Overview
- Posting after Trump’s State of the Union, Coulter wrote that only multi‑generation Americans should be eligible for the presidency because “love for our country has to be in your genes.”
- X attached a Community Note stating Trump is a second‑generation American through his Scottish‑born mother and third‑generation through his German‑born paternal grandparents, linking to the Trump family Wikipedia page.
- Commentators noted the idea would also have disqualified Ronald Reagan, whose grandparents included immigrants from Ireland and England.
- Media coverage highlighted Coulter’s own background, with maternal lineage she touts to colonial times and paternal ancestors who immigrated from Ireland and Germany.
- The post drew widespread mockery and legal pushback online, with observers emphasizing that the Constitution contains no multi‑generation requirement for presidential eligibility.