Rush Limbaugh Called Obama 'Our Little Boy President.' In 2012.
The radio host was mocking press sympathy for Obama. He reached for a word with a history that doesn't disappear when the speaker is being sarcastic.
On May 20, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced H.J.Res. 188, a proposed constitutional amendment requiring natural-born citizenship for members of Congress, federal judges and Senate-confirmed federal officers. Naturalized Americans would be excluded from those offices. Mace presented it as a loyalty test. Her announcement said, “If you hold power in the American government, you should be a natural born American citizen.” She singled out Rep. Ilhan Omar and invoked Somalia while arguing that foreign-born lawmakers had loyalties elsewhere. That was Mace's accusation. The amendment itself required no finding of disloyal conduct. Apparently, the paperwork making you American comes with a little asterisk. Nancy gets to decide whether it counts. Rep. Pramila Jayapal responded that day, recalling the pride she felt at her naturalization ceremony and the constituents who had elected naturalized Americans. She called the proposal “narrow-minded, xenophobic legislation.” Their votes would not overcome the new qualification. The proposed rule would also reach a Republican senator. Bernie Moreno's official biography says he was born in Colombia and became an American citizen at 18. Under Mace's text, the ...
