Conservative National Review blasts 'angry toddler' Trump over Supreme Court attack

Donald Trump on Friday exploded at the Supreme Court after it voted, 6-3, that most of the sweeping global tariffs that he has been levying throughout his second term were not legal. Among the insults and invective he hurled at the Court during a press conference at the White House, he accused the justices of being under the influence of foreign interests.

"It’s my opinion that the [Supreme] Court has been swayed by foreign interests and a political movement that is far smaller than people would ever think," Trump said.

In a piece published Monday by the conservative National Review, reporter Jim Geraghty ripped into Trump's response to the Supreme Court's ruling, in particular the accusations of foreign manipulation. According to Geraghty, such allegations are the sort of thing that would have been a major scandal in any other administration, but with Trump, such things have become business as usual.

"Any other president accusing two-thirds of the Supreme Court – including two justices that he had appointed himself! – of being influenced by foreign interests would be a bombshell accusation, warranting a demand for incontrovertible evidence," Geraghty wrote. "But for Donald Trump, it was just another Friday. We’ve all gotten used it. We know it’s not normal, but it’s normal for him."

Further breaking down Trump's response, Geraghty derided Trump's claim that the argument in favor of his authority to levy the tariffs was sound. He specifically argued that the president had wrecked any legitimate claims that he had due to the "ludicrously capricious ways" in which he decided to create new tariffs. This included hitting Canada with new tariffs over a political candidate's ad that he did not like, and targeting Switzerland because he disliked their president's tone.

Geraghty also singled out a comment from Trump's Friday response in which he claimed that the three dissenting arguments in the ruling were so strong, "there is no way that anyone can argue against them." Such a counterargument, Geraghty noted, is exactly what the majority opinion ruling against the tariffs was doing.

"It’s all so predictable, and so tiresome," Geraghty concluded. "The president may have no shame, but the rest of us are embarrassed at the sight of country’s commander-in-chief throwing a tantrum on par with an angry toddler, furiously throwing out baseless accusations and whining about how unfair everything is when the judicial branch checks to see what the Constitution says and what the Founders intended. If you want to enact or raise tariffs on goods from other countries, make the case to the legislative branch."

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