Photo: Pete Souza
The Obamas’ White House photographer, Pete Souza,posted a throwback photo of the momentwhere the mini-head of the Catholic church met the then-president and first lady while trick-or-treating at the White House.
In the photo,Barack Obama,57, andMichelle Obama, 54, are laughing heartily at the little one dressed in a white robe with a tall white hat and sitting in a tiny push car painted white and gold. It even has papal flags on the hood! The couple is also holding baskets of candy for their young visitors.
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Souza often uses his popular Instagram account to throw shade at current PresidentDonald Trump, and his hashtag on Wednesday is meant to encourage fellow critics to take their feelings to the polls at the midterms.
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The caption references two recent scandals the Trump administration has faced. On Monday last week, the45th commander in chief tweeted that a caravantraveling through Mexico to the U.S. border included “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners … Must change laws!”
“While we acknowledge there are vulnerabilities at both our northern and southern border, we do not see any evidence that ISIS or other Sunni terrorist groups are trying to infiltrate the southern U.S. border,” the source told the outlet.
Souza’s “birthright citizenship” comment refers toTrump’s plans to stop children born in the U.S. toundocumented immigrantsfrom automatically becoming citizens, which he revealed duringan interview withAxios on HBOreleased Tuesday.
“It’s in the process. It’ll happen with an executive order,” the president said. “I didn’t think anybody knew that but me. I thought I was the only one … It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don’t … You can definitely do it with an act of Congress but now they’re saying I can do it with just an executive order.”
According to legal experts, it most likely can’t happen.
As the 14th Amendment states: “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.” Constitutional scholars believe it would require a constitutional amendment to change that, according toFactCheck.org.
source: people.com
