Trump Claims 'Absolute Right' to Impose Tariffs as He Rages Against Courts in 950-Word Late Night Truth Social Tirade
Source: MEDIAite
Mar 16th, 2026, 7:09 am
President Donald Trump launched a late-night attack on the U.S. Supreme Court and the politicized judiciary more generally on Sunday, insisting he retains the absolute right to impose tariffs despite a major ruling that struck down large parts of his administrations trade policy. In a Truth Social screed approaching 1,000 words, the president accused the court of hurting the country and insisted his administration would pursue alternative legal routes to continue imposing import duties.
The Courts treat Republicans, and me, so unfairly, always seeming to protect those who should not be protected. They are highly politicized. Cases dont matter, the Judge does! he began. The president went on to rage at Judge James Boasberg for having nixed efforts by the Department of Justice to investigate the Federal Reserve, a move that Fed chair Jerome Powell slammed as triggered by his refusal to lower interest rates despite mounting pressure from the White House.
He wrote: I strongly criticized Jerome Too Late for his horrible performance throughout his tenure, which is either gross incompetence, total dishonesty, or both, and, in return for this well justified criticism, get viciously and wrongfully blamed by, as usual, a Wacky, Nasty, Crooked, and totally Out of Control Judge, named James Boasberg, a man who suffers from the highest level of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), and has been after my people, and me, for years.
Boasberg, Trump claimed, displayed open, flagrant, and extreme partisan bias and contempt against Republicans and the Trump Administration. The president also rounded on the Supreme Court, which ruled in February that the administration had improperly relied on a 1977 emergency powers law to justify sweeping tariffs imposed last year on goods from countries around the world. The decision dealt a significant blow to Trumps aggressive trade agenda, which has relied heavily on tariffs as a central tool of economic policy.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-claims-absolute-right-to-impose-tariffs-as-he-rages-against-courts-in-950-word-late-night-truth-social-tirade/
This is ALL the result of John "Dr. Frankenstein" Roberts, whose creature is now out of control and coming for him.
Women (Mary Shelley) knew the deal.
sop
(18,420 posts)spoiled toddler throws a temper tantrum stage... He thinks he will act out and people will do what he wants just to appease him.. It worked before, but that act got tired a long time ago. Trump is a one trick pony - he will keep on throwing tantrums, threatening, and ranting, but that won't work any more. Time for him to leave the stage..
gab13by13
(32,091 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,530 posts)Whoever is writing this shit for him should be the first on the stand at The Hague.
popsdenver
(2,197 posts)he isn't writing alot of this crap......My Bet is Stephen Miller, the next Tyrant in Chief......
twodogsbarking
(18,530 posts)tanyev
(49,172 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(20,851 posts)and uphold the Rule of Law and the US Constitution.
Donald Trump is NOT deserving of of any respect from the American people or of the World. He is doing a bang up job in pissing off everyone when he does not get his way. What a broken man he is.
Ray Bruns
(6,273 posts)Tariffs to be implemented that Congress couldnt implement?
azureblue
(2,724 posts)something that will justify him declaring martial law. He found out that ICE protests were not enough to declare, so he's hoping that Iran will attack the Continental US, so he can declare.
He is in a race to take over the country before The Epstein files, the elections, and his Iran blunder catch up with him. He knows that if he fails, he has no place to escape to anymore. He is a desperate despot. He is trying to gum up the works with lawsuits and appeals, and distractions - his usual tactic to get his ass out of a corner. His allies are abandoning him. But the tide is turning against him, and he feels it, so expect him to do something outrageous.
Up to now, He has relied on the GOP to cover his ass, but they are sick of his crap, and they all see that Trump will take the entire party down with him, so they are starting to distance themselves. Even Christian Mike is looking for an exit - he knows he is making a fool of himself protecting Trump.
IOW folks, we are headed to a fustercluck... We, as defenders of the Constitution, should double down our efforts to jail Trump. Now is not the time to let up.. Keep on needling him, and exposing the pedophile and his cult.. And make certain that he suffers the consequences of his own actions.
OldBaldy1701E
(11,018 posts)Just the idea that he thinks he can do this should be enough to mobilize people to remove that asshat and his cronies by any means necessary.
But...
Multichromatic
(134 posts)but I kind of want Trumps' infantile rage to cause him to start arresting the Republican supreme court justices. Maybe then they could get a clue that they made Trump an unaccountable dictator!
BumRushDaShow
(168,945 posts)He'll order Bondi to start DOJ investigations of them.
Problem is, ETHICS investigations HAVE been done and we know the guilty parties, but they were GOPers, so...
lastlib
(28,123 posts)...a little above his turkey neck. And hope it's a gusher.
That's just me..........
AZLD4Candidate
(6,766 posts)Cases dont matter. Judges do - quote from asshole
Bengus81
(10,126 posts)We all know what these BS rants are really about...........
mountain grammy
(28,980 posts)Grins
(9,427 posts)All the raving psychopaths have at least one.
BattleRow
(2,339 posts)Cue the ketchup bottles...
Baitball Blogger
(52,237 posts)Tighten your seatbelt. It's going to get bumpier after the midterms.
republianmushroom
(22,268 posts)Jesus, trump is stupid.
LilElf70
(1,543 posts)love toopid. It's their MO!!!!!
republianmushroom
(22,268 posts)Bayard
(29,466 posts)He reminds me of the kid in the grocery cart--screaming because his mom won't let him have a candy bar.
I hope he pisses off the Supremes mightily.
Quanto Magnus
(1,341 posts)It's basically admitting their argument has no basis in fact, therefore..... TDS....
LudwigPastorius
(14,621 posts)relogic
(185 posts)The ramblings of a team of regime propagandists who actually control all the policies and memes that could never otherwise enter the lazy-minded few brain cell of the dictator wannabe.
louis-t
(24,606 posts)He's gonna do it illegally.
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,047 posts)Kavanaughs dissent argued that the presidents backup plan might succeed, but the majority didnt preapprove it.
MSNow : No, the US Supreme Court didnât say trump has âabsolute right to charge TARIFFSâ differently
— Joe Public (@joepublic.bsky.social) 2026-03-16T17:05:56.633Z
www.ms.now/deadline-whi...
https://www.ms.now/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/no-the-supreme-court-didnt-say-trump-has-absolute-right-to-charge-tariffs-differently
Its true that Justice Brett Kavanaughs dissent said that the Courts decision might not prevent Presidents from imposing most if not all of these same sorts of tariffs under other statutory authorities. But that musing only represented the view of the three dissenters on the nine-member court: Kavanaugh and Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
In his majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts stressed that the court wasnt weighing in on those other authorities.
Roberts wrote in a footnote that Kavanaughs dissent surmises that the President could impose most if not all of the tariffs at issue under statutes other than IEEPA. The chief justice wrote that those other authorities contain various combinations of procedural prerequisites, required agency determinations, and limits on the duration, amount, and scope of the tariffs they authorize. Roberts concluded that the court doesnt speculate on hypothetical cases not before us.
So, contrary to the presidents social media complaint, the court didnt preapprove his tariffing backup plan, which is the subject of new litigation.
The high court could eventually be called on to settle that new litigation, as it did the IEEPA case. But the majority didnt predetermine the outcome of future litigation in that case.
lastlib
(28,123 posts)WE The People said "F*CK that sh*t! in 1776! And again in 1787. And saying it EVERY day since!
Figarosmom
(11,588 posts)The Supremes said nope you don't have that authority. They said there MAY BE other ways BUT THEY REQUIRE PREREQUISITE WORK which he doesn't seem to understand. Big words are a problem for this guy.
Marie Marie
(11,214 posts)in his stupid, ill-planned war. If he had the power right now, 1000% tariffs on any country who won't bail him out of his Strait of Hormuz fiasco.
Oh and, nobody should ever say NO to him on anything at any time.
republianmushroom
(22,268 posts)milk of human kindness to its fellow man.
DBoon
(24,928 posts)Is he on amphetamines?