The Duce starting a slomo coup?

President Trump says he plans to end birthright citizenship with an executive order

President Donald Trump said in an interview that he plans to sign an executive order ending "birthright citizenship" for the children of non-American citizens who are born on U.S. soil, a move that would likely be challenged immediately in the courts over its constitutionality.

"It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don't," Trump told "Axios on HBO" in an interview set to air Sunday, just two days before the midterm election. 

"You can definitely do it with an act of Congress. But now they're saying I can do it just with an executive order."

"We're the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States, with all of those benefits," Trump said. 

(Per WorldAtlas, about 30 nations grant birthright citizenship.)

Several lies there.

The 14th Amendment says in pertinent part "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

Numerous Supreme Court decisions since then have affirmed that the language of the Amendment covers persons born in the US to non-citizens, whether here legally or illegally.

The constitution nowhere says nobody else is a citizen, and the Congress in the early 20th Century extended citizenship to Native Americans.

So, two hypotheses apply, whether or not Trump believes his own garbage and sincerely thinks he can constitutionally deny the application of birthright citizenship to children of non-citizens.

First, his voters will believe his claim and, when the courts stop him, he and they will howl and scream but beyond increasing the hatred of his base for the actually existing constitution and government, that will be an end to it.

Or, second, when the courts stop him he will order the AG and all executive branch agencies and persons to act in a manner consistent with his EO.

That will precipitate a crisis first within the executive branch and, if successful there, amounting to successful defiance of the authority of the Supremes and the authority of the constitution, ending subjection of the presidency to either and to actual law.

That's the first big step in a slomo coup to get rid of the legitimate and lawful republican government he and his deplorables hate and replace it with something more, uh, Venezuelan.

Yep.

I said that.

The Democrats would certainly impeach him in the house.

What would happen in the senate?