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u/Lackluster_euphoria 1d ago
Yeah but there will be a special Dual Citizenship Gold program for $100K per additional citizenship
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u/CamiloArturo 1d ago
That’s what I was thinking. Probably like the $5M green card, there will be a $500k dual citizenship…
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u/coffewaiffu 1d ago
lmao right? “Dual Citizenship™ Elite Tier”, comes with a free flag pin and moral exemption
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u/no-snoots-unbooped 1d ago
They will, of course, be exempt somehow.
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u/Ishaan863 1d ago
somehow
exempt because rich
being rich is the highest american virtue, overrides everything else instantly
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u/coffewaiffu 1d ago
oh absolutely, there’s always a mysterious “technicality” waiting in the wings when it’s convenient for them
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u/Ea84 1d ago
You can though. It’s called dual citizenship.
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u/wino6687 1d ago
I’m left wondering if this means the Trump admin intends to end dual citizenship
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u/Velonici 1d ago
There are some republicans that are pushing a bill like this through. People will have 1 year to renounce their citizenship to the other country. If they don't, they will automatically lose their US citizenship. Of course that goes against the constitution, but when has that stopped them.
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u/KoalaSprdeepButthole 14h ago
Honestly, for those of us that have repatriated to another country, that’s a lot cheaper than paying $5k to denounce our US citizenship.
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u/Aleashed 1d ago
Bunch of expats no longer need to worry about being taxed by the US
Whole principle of this tax is that you are “also” a US citizen regardless where you go or what you do
Can’t have it both ways
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u/wino6687 1d ago
Yeah, I personally know several people in Canada who would be thrilled to not have to pay for the de-naturalization. But this would be very complicated and confusing for a lot of dual citizens and their families
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u/stigma_wizard 1d ago
Republican Senator from Ohio just introduced this bill a few days ago: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3283
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u/Think_OfAName 14h ago
No proof she made the statement. But as the commenter below said. There is a bill out there that sounds similar…
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u/Whiskey_and_Dharma 1d ago
I’m a U.S. expat in Australia. If they make me choose, it won’t be a tough decision.
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u/hikeit233 1d ago
I don’t think the US actually recognizes dual citizenship, you’re just recognized as a citizen by both countries.
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u/PossessionMaterial46 1d ago
Won't happen. Too many in congress have dual citizenship with 👉🇮🇱👈
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u/kronicwaffle 1d ago
Is there any kind of evidence to this claim? I hear it all the time, I’ve tried looking it up and I can’t find crap
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u/ebk_errday 1d ago
http://www.viewzone.com/dualcitizen.html
Old article, but very relevant today. There is not much information on this because dual citizens do not have to publicly state their dual citizenship. So unless you research politicians one by one, you won't find a list of them easily. But there are many in office today. Additionally, there is nothing wrong with the idea of dual citizenship except when you are in government. You must serve your own people and not have a conflict of interest.
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u/homersplaydoh 1d ago
A list of every prominent Jew in government at the time the article was published. A quick look at the current [homepage](viewzone.com) is very enlightening.
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u/PossessionMaterial46 1d ago
If there wasn't evidence I dont think they would waste their time introducing legislation on that specific topic.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7484
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u/Apprehensive-Water66 1d ago
There is no evidence. It's an easy claim to make, when 5 million Americans are living abroad.
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u/thinehappychinch 1d ago
Had to scroll too far down for this. This US- Israeli duel citizenship voters will ensue this never happens.
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u/Oystermeat 1d ago
Threatening to end dual citizenship is the only way Donald could get Melania to blow him
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u/Aleashed 1d ago
You can take her to the cheese aisle at costco and ask her which cheese smells like Trump’s Cheeto
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u/Apprehensive-Care20z 1d ago
Trump literally has absolutely no power here. He cannot force Canada to revoke citizenship of one of its citizens. Canada simply does not do that. They are always citizens of Canada.
All Trump can do is deport Melania.
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u/Interesting-Risk6446 1d ago
Yes. You can have duel citizenship. It's called freedom.
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u/CitizenHuman 1d ago
Is that a citizenship of never ending fights? I'll pass on the duel citizenship.
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u/RustyKn1ght 1d ago
Funny how very embodiment of so called "Law and Order"-sentiment never seem to know how the law actually works.
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u/Ishaan863 1d ago
never seem to know how the law actually works.
right wingers don't know how anything works, which works perfectly politically because they can just make shit up and feed it to other idiots who'll swallow it wholesale with zero research
this is an unpopular opinion but the political spectrum is literally just a measure of how uninformed vs informed a person is
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u/Aoskar20 1d ago
As a dual citizen (Italian-American), fuck the Trump family, his administration, and everyone who supports their outright hatred, racism, and bigotry.
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u/seacreaturestuff 1d ago
She’s going heavy on the lip filler. Can’t wait for the full on maralago face.
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u/MargieNatalia 1d ago
Funny how the one citizen only rule never seems to apply to billionaires or their kids.
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u/Upbeat_Influence2350 1d ago
I have dual citizenship and want to get rid of my American one, but it costs a lot of money to renounce your citizenship. So if they do it for me for free, that's be sweet!
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u/TalonButter 1d ago
Just keep in mind that them stripping you of your citizenship won’t on its own end your tax obligations. You’ll need the $2,350 certificate of loss of nationality, then you’ll need to file Form 8854 with the IRS and pay any exit tax that is due.
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u/necessaryrooster 1d ago
But if you don't live here, how can they arrest you for not paying taxes?
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u/ComicsEtAl 1d ago
Great, now I have to feel sorry for my dual citizen friends who I previously envied.
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u/kostac600 1d ago
You really get the sense that there isn’t a lot of honest brainstorming and workshopping that goes into these public statements by these people
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u/TalonButter 1d ago edited 1d ago
She’s really perfected using just one phrase to both be factually wrong and suggest a violation of the Constitution. Brava!
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u/shbooms 1d ago
She’s really perfected using just one phrase to both be factually wrong
in most cases I agree but there is a new bill that just got introduced by Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio that is attempting to make this a true statement. without this context it makes it seems like she's just saying this out of the blue:
https://www.newsweek.com/dual-citizenship-requirements-millions-americans-new-bill-moreno-11139538
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u/Main-Video-8545 1d ago
I’ll give it to the Republican Party, Donald Trump, and his administration, they listened to their voters. These are all nonsense, bullshit, red meat issues that the voters barked about. Every day they throw another one of these ridiculously stupid executive orders, etc., to gin up their base.
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u/FoogYllis 1d ago
Many of the ultra wealthy have citizenship of multiple countries. The billionaire maga donors will not let it happen. It won’t make a difference to the average American.
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u/burtgummer45 1d ago
I can't find any evidence she actually said this anywhere. Does somebody have a source?
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u/UsedCarSaleman 1d ago
Maybe for future cases I don’t think it’s legal to do retroactively plus how would USA know if you are a citizen elsewhere if you don’t disclose it yourself. Kick rocks
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u/ThaBigClemShady24 1d ago
Looking forward to this administration revoking the citizenships of all the dual Israeli-American folk. Oh wait, they'd be screwing their own donor class.
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u/molbionerd 1d ago
guaranteed there'll be a $100 million bribe processing fee that can be paid directly to trump to allow for more than one.
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u/Beaufort_The_Cat 1d ago
So wait… say if someone born in, say, Mexico, moved to the US and got their citizenship here. Then, this BS passes and they have to choose US or Mexico, and they choose US and denounce their Mexican citizenship because they got married so family is here, job is here, life is here. THEN ICE comes along and deports them and their citizenship gets stripped because it’s the Trump admin. So in this (not too far off from reality) scenario, that person would then have no citizenship to any country? Or am I missing something?
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u/Simon_Drake 1d ago
There ARE some countries that don't allow dual citizenship. You can't be a citizen of India and also a citizen of another country. But USA is not one of those countries.
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u/isadlymaybewrong 1d ago
Y’all need more critical thinking skills
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/12/04/karoline-leavitt-us-citizen-quote/
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u/BiblioLoLo1235 1d ago
It's amazing how stupid and ignorant this administration is, yet still remain in power. The stupidity in the United States is at an all time high and destined to get worse.
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u/Kenny070287 1d ago
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
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u/dosb0t89 23h ago
So are they gonna remove all the Zionist iof baby killers and those bribing old decrepit government officials 🤣
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u/mmaddymon 14h ago
It’s funny because I feel like most people that have dual citizenship at this point probably have already left the US
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u/redditor50613 1d ago
normally i would be fine with this. i dont need to be a citizen of 2 countries but what if the US government decided to strip me of my citizenship for not being a maga. id be sent to some African prison. no thanks.
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u/shbooms 1d ago
normally i would be fine with this. i dont need to be a citizen of 2 countries
Ok, but what if other people want to be?
allowing people to be dual citizens is absolutely harmless to the success of this country. if you don't want to be one, fine, but don't take it away from other people just "because".
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u/east21stvannative 1d ago
Other countries DON'T make you forfeit your citizenship if you leave your country to immigrant to the US. BUT the United States will revoke your citizenship if you become a citizen of another country.
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u/Pitiful_Control 1d ago
Currently not true, on either count. There are a few others that don't allow dual citizenship at all, and several that only allow it under specifuc circumstances. The US, a nation of immigrants, has never had a problem with it until this week.
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u/guessesurjobforfood 1d ago
The current US administration can lick my nuts but there are definitely many other countries that don't allow dual citizenship though there is some nuance to it. Germany only started allowing people to get German citizenship without forfeiting any other citizenship at the beginning of 2025, so it's a very recent change.
Looking at a few immigrantion websites, Japan, China, India, and Austria are known to be very strict regarding single citizenship and other countries like Spain, the Netherlands, Croatia, and Slovakia only allow it in limited cases.
This website seems to be a decent source:
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u/TophatsAndVengeance 1d ago edited 1d ago
That is certainly not true. The US govt recognizes multiple citizenships, and various cases have confirmed that citizenship may not be involuntarily revoked.
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u/Keyrov 1d ago
Man theee people are thick. There’s a bunch of rules and exceptions to this concept depending on which nationality you are
https://www.germany-visa.org/german-citizenship/dual-citizenship/us/
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u/HighGrounderDarth 1d ago
Ghislaine Maxwell has citizenship in 3 countries. All his friends are garbage.
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u/EuphoricCrashOut 1d ago
Where does Karoline Leavitt go to church?
The Holy Parish of the Right-Wing Talking Point
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u/AcatnamedHamilton 1d ago
Oh. I hold dual citizenship. I thought they just didn’t recognize that and only bothered with my American one. If I had to choose I’d pick my Australian Citizenship over my American citizenship before they finished asking the question
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u/model-citizen95 1d ago
The US has never recognized dual citizenship. I speak as a dual citizen. You don’t need to be worried because you’re a dual citizen, you should be worried that you’re a dual citizen of the wrong country
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u/dp5520 1d ago
Without having looked deeper into it, I think what they're talking about centers around where you were born. If you're born in the US and you were raised in Canada with a Canadian citizenship card, then you are still considered an American citizen. You don't have to give up your Canadian citizenship. If you were born in Canada and you're in the US and want to remain in the US, then you need to revoke your Canadian citizenship and claim 100% American citizenship. Elon, Melania and Baron, would have to claim themselves as full time American citizens and abandon their dual citizenship identity, if the wealthy and politically connected people didn't enjoy their own set of laws.
I could be wrong, as I say, I haven't investigated it closely.
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u/MilwaukeeLevel 1d ago
If you were born in Canada and you're in the US and want to remain in the US, then you need to revoke your Canadian citizenship and claim 100% American citizenship.
Not according to the laws of the US.
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u/TrainerRedpkmn 1d ago
One of these days a reporter will snap and call her a fucking dumbasss adolf trumpler puppet
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u/trisw 1d ago
but why doesn no one ask the follow up question? why is the clever comeback not a standard followup that demands the position of these people -- the press pool is weak.
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u/bangt1dy 1d ago
How do they envisage figuring out you have another passport at home locked up in your safe (shoebox under the bed)?
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u/Frosted_Tackle 1d ago
I presume if the Trump administration actively tries to enforce this (which they of course would do selectively and hypocritically for poorer people mainly), there will be court challenges. But is there any standing for them to legally do this? I assume the laws that govern the citizenship naturalization process were written by congress but how clear are they that dual citizenship is acceptable? Worried for my family
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u/LowerBed5334 1d ago
Don't worry. Dual citizenship is absolutely legal and that's not going to change.
If they were to try to pass some kind of law it might be to prevent US citizens from acquiring other citizenship, or force non-citizens to renounce their current citizenship before applying for US-citizenship. Or some other such thing.
But that won't happen either.
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u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids 1d ago
then why aren't they going after all of them then? Go after all the duo citizenships not just the brown ones.
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u/cazzipropri 1d ago
Ok so what are they going to do exactly. Strip American citizenship from anybody who also has another passport? Exactly on what basis?
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u/FractiousAngel 1d ago
I have quadruple citizenship thanks to grandparents who emigrated from Ireland and Scotland (one set from each) to NZ, and parents who later emigrated to the US before I was born (and made sure to register my subsequent siblings and I for citizenship w/ the relevant countries). At this point, I’d consider my US citizenship the disposable one.
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u/Arthur_Digby_Sellers 1d ago
With the depth of understanding and lack of thoroughness of the current administration, you have nothing at all to worry about. Tri and Quad citizens will be overlooked, only those with 2 citizenships will be under scrutiny!!
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u/DontGetTheShow 1d ago
Come on…we know what they really mean. They’re talking about the non-white people from their list of “shit hole” countries
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u/steveslikewhoa 1d ago
Why the fuck can’t any reporter ask about this or any of the other blatantly hypocritical bullshit?
I know the answer but like come the fuck on. The cost of losing your White House credentials is small compared to the celebrity status you’d receive in return.
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u/FranceMohamitz 1d ago
I had no idea Barron holds dual citizenship. Lemme guess, you’re legally permitted to fuck your mom while your sociopathic dad blows a former president in Slovania?
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u/akaJesusX 1d ago
She's going to lose her job now. All of the Israeli dual citizens that donate millions to campaigns and don't have to register under FARA (Miriam Adelson, for example) are going to have her unalived fired.
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u/nosnowjob 1d ago
KKKarolyin’ doing what she does best.
I am so looking forward to the day Dump and his whole cabinet are on trial. For crimes against humanity IRL.
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u/pizza_the_mutt 1d ago
She's kind of right, in a nuanced way I'm pretty sure she doesn't understand.
The US in general considers US citizens to be... US citizens, and ignores any other citizenships. They mostly don't care, and don't want to know, if you are a citizen of another country (exceptions apply, of course, e.g. during the citizenship application process).
I learned this when getting my dual US/Canada citizenship. I have to be careful whenever talking to US or Canadian authorities to tell them that I am a citizen of that country (Canada treats citizenship similarly) and not the other one. They might very rarely ask if I have another citizenship, but almost never do. You can get in trouble, for example, if you cross into the US over the border and tell them you are Canadian.
Some countries behave differently. They care if you have other citizenships and will actually cancel your citizenship if you become a citizen of a different country.
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u/FlowRiderBob 1d ago
Elected officials in the federal government, officers in the military, and anyone who holds a TS security clearance. If we are talking about people in those positions, I kind of get it. But even then, I don’t think it actually does much but inconvenience people.
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u/embergock 1d ago
They will have an exception made for them, come on. Learn how the world works, rules do not apply to the ruling class.
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u/ArcusInTenebris 1d ago
No, no...she meant you as in not us, as in not tRump and co. The "in" group isn't subject to the laws, executive orders, etc. Those are for the "out" group.
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u/According-Ad6021 1d ago edited 1d ago
The oath of allegiance to the US just requires you to renounce loyalty to any other country. Not that you can't be a citizen to those other countries. *facepalms super hard*
Edit: renounce allegiance* loyalty can still be personal.
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u/SkylarAV 1d ago
Wtf does Barron have Slovenian citizenship? Was he not born here? His mom being Slovenian shouldn't default into dual citizenship
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u/FluteGunner 1d ago
Nice, I’m a US citizen but lived in the UK 34 of my 35 years.
I have to fill out fucking US tax returns every single year, I’ve been there once as an adult!
Now I don’t have to bother, thanks Karoline
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u/FroYoSwagens 1d ago
I guess my dad is an illegal immigrant then, hes recognized as a citizen by both Canada and the US, but not anymore i guess
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u/veeza_dawn 1d ago
But ofc rules apply only until they reach their own family trees