The irony is Trump precisely wants fools and lap dogs.
Even After Supreme Court Ruling, Trump Insists He Can Do as He Wishes
The New York Times reports Even After Supreme Court Ruling, Trump Insists He Can Do as He Wishes
President Trump’s furious response on Friday to the Supreme Court’s tariffs decision underscored his insistence that he should be granted expansive powers to carry out his agenda as he wishes.
Lashing out after the court decided that he had exceeded his authority in imposing an array of tariffs over the last year, Mr. Trump labeled the justices who ruled against him “fools and lap dogs” and suggested that they had been corrupted by unspecified foreign influence and “slimeballs.”
“I’m ashamed of certain members of the court, absolutely ashamed for not having the courage to do what’s right for our country,” the president said. He suggested that Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, whom he nominated during his first term, were “an embarrassment to their families” because they sided with the majority against him.
The Trump administration has consistently criticized and sometimes defied lower court rulings that it does not like. Mr. Trump’s bitingly personal attacks on the highest court in the land on Friday appeared intended to undercut the authority of the justices to rein him in and highlighted his lack of deference to the constitutional separation of powers.
At the same time, Mr. Trump gave no indication that he would defy the court’s ruling, pivoting quickly to impose new tariffs using other, more constrained, mechanisms that are still available to him.
He said one set of trade powers, known as Section 122, would be used to impose an across-the-board 10 percent tariff, starting on Tuesday. And he said he would use another set of powers, Section 301, to open investigations into unfair trade practices, which could yield additional tariffs.
The president’s remarks on Friday were revealing about how he views Supreme Court justices, not as independent legal thinkers appointed for their expertise or as a constitutional check on his administration, but as appointees who should be loyal to him.
Until now, the court had been remarkably deferential to him, repeatedly allowing policies that have been challenged in court to go into effect while litigation proceeds. Friday was the first time the court has issued a final ruling on the legality of a piece of Mr. Trump’s agenda.
“Before the entire world, it was the president’s most spectacular display yet of his utter disrespect for the Constitution and his contempt for the Supreme Court of the United States,” J. Michael Luttig, a conservative retired federal appeals court judge, said in an interview.
And while the president ripped into the justices who opposed him, he lavished praise on those who sided with his administration.
“I’m so proud of him,” Mr. Trump said of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, whom he referred to as a “genius.”
Mr. Trump said the three justices who ruled in his favor were “happily invited” to his State of the Union address next week.
The others?
“They’re barely invited,” he said. “Honestly, I couldn’t care less if they come.”
Legal experts said Mr. Trump’s broadside against the court was remarkable.
“In my professional career, I don’t remember any president attacking judges in quite so personal way,” said Jeremy Fogel, a retired federal judge and former executive director of the Federal Judicial Center. “Presidents of both parties have been unhappy with major decisions. That’s not unusual and sometimes they’ll express pretty extreme disappointment about what the court did, but the name-calling in my experience is unprecedented.”
Q: What does “lap dog” mean in slang?
A: A weak person who is controlled by someone else. His coworkers regarded him as the boss’s lap dog.
Trump exactly wants fools and lap dogs on the Court.
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People who voted for Trump wanted him to behave like a child, as he is doing. His track record promised he would, and they voted for him. Pretty sad comment about thinking adults. They’d vote for him again, I bet millions write him in in 2028.
Let’s hope all those deplorables know enough to vote for Vance instead.
I don’t think most people have a grasp on just how large the US is and how that alone guarantees no military dictatorship. they don’t have enough guys and never will. Old Corn Pop™ and his box of parrots are going sideways and crashing out.
perhaps you missed a few days of amerikan history classes.
if size guaranteed that, i guess USSR and spanish empire all fiction in the encyclopedia of MAGA
I had a great pal in Charleston SC who owned the local cigar shop and sexy martini bar upstairs from it. He was CIA, who had been in Poland shipyards helping to stir up trouble with Lech Walesa in the late 80s……………He would hold court in his cigar shop……..with many smart folks……..debating and discussing important topics. He always said the USA would go the way of a military dictatorship the next time she crumbles…………….which Lincoln really carried out the last go around. of course this is all a work of fiction. so don’t taze me bro.
The law as we know it is a system of orderly corruption and official impudence. The judges sit atop this and earn good livings for posing, giving an air of propriety to all this disgusting nonsense. They obtain their positions in the first place by a long course of sycophancy, starting I suppose in preschool, where they notice that they have a talent for sucking up, and decide to exploit it. (I was like that too, but I didn’t choose to make a career of it.)
I think if you look at it objectively, Trump was gentle in his description of them.
In America’s case, all this corruption began with Lincoln and your Civil War. You could of course take it back a lot further, to the imposition of the full feudal system in England in year 1066 by William the Bastard, or even to the founding of modern Christianity by the Emperor Constantine in about the year 400.
The corruption got worse with the suspension of payment in gold during World War Two, and the bogus economics patched up by Keynes to excuse the corrupt system initiated by President Franklin Roosevelt. I do realize that they were trying to avert Communism, but there wouldn’t have been a threat of Communism if ordinary people hadn’t absorbed the false morality of Christianity, which Communism just took over and tried to implement. The lies go back a long way.
I wish Trump well, but I don’t think you can reform such a corrupt system without bloodshed. Government consists essentially of soldiers, who live by the use of force, and priests, who live by telling lies. The lies that ordinary people accept form the official religion. That is Education. It gets further from reality with every passing year. Reform will only come when the soldiers overthrow the priests and impose a period of rule by force instead of by fraud. It’s sad but true.
of course it’s true. amazing how naive the modern amerikans really are. all these bootlickers, blue and red uniparty, useful idiots……to the warmongering priests and soldiers……..
U r nuts or vague or both so there was no corruption in the US B 4 Lincoln? Haha perhaps said in a lame attempt of comedy
Trump is China, Russia and North Koreas greatest asset against the United States.
A deranged imbecile that belongs in prison and/or held accountable for sedition!
The harm Trump is doing to our nation to benefit himself is staggering and disgusting!
The irony of Trump’s remarks is beside the point. This is a national political figure denigrating the institutions that lend his office legitimacy. I have trouble imaging a more destructive force operating in the U.S. than this horse’s ass–for whom I voted as a counter to the left’s authoritarianism. Hah-hah on me.
Totally disgraceful and highly un-presidential. Of course, taco could care less as he is the self appointed king.
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i really think trump is not ok mentally!
after congress re-elections in 2026 i think he will be impeached by dems + some repubs voited
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Regarding lapdogs is not trump the biggest lap dog for the oil coal and natural gas industries plus the warmongering military industrial complex?
Trump in his anger has announced 15% global tariffs. He is going to prove the adage “I can be stupid longer than you can remain solvent”.
Well they certainly are not “Foolish” as the education and history of their work, must speak for them to even be considered, once nominated. Which brings up the Foolish part, and that’s Trump Nominated Them!!!
He’s losing me, and it has speeded up of late. Duck Tape for just a couple weeks, could work wonders, and set precedent, To Keep Quiet!!!
It’s not widely reported, but when he talks, the sound actually comes from the other end.
Now that the air has been cleared, the Justices can focus on doing their jobs.
Where can China find the better than this POTUS?
Trump’s rant is disgusting, if unsurprising.
And while he wasn’t president at the time, Chuck Schumer called out justices by name and suggested they would “pay the price.”
“I want to tell you Gorsuch. I want to tell you Kavanaugh…
You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the
price! You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with
these awful decisions!”
They’re all 85 IQ wannabe thugs. If someone actually stood up to Trump, or Schumer, or any of them, they’d all wet their pants.
Haha and u are charitable with giving them 85 IQ they are puppets for big business both parties
They actually look about average… 95-105
Unfortunately, average is dumb as shit.
“Released the whirlwind”
Yeah Chucky, I’m sure they’re quivering in their boots after all the punishments you’ve meted out for all the other treasonous things they’ve done.
The democrats are a goddam disgrace.
I highly doubt that insulting Supreme court justices is going to be helpful to him in the next case.
And I am assuming u mean the pictures of trump in the files AKA evidence of criminality
That (fools and lap dogs … to the constitution)is a pre-Magna-Carta very kingly position. The Dems should drop the Donkey right now in favor of a No-Kings Symbol as a (real GOP/Democrat/Independent) unifying measure in the Nov 2026 and 2028 elections. Should Trump run for vice president in 2028, Obama should do the same.
“Dems should drop the Donkey right now in favor of a No-Kings Symbol”
That would just make it even more obvious to voters that their entire identity and raison d’être is (and has been for the last 10 years) that they aren’t Trump.
The worse he gets, the more effective that platform is.
And that war in Iran that is going to be bad and whom is the earth’s enemy
My answer trump as the front man for big coal oil natural gas and the military industrial complex
There’s a crowd jostling to get their arms up his ass to sock puppet him.
It is unreal weird for a President to act this way. Trump takes the Cake when it comes to inanity.
It’s like when Rob Reiner died. Trump was super uncool about that. It’s deeply unnerving.
Trophy winner in insanity as well
Meanwhile, the troops near Iran got steak and lobster for dinner last night. For some of them, that will be all they get for dying because their president is a pedo being blackmailed by Israel.
I suspect no blackmail was necessary. He genuinely appreciated the bribes and young party favors.
A wag the dog scenario and this war is super dumb and not necessary we should be minding our own business
Israel gets what Israel wants.
Jesus Christ, I think Trump’s an asshole, then I read the anti-Semites on this website. Enough. It’s all yours, Shedlock. There’s not enough of value here to bring me back.
Where were jewish people mentioned? Israel? Is Israel only jews? Is Israel only jews?
STFU with your pearl clutching.
Criticism of Israel is not inherently anti-Semitic any more than criticism of Islamic countries is inherently Islamaphobic or criticism of Barack Obama or Clarence Thomas is inherently racist. You want a world in which Israel can never be criticized in polite society, but that is not the world we live in. When Israel does horrible and even evil things (like they have in Gaza and the West Bank recently), people will rightly call them out for it. You are free to offer a defense for Israel’s actions, but you can’t shut down the debate by censoring people for expressing a different viewpoint.
Go find somewhere posting free news online with higher standards than Mish, then bring us your links, “Mr. Erudite”
I think that now is the time for a musical interlude:
To be followed by the great Bobby Darin’s Splish Splash
Well it gives me hope that SCOTUS will uphold states rights to conduct elections as they see fit. We don’t want him thinking he can do anything he pleases without bringing the election to some sort of crisis.
Don’t know if these people have cooked their brains on propaganda so much that they don’t know this, or if they just expect everyone to maintain the lie with them.
Some Trump apologists struggle to comprehend that Americans are the ones paying Trump’s tariffs
https://www.mediamatters.org/tariffs-trade/some-trump-apologists-struggle-comprehend-americans-are-ones-paying-trumps-tariffs
Innumeracy is rampant in this country. It’s terrifying.
Did you mean the US consumer is unknownly supporting slave labor, intellectual property theft and governments that want to wish nothing but destruction of their neighbors. Every coin has two sides.
I’m sure you could have said something dumber, but I am at a loss to think of what.
Willful stupidity has never been more in fashion in the USA than it is today
Trump is right. There were 3 “fools and lap dogs” opposing the tariff ruling.
And we’re supposed to worry about unhinged Ayatollahs in Iran, says Vance ?
Who is unhinged ? And in possession of nukes?
The Ayatollahs are probably the only people left who eschew nukes as immoral and contrary to natural & divine law.
Don’t Be Fooled By the Corrupt Court’s Tariff Decision
Josh Marshall & I have the same view of the corrupt & craven John Roberts, & his corrupt & craven right-wing Supreme Court majority.
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/crosspost-josh-marshall-dont-be-fooled
Oh he’s right for once, that’s why we have Trump v. United States (2024), Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024), Trump v. CASA (2025): Limits on Injunctions, etc., ad infin. That SCOTUS foolishly, stupidly, unconstitutionally created this monster by strengthening the exec branch & reducing checks on presidential authority is undeniable. So it’s almost laughable that the 3 amongst those who have pushed this injustice & transgression on the American public now take a stand on this. Not only do we have the worst leader in American history right now but also some of the most partisan & cronyist justices in that court ever.
Loper Bright actually does the opposite of what you say, it reduces the authority of the executive branch rather than automatically giving deference to its opinions.
Whatever you think about the Supreme Court, I think at this point it is one of the only things putting any limits at all on Trump.
Aren’t there some anodyne crimes they can cite to impeach him?
They don’t have to cite one of his major crimes like violating the UN charter ratified into US law, about not invading other countries or killing people without defensive justification. Or his Epstein play dates. Fine. We know the controlled opposition doesn’t want to open a can of worms they help fill and refill. Just charge him with jaywalking. The man is full of shit and *unnecessary* drama. It’s tiresome.
Completely unbecoming the office and as much a “laughing stock” as Biden or Kamala.
I wish I could care less. But I need social security. At this rate, I see cat food in my future.
They’ll be impeaching him weekly next year but not removing. I’d cheer gridlock, but leaving the current fiscal trajectory unchanged is suboptimal.
Yeah… I have little hope the bastards will do anything good. Just more kayfabe. But, while Rome burns, I hold a tiny wish for a little less circus.
There are multiple, legitimate reasons for impeaching him now. But his lapdogs refuse to do so and the dems don’t have the votes. Come next January I am certain he will be impeached by the House. But unfortunately I don’t believe the Senate will have the votes to make it stick. Would Vance continue a lot of his policies? Probably, but Congress might not abdicate so many of its responsibilities.
Yes, of course there are crimes they could impeach him for, especially war crimes and violations of international human rights laws. However, the Uniparty knows that if Donald Trump can be impeached for war crimes, it could happen to any President. If they are going to impeach him for anything, it will be something unique to Donald Trump (like January 6) that would not set a precedent for future Uniparty officials.
However, impeachment won’t remove him from office unless he is convicted by 2/3 of the Senate, which has never happened to a President and seems very unlikely.
100% AGREE with all that. i’d just like to state, democracy works. the people are truly represented as to their wishes.
Cat food is unaffordable.
Trump may want to review who referred Amy Comey Barrett and Kavanaugh to him?
I think Kavanaugh sided with Alito and Thomas on this one.
Mitch McConnell and SC Justice Kennedy, respectively.
He used to listen to the Federalist Society on potential Supreme Court justices, but has already made it clear he won’t be doing that anymore.
Trump doesn’t want a great Supreme Court justice, or even a good one. He wants a puppet who will do exactly what he wants after he has given them a lifetime appointment to the court. I would not be shocked if he appoints someone like Pam Bondi to the next vacancy. We all better hope no justices step down or die before he leaves office.