While that may have been a bridge too far for Capehart, he had no problem claiming President Trump’s new birthright citizenship executive orders were “openly racist” and “white nationalist.” Nawaz lamented to Brooks, “What we have seen from Republicans on the messaging front so far is some anti-Muslim rhetoric already. But I just want to ask each of you, why do you think the president is so singularly obsessed with this one issue? Unsubtle as ever, Capehart answered, “Well, multiple times at this table during the campaign, I said the president was running an openly racist, xenophobic, white nationalist campaign for president. For his part, Brooks claimed, “Trump supporters I spoke to say birthright citizenship was fine between 1925 and 1965, a low immigration era.