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You two cannot understand the ruling. I’m sorry for that, but tried to help: I broke it down for you in the original post.

Let’s try one more time.

1) Wong Kim Ark was ruled to be a natural born citizen even though he had TWO parents who were not citizens.

2) One must be a natural born citizen to eligible to be POTUS. So Wong Kim Ark could have been a POTUS.

2) The court ruled that children born in the US to Ambassadors and the like of other countries were NOT natural born citizens.

3) If one required two citizens, who were naturally born by your definition, in order to be a Natural Born Citizen then YOU would not be a natural born citizen if you had even ONE great-great grandparent who was not in the US in 1789.

4) If having dual citizenship precluded Americans from being President, then Yemen could prevent every member of the GOP from being President by recognizing them as citizens.

I understand the ruling just fine, and happen to agree with you that there are two types of citizens of the USA, natural born and naturalized - and that Wong Kim Ark established that neither parent has to be a citizen for the child to be a “natural born” citizen; so long as U.S. citizenship was established by the circumstances of birth (in this case, birth under the jurisdiction of the USA).

1) Yes, Wong Kim Ark was a “natural born” citizen, neither parent was a citizen.

2) If Wong Kim Ark won the electoral college vote after attaining the age of 35, then yes, President Wong Kim Ark.

2 again) Yep, if you are in the USA on the business of your home nation you are not subject to the jurisdiction of the USA.

3) As I pointed out, nobody would qualify as a “natural born citizen” if both parents had to be; as everyone in America has a great^n degree grandparent who was not a natural born citizen.

4) Yeppers! America doesn't recognize foreign citizenship status, dual citizenship, etc. You either are a U.S. citizen by birth, by naturalization, or you are NOT a U.S. citizen.