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Trump's Crypto Windfall, Dems' Anti-Establishment Wave, and the Supreme Court’s Big Week
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Scott Galloway: Anchor Baby, Reluctant American, and $100M Taxpayer
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The discussion of birthright citizenship takes a sharp personal turn when Scott discloses his own origin story: his Scottish father and English mother met in Toronto, she became pregnant, and 7.5 months into the pregnancy they drove from Canada to San Diego in an Austin Mini — his father having read a Toronto Globe and Mail article calling it the best weather in North America. Thirty-seven days later, Scott was born at La Jolla County Hospital. [1] — Scott Galloway "Scott Galloway's Canadian parents drove to San Diego in an Austin Mini when his mother was 7.5 months pregnant, and he was born there. He i…" 41:55 By the Trump administration's own framing, he is an anchor baby. He's paid over $100 million in US taxes as a result. He sardonically notifies the Trump administration that they should revoke his citizenship — and in that case, he'll sell his next company from Dubai and owe nothing. The sequence is both funny and pointed: Scott Galloway, the most prominent pro-capitalist voice on the show, is the exact person birthright citizenship was designed to produce.
