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Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Trump scrambles to reclaim the narrative on his two weakest issues

Wednesday saw President Donald Trump begin his day by heading to the Supreme Court to hear arguments on his administration’s case to end birthright citizenship, a right that has been enshrined in the U.S. Constitution for more than a century and going back to after the Civil War.

But if Trump thought that the fact that he nominated three justices would seal the deal for him, he was mistaken. All three — Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch —seemed to utterly dismiss and scoff at Solicitor General John Sauer’s responses to their questions.

Prior to Trump’s little trek, he engaged with his normal behavior of attempting to jawbone the stock market by teasing that Iran’s president had asked for a ceasefire while also bragging that he might blast “Iran into oblivion or, as they say, back to the Stone Ages.”

This comes as the president will deliver an address to the nation about Iran this evening.

Welcome to the Trump reset. Or, at least, Trump’s attempt to regain control of the narrative. Presidents, particularly in their sixth year in office, suffer from voters who have grown tired of them or don’t believe the president has followed up on his promises.

Trump is not one to back down, so instead, he’s trying to do what he always does: reassert dominance in the face of all facts and data. Except in Trump’s case, few Americans believe he’s in the right.

Read more here.

By Eric Garcia

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A courtroom sketch depicts Donald Trump watching oral arguments at the Supreme Court on April 1 as justices review his executive order to limit birthright citizenship by redefining the scope of the 14th amendment

Trump showed up to the Supreme Court ready to fight against birthright citizenship. It was dead on arrival

Justices appeared skeptical of his attempt to rewrite the 14th Amendment while the president flails against history and the Constitution, Alex Woodward writes.

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