Conservative pundit Ann Coulter made a bold but historically inaccurate claim after Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech and ended up getting harshly fact-checked on social media.

Coulter, who has made many anti-immigration statements over the years, continued her habit of hate with a post on X that praised the ending of Trump’s speech while bashing the children of immigrants:

That beautiful ending to Trump’s SOTU address reminds me why we can’t have a second-, third-, or fourth- generation immigrant as president. Love for our country has to be in your genes.

Coulter’s post was quickly hit with a community note that brutally demolished her claim:

President Trump is a second generation immigrant through his Scottish-born mother and a third generation immigrant through his German-born paternal grandparents.

That beautiful ending to Trump's SOTU address reminds me why we can't have a second-, third-, or fourth- generation immigrant as president. Love for our country has to be in your genes.

Trump isn’t the only president who was the child of first- and second-generation immigrants.

He shares that distinction with a number of presidents, including Barack Obama, whose father was from Kenya; Herbert Hoover, whose mother emigrated from Canada; Woodrow Wilson, whose mother was born in England; Andrew Jackson, whose parents were both born in Ireland; and James Buchanan, whose dad emigrated from Ireland.

Coulter’s praise of Trump’s speech was heavily criticized by X users beyond the community note.

Reagan was third generation. The guy who probably wrote the speech, Miller, is second generation. But don't let us interrupt https://t.co/dzL0brtdSt

Can't decide if she's more dumb than racist, or more racist than dumb. (Priceless community note.) https://t.co/Pq0yLLb41m

She makes it look easy but it's actually a lot of work to be so shamelessly ignorant and profoundly unserious. https://t.co/or5LIGCt8a

Some of the people who love the US the most, or did, are the very immigrants you all want to deport. https://t.co/w7So89Vx2v

But Glenn Elliott, a onetime Democratic candidate vying to represent West Virginia in the Senate, noted that Coulter probably knew exactly what she was doing.

“For her audience, however, a white woman immigrating here from a predominantly white European country is not an immigrant,” Elliott wrote. “That term is reserved for brown people. One awful trend over the last ten years of our national politics is that the dog whistles used by racists like Coulter are becoming much less subtle.”

A lot of people are retweeting this as a "gotcha" for @anncoulter. They are missing the point. She knows Trump's mother was born in Scotland. For her audience, however, a white woman immigrating here from a predominantly white European country is not an immigrant. That term is… https://t.co/2ZTqO4AVox

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