Trump threatens "much more powerful and damaging" tariffs in a new attack against the Supreme Court ruling

WashingtonDonald Trump's anger with the Supreme Court over cancel reciprocal tariffs This can be measured by the number of posts on Truth Social attacking the justices. Three days after the ruling, the president is still ranting against the conservative justices who rebelled against him and threatened "more powerful and damaging" tariffs. The president didn't like seeing the conservative majority break ranks. Trump is now overreacting and promising worse calamities as a warning of what could happen in the future if the high court continues to go against him. Also on the Supreme Court's docket is the case of Fed Governor Lisa Cook, which will be crucial for the independence of the US central bank.

"The United States Supreme Court (I will use lowercase for a while out of absolute disrespect!) accidentally and unwittingly gave me, as President of the United States, far more power and strength than I had before its ridiculous, stupid, and highly divisive ruling." According to the president, he now has "more power" because in its argument to overturn the reciprocal tariffs, the Supreme Court also cited other tariffs applied under different regimes and statutes that it deemed legal. Just hours after the high court struck down the aforementioned tariffs, Trump appeared at the White House to announce, under these new powers, new global tariffs of 10% that replaced the previous ones. In a show of defiance for the audacity of having his self-proclaimed absolute power questioned, Trump raised the tariffs to 15% on Saturday. Following the same logic of a vengeful god who sends plagues indiscriminately, the tycoon threatened all foreign countries with even worse scenarios. “I can use licenses to do absolutely terrible things in foreign countries, especially those countries that have been exploiting us for many decades, but incomprehensibly, according to the ruling, I can’t charge them any license fees [...] The opinion [of the ruling] doesn’t explain it, but I know the answer!” he declared, adding, “Our incomprehension is wrong, and that’s why they should be ashamed (but not the Big Three!).”

The “Big Three” Trump is referring to are the three conservative justices who remained loyal to him: Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr., and Brett M. Kavanaugh. Last Friday, the Republican noted that he had jotted down the names of the other three justices who voted against his reciprocal tariffs. He also asserted, contrary to the ruling, that he doesn’t need congressional approval to wage his trade war. In another post on Truth Social this Monday, the president again emphasized how he considers his authority to be above that of the legislature. "As president, I don't have to go back to Congress to get tariff approval. It was already obtained, in many ways, a long time ago! And it was just reaffirmed by the Supreme Court's ridiculous and poorly written decision!" the tycoon wrote.