening News took exception to these orders, which come after the Supreme Court opinion striking down the previous birthright citizenship executive order.Watch as the CBS Evening News casts a shadow on the executive order, with Weijia Jiang playing the “without evidence” card on birth tourism: WATCH: @CBSEveningNews whines over Trump EO banning birth tourism. Weijia Jiang deals the “without evidence” cardMATT GUTMAN: Breaking news now from The White House. President Trump doubling down in his fight against birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court just weeks ago… pic.twitter.com/KW3cJnD1Il— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) August 7, 2026 CBS EVENING NEWS8/6/266:36 PMMATT GUTMAN: Breaking news now from The White House. President Trump doubling down in his fight against birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court just weeks ago struck down the president’s 2025 executive order denying U.S. citizenship to babies born to undocumented parents. Tonight, he signed two new orders. Our Weijia Jiang is at The White House. Weijia, so if the Supreme Court just struck down this measure, how does the administration plan to enforce it now?WEIJIA JIANG: Well, good evening to you, Matt. Tonight, legal experts are already questioning whether the administration can implement these orders after that Supreme Court decision in June. Today, President Trump called the ruling very unfortunate and said they have to make adjustments. The justices confirmed that the 14th amendment means everyone born in the United States is an American citizen at birth. Now, Trump wants to restrict automatic citizenship for certain categories of people, including babies born to parents with links to foreign embassies and anyone considered an alien enemy of the country. Another order targets what the administration calls birth tourists, those who allegedly obtain U.S. visas for the sole purpose of giving birth while here. Trump claimed hundreds of thousands take advantage of thousands take advantage of birth tourism, without providing data or evidence, Matt.GUTMAN: Weijia, thank you.Here’s the paragraph in the executive order that elicited the “without evidence” remark:Birth tourism operators use deceptive advertisements and inducements to entice foreign nationals to travel to the United States for the purpose of giving birth on American soil.  They promise citizenship; access to public benefits; and short-term stays in specialized facilities, hotels, or rentals, but often fail to deliver on these promises.  These operators coach their clients to misrepresent the purpose and duration of their travel to consular and border officials to obtain visas authorizing entry into the United States.  Failure to appropriately combat these schemes has resulted in thriving industries around the world that profit by enabling the evasion of American immigration laws to obtain citizenship and other immigration benefits for foreign visitors, and the exploitation of the women who travel here for purposes of giving birth.  Just because the administration didn’t cite specific instances of documented birth tourism in the executive order doesn’t mean that it didn’t happen. A 10-second Google search yielded this 2018 NBC article titled “Birth tourism brings Russian baby boom to Miami,” and this 2015 NBC article titled “Feds Raid California ‘Maternity Hotels’ for Birth Tourists.” To put a fine point on it:Southern California apartment complexes that doubled as “maternity hotels” for Chinese women who want made-in-America babies were raided early Tuesday, capping an unprecedented federal sting operation, officials said.NBC News was on the scene as Homeland Security agents swept into The Carlyle, a luxury property in Irvine, California, which housed pregnant women and new moms who allegedly forked over $40,000 to $80,000 to give birth in the United States.”I am doing this for the education of the next generation,” one of the women told NBC News.There is an overabundance of readily available evidence of the existence of birth tourism, which proves that it has been a problem for a long time. The use of the “without evidence” stratagem is intended to cast the birthright tourism claim as false.NBC took a different route, citing activist groups critical of the executive order: WATCH: @NBCNightlyNews whines over Trump EO banning birthright citizenship, closes report with a defiant ACLU quoteTOM LLAMAS: Staying in Washington, President Trump with a new push tonight to restrict birth right citizenship following his defeat at the Supreme Court. The… pic.twitter.com/ozgZiyKHVm— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) August 7, 2026 NBC NIGHTLY NEWS8/6/266:38 PMTOM LLAMAS: Staying in Washington, President Trump with a new push tonight to restrict birth right citizenship following his defeat at the Supreme Court. The president announcing a crackdown on birth tourism including denying Visas to pregnant women. Gabe Gutierrez is at the white house.GABE GUTIERREZ: Tonight, President Trump is trying a new way to restrict birthright citizenship and crack down on so-called birth tourism by denying visas to some pregnant women.DONALD TRUMP: Very big. Big crackdowns and this will give us the right to do it in a much more forceful manner.GUTIERREZ: In June, the Supreme Court narrowly shot down the president’s previous attempt to deny automatic citizenship to children of noncitizens born in the U.S., ruling the broad executive order he signed at the beginning of his second term was unconstitutional because it violated the Fourth Amendment.TRUMP: It was close- but a very, very unfortunate decision. So we’re making adjustments. Because it’s very unfair.GUTIERREZ: These new executive orders are more narrow, including applying to children born of foreign diplomatic staff working on behalf of another government while in the U.S., children who belong to federally declared terrorist groups, and children born of mothers who enter the U.S. solely for the purpose of having a child on U.S. soil, known as birth tourism.TRUMP: They’ve taken birthright citizenship and they’ve made a joke out of it. (VIDEO SWIPE) They’re buying their way in. And we’re not going to let it happen.GUTIERREZ: The White House calling it a “broken system” allowing foreigners access to U.S. government benefits.STEPHEN MILLER: If you’re telling a consular officer you’re here as a tourist, but your true purpose and intent is to go to a baby mill, give birth and try to mint an American citizen while you’re here, then you’re committing a fraud against the American government.GUTIERREZ: But tonight, LULAC responding the 14th amendment is not a policy preference.LLAMAS: And Gabe, tonight, we’re already hearing from potential legal challengers to the president’s actions?GUTIERREZ: Yes, Tom, several groups are looking through these executive orders tonight. The ACLU tells us no matter how many executive orders President Trump signs, birthright remains the law of the land. Tom?LLAMAS: Gabe Gutierrez for us.NBC’s approach was not to beclown itself with “without evidence”, but to delegitimize the executive order with activist quotes- closing out with a defiant quote from the ACLU. It was similar to CBS in that it didn’t address the substance of birth tourism. ABC may have come out of looking the best by simply filing no report at all. World News Tonight chose instead to fill that A-block time with Miss North Carolina USA getting stripped of her crown over unspecified “conduct over an extended period of time.” ABC may yet report this executive order, most likely doing so in a manner similar to their colleagues. That is to say, with disdain for any effort to enforce the borders of the United States of America and end the scourge of birth tourism.

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On Thursday’s Morning Joe, in continued reaction to far-left Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, the hosting crew of Willie Geist and Jonathan Lemire decided to defend El-Sayed from claims of communism and even socialism. They also showed great displeasure with President Trump’s call of communism as “The greatest threat to our country in its history” and invoked 9/11.In the opening of the morning show, the discussion of El-Sayed devolved into a talk of how “conservative media” has used the far-left victory.Geist said, “But as I mentioned, I mean, you can look at the front page of the New York Post, or you can look anywhere in conservative media right now. This is the candidate that they wanted in Michigan, but also nationally, so that they could make the claim that the Democrats, whether it’s here in New York City and the state of Michigan, potentially with the governor of Wisconsin, are making a turn far-left.” Thursday’s Morning Joe showed hated President Trump calling communism “the greatest threat” in the country’s history, including 9/11, after Abdul El-Sayed’s primary victory.Host Willie Geist first defended far-left candidates and said, “First of all, they’re not communists.… pic.twitter.com/zc1QXY4iHt— Nick (@nspin310) August 6, 2026 Lemire responded to Geist as he read a part of the New York Post subtext that Lemire read said, in part, “Dems nominate socialist radicals.” He then stated, “I mean, obviously not actually a socialist. As Ali pointed out, doesn’t actually consider himself part of the DSA.”Not actually a socialist, except for his want of Medicare for All and his campaigning with socialists like Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT).At the start of the next hour, the show decided to get upset at a Presidential attack on communism on the day of El-Sayed’s victory.In a clip from a Trump event in Las Vegas yesterday, the president mentioned the rise of far-left Democratic candidates and stated, “Communism is the greatest threat to our country in its history, including even World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, 9/11. I think it’s the greatest threat.” On Morning Joe, after Willie Geist said “conservative media” wanted Abdul El-Sayed to be the Democratic Michigan Senate nominee, Jonathan Lemire stated that El-Sayed was “obviously not actually a socialist” because he was not officially part of the DSA. pic.twitter.com/0ZxUWYqId0— Nick (@nspin310) August 6, 2026 Geist did not like the comments and said it was “worth pausing here” before he made sure to note, “First of all, they’re not communist or socialist. There’s a distinction there.”He then continued to show his hate of the 9/11 comment: “Just pause. The President of the United States said the election of a candidate to be the nominee in Michigan is worse than 9/11.”Lemire continued Geist’s displeasure: “It’s obscene. It’s obscene, and it’s inaccurate.”Geist followed by again: “But it is worth pausing, as Jon points out accurately, at the 25th anniversary of 9/11, that he thinks the election by voters of a certain kind of candidate in the state of Michigan is the biggest catastrophe in the history of the country.”Frequent Morning Joe guest Mike Barnicle then closed with a message to the president: “Mr. President, if you’re listening this morning, I dare you to come to New York City on September 11th, which is coming up, and repeat what you just said here in Manhattan, and you’ll realize that you were wrong.”Of course, Morning Joe did not mention how radical terrorist-sympathizer Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who previously said “America deserved 9/11,” campaigned actively with El-Sayed in Michigan. Additionally, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation acknowledges that Communism killed over 100 million people in the 20th century alone.The transcript is below. Click “expand”:MS NOW’s Morning JoeAugust 6, 20266:09:35 AM Eastern(…)WILLIE GIEST: But as I mentioned, I mean, you can look at the front page of the New York Post, or you can look anywhere in conservative media right now. This is the candidate that they wanted in Michigan, but also nationally, so that they could make the claim that the Democrats, whether it’s here in New York City and the state of Michigan, potentially with the governor of Wisconsin, are making a turn far-left.JONATHAN LEMIRE: Yeah. “Right Turn on Read” is the headline here. And this is the subhead, though, that I think Republicans are seizing on: ”GOP midterm prospects improve as Dems nominate socialist radicals.”I mean, obviously not actually a socialist. As Ali pointed out, doesn’t actually consider himself part of the DSA. But we’re seeing this is the Republicans’ closing argument here is that they think that the Democrats, you know, that there’s energy on the left there. Communists and socialists, they use those words interchangeably, even though, of course, they’re not actually the same thing. It’s the Red Scare.And they feel that, you know, and whether those labels actually work or not, at the very least, there is a sense from both parties. Michigan, because of this result yesterday, Michigan is now perhaps more of a toss up than it would have been previously. I think that is possibly true. And we had, the nominee on our air yesterday. We interviewed him. We asked him a lot of questions, including those around Israel. And he’s going to have to keep facing those questions. And I think his answers are unsettling to some voters. That said, we also shouldn’t downplay some of the energy that’s on the left right now. He is a political talent. Yes, there are some things surely he will need to adjust here in the next couple of months, but I think it would be a mistake to suddenly say, ‘oh, this seat’s going into the Republican column here,’ Ali, when I think polls suggest a tight race, to be sure. But and — I think that, you know, there is an onus on him as well as some of the others in Michigan to bring that party together in that state after a particularly bruising fight. (…)7:03:01 AM EasternTRUMP: These people are dangerous, and frankly, they are lunatics. They’re crazy, and we can’t let them get into office. Communism is the greatest threat to our country in its history, including even World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, 9?11. I think it’s the greatest threat. But everyone, every time this has happened and you do that, you go through squalor and you had the word again: filth, crime, death, destruction, embarrassment. You lose your home, you lose your apartment. And that’s where the communists will take us 100%. When I watch Abdul, he’s full of s***.[Cuts back to live]GEIST: The President of the United States – worth pausing here, Jonathan Lemire – just said that the election of Abdul El-Sayed, perhaps thinking about Mayor Mamdani here in New York City and other candidates in the Democratic Party right now. First of all, they’re not communist or socialist. There’s a distinction there. But put that to the side, saying their election is the worst thing to happen to this country ever, including World War II, Pearl Harbor, part of that, and 9/11. Just pause. The President of the United States said the election of a candidate to be the nominee in Michigan is worse than 9/11.LEMIRE: It’s obscene. It’s obscene, and it’s inaccurate. And of course, we’re about to have the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, which will be a tough day for a lot of people, especially here in New York City. I mean, and think about the hundreds – I mean, how many people died in World War two? Millions of people around the world died, you know, 10 million or more. And now this, because it’s a political opponent, it’s a cheap line. And Willie, you noticed it actually, because he said this before. He said it a few weeks ago. I just found the quote as we knew we were coming in with it. It didn’t get a lot of attention. It sure seemed like he was reading off the prompter.GEIST: Yeah. LEMIRE: So this seems like something that they think is an effective argument. And it is deeply offensive. And, you know, yet another just outrage when it comes from the president of the United States.GEIST: Rhetoric is so cheap now, I guess, Mike, that he can just say whatever he wants and people move on, “Oh, that’s him being him.” But it is worth pausing, as Jon points out accurately, at the 25th anniversary of 9/11, that he thinks the election by voters of a certain kind of candidate in the state of Michigan is the biggest catastrophe in the history of the country.MIKE BARNICLE: Mr. President, if you’re listening this morning, I dare you to come to New York City on September 11th, which is coming up, and repeat what you just said here in Manhattan, and you’ll realize that you were wrong.(…)

Francesca Hong always struck me as the type of person who gives out carrots instead of candy on Halloween. My physiognomy-based interpretations apparently find validation in the Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate’s own words.
“I don’t allow myself to work Halloween weekend or the day of,” Hong, a restaurant worker, wrote in 2019. “I would actually ask every single person in costume to leave.”
She elaborated this week in objecting to the unhealthy candy distributed to children and acknowledged that she just is not a very fun person.
Why not call for a 40-mile-per-hour highway speed limit and a ban on yoga pants?
Well, Hong’s distaste for Halloween extends to other holidays celebrated by the people she presumably wishes to vote for her. Not just Halloween but so much of the calendar vexes Hong.
She said of Valentine’s Day that “the worst of humanity comes out from folks ‘celebrating’ on another day capitalism tells you how to show love.” On July 5, 2020, she posted: “Why isn’t there a curfew on fireworks?” She felt “slightly attacked,” she confessed, at seeing a Christmas tree image on her laptop.
“Cancel Thanksgiving,” Hong tweeted five years ago. “Should have done this in 1621. If it takes a worldwide pandemic for us to realize we should stop celebrating colonialism and the original superspreader event that killed indigenous folx and women, so be it.”
Even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders decline to endorse Hong.
She initially refused to disown this view on CNN. Then, Politico.com interviewed her in an effort to allow her to pivot, and she called Thanksgiving her favorite holiday and stuffing her favorite Thanksgiving dish. This seemed more honestly dishonest than other attempts to flee from past proclamations. Does she stand by her endorsement to defund and abolish the police? An intelligent person senses she does because she answers by qualifying her answer with “right now,” and instead of responding to whether we should abolish the police, she notes that we cannot abolish the police. In using legalistic language that allows her to mislead the public, Hong actually shows herself as more dishonest, not less. (RELATED: You Simply Cannot Give Power to Lunatics)
Even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders decline to endorse Hong. Sanders diplomatically described the state representative from Madison as “nice” but explained that he knows very little about this Wisconsin race. Though the grand-poohbah socialists keep their distance, rank-and-file Wisconsin Democrats love her. The latest poll, commissioned by Marquette Law School, showed her with more than double the support of Mandela Barnes, who has since dropped out, and with more than quadruple the support of the best-performing Democrat still in the race.
How can an Almira Gulch killjoy who trashes such American traditions as Thanksgiving, the Fourth of July, and trick-or-treating own such a commanding lead among Wisconsin Democrats?
Francesca Hong disturbs not because of what she believes but precisely because of what she reflects. She acts as a mirror that exposes not-well-hidden hatreds many Democrats feel for their own country. She leads among Wisconsin Democrats not in spite of her anti-American tics but because of them.
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