The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[Alan V]

Good news.  Most of Trump's tariffs are blocked in court: https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/28/business/...ps-tariffs

It's also been appealed and will possibly be decided by his pets in the SCOTUS. We'll have to wait and see.

I can't see SCOTUS deciding against the Constitution, but who knows?

According to Lawrence O'Donnell, Trump's lawyers had to promise the court that the government would give tariff refunds to everyone if he lost his appeals.

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vyjddkGHMc ]

They also admitted that the fact that the tariffs were blocked in court will undermine trade negotiations based on the threats of those tariffs.  Well yes, of course.  You can't illegally extort other countries, if that's the final decision.

Meanwhile, Trump and others in his administration who are not under oath, like his lawyers, are spouting all sorts of nonsense.

“The Supreme Court must put an end to this for the sake of our Constitution and our country,” said Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, who opened her Thursday briefing by attacking judges for having “brazenly abused their judicial power.” (Per The New York Times)

Trump blasted the lower court ruling on Thursday in a social media post, writing: "Hopefully, the Supreme Court will reverse this horrible, Country threatening decision, QUICKLY and DECISIVELY." (Per the BBC)

“This decision is being hailed all over the World by every Country, other than the United States of America,” Trump wrote on social media late Thursday. “If allowed to stand, this would completely destroy Presidential Power — The Presidency would never be the same!” he added, before calling the ruling, “the harshest financial ruling ever leveled on us as a Sovereign Nation.” (Per CNBC)

Trump is so ignorant of the Constitution and the laws that he doesn't know that the President of the United States never had the power to set tariffs, with limited exceptions.