Trump continues to attack Supreme Court after tariff ruling
President Donald Trump on Monday continued to rail against the Supreme Court’s recent decision to block his sweeping tariffs.
In a post to Truth Social, Trump claimed the court “accidentally and unwittingly” gave him “far more powers and strength” than before the "internationally divisive” ruling — even as he signaled he expects another legal defeat after the court hears arguments on his executive order ending birthright citizenship.
Trump has posted at least six messages denouncing the high court on Truth Social since the Friday decision.
“I can use Licenses to do absolutely 'terrible' things to foreign countries, especially those countries that have been RIPPING US OFF for many decades, but incomprehensibly, according to the ruling, can’t charge them a License fee — BUT ALL LICENSES CHARGE FEES, why can’t the United States do so?” Trump said in his post.
The court’s 6-3 decision on Friday dealt a major blow to Trump’s economic and trade agenda. After the ruling, the president announced first a 10 percent and, later, 15 percent global tariff.
The rare rejection of the president’s priorities by the conservative-leaning court quickly drew Trump’s anger, and he lambasted the majority justices as “unpatriotic and disloyal to our Constitution.”
In a separate post on Monday, Trump appeared to warn other countries he is still willing to impose tariffs on them.
"Any Country that wants to 'play games' with the ridiculous supreme court decision, especially those that have 'Ripped Off' the U.S.A. for years, and even decades, will be met with a much higher Tariff, and worse, than that which they just recently agreed to," he said. "BUYER BEWARE!!!"
The president also said that the other tariffs the court has upheld since he took office “can all be used in a much more powerful and obnoxious way, with legal certainty.”
In yet another post on Monday, the president said he does not require congressional approval to enact tariffs.
"It has already been gotten, in many forms, a long time ago! They were also just reaffirmed by the ridiculous and poorly crafted supreme court decision!" Trump said.
As he continued to rail against the court, Trump also suggested the justices will rule against him once more in the upcoming case regarding his January 2025 order eliminating birthright citizenship for children of immigrants.
“The next thing you know they will rule in favor of China and others, who are making an absolute fortune on Birthright Citizenship, by saying the 14th Amendment was NOT written to take care of the 'babies of slaves,' which it was as proven by the EXACT TIMING of its construction, filing, and ratification, which perfectly coincided with the END OF THE CIVIL WAR,” Trump said.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the case in April after multiple appellate courts found Trump’s order unconstitutional and in violation of the 14th Amendment, which states that anyone born or naturalized in the U.S. is a citizen, regardless of the parents’ citizenship.
The amendment was originally ratified following the Civil War to clarify the citizenship of freed enslaved Americans and their children.
Trump on Monday argued the court will “come to the wrong conclusion, one that again will make China, and various other Nations, happy and rich.”
“Let our supreme court keep making decisions that are so bad and deleterious to the future of our Nation — I have a job to do,” he concluded.