A post on X claims that none of President-Elect Donald Trump’s Children would have become U.S. citizens themselves under his plan to eliminate birthright citizenship.

Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship would mean 4 of his children wouldn’t be considered US citizens:

Don Jr – born in 1977
Ivanka – born in 1981
Eric – born in 1984
Ivana – became a US citizen in 1988

Barron – born in March 2006
Melania – became a US citizen in July 2006 pic.twitter.com/OpIssJg77t

— anyone_want_chips (@anyonewantchips) December 9, 2024

Verdict: False

Trump was a U.S. Citizen when his children were born here, making them legal citizens automatically.

Fact Check:

President-Elect Donald Trump plans to enter office with a bold new immigration policy that differs from his predecessor dramatically. He vowed to end birthright citizenship, which allows for all people born on U.S. soil to become American citizens automatically. “We’re going to end that because it’s ridiculous,” Trump said. Opponents of birthright citizenship feel have long criticized the policy, arguing that it creates a market for “birth tourism.”

A post on X is claiming that Trump’s immigration policies would affect his own children. It states that Donald Jr, Ivanka, Eric and Barron would all have been rejected for U.S. citizenship under these policies because their mothers were immigrants at the time of their birth. Neither incoming First Lady Melania Trump or Ivana Trump were American citizens yet at the time of their child’s births.

The premise of the viral post is false, however. All of Trump’s children would still be natural American citizens because their father was a citizen and they were born on American soil. (RELATED: No, Poll Didn’t Show 64% Of Americans Support Hunter Biden’s Pardon)

Birthright citizenship is given to babies when two non-citizens give birth on U.S. soil. Children gaining birthright citizenship are often called “anchor babies,” according to the American Immigration Council, as it is perceived that some women purposely give birth in America so they can more easily become citizens themselves.

Because Donald Trump is a U.S. citizen, being his children’s biological father and them being born in America would still have made his children American citizens by default. None of his children’s citizenship statuses would have changed under his proposed rules.