Cornered Trump 'increasingly at the mercy of forces he unleashed': report
Trump's courtroom luck has run out — and he's taking it personally.
After riding a wave of favorable Supreme Court rulings delivered through the so-called "shadow docket," the president has hit a wall. The result: an unhinged Truth Social meltdown late Sunday night that exposed just how badly the political ground has shifted beneath his feet.
According to Politico's Kyle Cheney, Trump is discovering that weaponizing the courts isn't a fail-safe strategy, and he is finding out the hard way that he is also "increasingly at the mercy of forces he unleashed but can’t control." Among them are skyrocketing gas prices, climbing unemployment, an Iran crisis threatening to spiral, his political coalition fracturing, his signature tariff-based trade strategy in ruins, and mounting scrutiny of the Epstein files.
A public revolt against his agenda is now threatening to obliterate Republicans in the midterms.
Unable to control the chaos, Trump has turned the federal judiciary into his personal punching bag. In a Sunday night rage that sent Washington's amateur psychoanalysts into overdrive, he targeted the media, independent regulators, and — most tellingly — the Supreme Court itself, which he branded "a weaponized, and unjust Political Organization."
The irony is withering, Cheney wrote. The same Supreme Court Trump is now savaging is arguably the institution most responsible for his political resurrection. The justices blocked efforts by blue states to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot by invoking his role in January 6. The court's expansive presidential immunity ruling also torched special counsel Jack Smith's most serious criminal charges against him.
But Trump's gratitude has an expiration date, the report stated.
The Supreme Court's recent rejection of his unilateral tariff authority has consumed him. He views it as a personal betrayal — a direct assault on the governing philosophy that's defined his entire public career. Since the ruling landed last month, Trump has obsessed over it, attacking the high court nearly every few days.
That fixation erupted in Sunday's posts, where Trump deployed a barrage of insults against the Obama-appointed judge: "wacky, nasty, crooked, totally out of control, flagrant, extreme." He added: "Exactly what Judges should not be!"
Trump went further, describing the judge as "a man who suffers from the highest level of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), and has been 'after' my people, and me, for years," and calling for Boasberg and other judges to "suffer serious disciplinary action."
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