President Donald Trump recently unleashed a fiery rant about the U.S. Supreme Court over its February tariff ruling in a post published on his Truth Social platform late Sunday night. Legal and political science experts say the president’s post reveals quite a lot about how he views his relationship with the nation’s highest court.
Trump lashed out at the Supreme Court justices for striking down most of his sweeping “emergency” tariffs in a 6-3 decision last month, writing, “The decision that mattered most to me was TARIFFS!”
“The Court knew where I stood, how badly I wanted this Victory for our Country, and instead decided to, potentially, give away Trillions of Dollars to Countries and Companies who have been taking advantage of the United States for decades,” he wrote in the lengthy post, before saying he has already begun to explore other routes to impose tariffs.
Trump applauded the three conservative justices — Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito — who sided with him in the tariffs case. He criticized the other conservative justices for not deciding in his favor.
“The Democrats on the Court always ‘stick together,’ no matter how strong a case is put before them — There is rarely even a minor ‘waver.’ But Republicans do not do this,” he said.
