Two recent clips from high-profile MAGA media podcasters suggest that a new effort by President Donald Trump to ramp up denaturalizations is driven largely by anti-Muslim bigotry. 

According to The New York Times, the Trump administration is setting a goal of bringing 100-200 denaturalization cases per month in fiscal year 2026, up from just over 120 cases in total brought between 2017 and the present.  

In segments on War Room, hosted by former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, and Human Events Daily, hosted by Pizzagate promoter Jack Posobiec, guests with close ties to the White House made it clear that they would want Trump’s denaturalization ramp-up to target Muslims specifically. 

On December 15, Posobiec interviewed the Article III Project’s Will Chamberlain about immigration in general. Article III is headed by Mike Davis, a close ally of Trump’s who presents himself as the administration’s outside enforcer.  

“Islam is not compatible with Western civilization, and mass Muslim migration is not compatible with Western societies, and it’s time to say this experiment has run its course and it needs to stop,” Chamberlain said. 

Chamberlain added that “we're not going to, you know, denaturalize unless we have legal reason to do so” but that “we want there to be net-negative Muslim migration to the United States.” 

Chamberlain’s legalistic caveat aside, achieving “net-negative Muslim migration” would likely require finding a “legal reason” to bring many more denaturalization cases. Chamberlain, for example, called for journalist Mehdi Hasan to be denaturalized and deported in response to Hasan posting “Abolish ICE” on social media.

Days earlier, Bannon interviewed Wade Miller of the Center for Renewing America, a MAGA-affiliated think tank. CRA was founded by Russ Vought, a Christian nationalist currently reprising his role as the head of Trump’s Office of Management and Budget.

“I'm not saying that there's no such thing as a nice and decent Muslim — those exist in our country,” Miller said. “But nowhere in the world do those people manifest themselves in majorities. And there's a reason for that, and at the center of it is radical Islam.”

Miller added, “We want to get ahead of this before it becomes the problem that it is in Europe and start denaturalizing, start moving, taking away people's legal status for immigration fraud, whatever we need to do.”

“Well, now that we're past the screening and that, when you talk about denaturalization, what then is to be done?” Bannon prompted.

“If someone raised their hands and took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and became a citizen, and now they're out there advocating for sharia courts and the undermining of our entire constitutional order, then those should be grounds to denaturalize,” Miller responded.

As Media Matters reported in March, right-wing media figures were already waging a campaign to denaturalize and deport their political opponents, many of whom are Muslim. That effort has only increased over the course of the year, and whatever taboos may have previously constrained open Islamophobia in conservative media seem to have all but been destroyed. As Chamberlain’s comments make clear, his aim is “net-negative Muslim migration,” part of a larger right-wing media embrace of “remigration,” a term for ethnic cleansing.