Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, ushered in under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, were unlawfully imposed
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, ushered in under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, were unlawfully imposed. Trump had used the act to charge huge levies on countries, including 50% on India, which was later reduced, and 34% on China.
By Friday night, the president posted on Truth Social that he signed an executive order enabling him to bypass Congress and impose a 10% tax on imports from around the world. “It is my Great Honor to have just signed, from the Oval Office, a Global 10% Tariff on all Countries, which will be effective almost immediately,” Trump wrote.
Less than 24 hours later, Trump said he was bumping up the tariffs to 15% “based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday.”
He is, for some stupid fucking reason, allowed to impose tarrifs for 150 days.
Then it goes to congress to vote on whether to keep them, and they likely won’t.
What a fucking asshole
Where does the 150 days come from? FFS, we had nearly a full year before SCOTUS struck down the shit he started last year.
Ya’ll Americans are cooked. A national sales tax that a crazy bastard will steal for himself and you don’t have guns to do anything about it.
This is Trump’s “power move”.
We know it’s illegal. He knows it’s illegal. He wants everyone to know that he knows it’s illegal, and he’ll do it anyway. What are you gonna do? Yell at him?
He will continue to escalate, he takes great delight in “sticking it” to anyone who disagrees with him. There is no line that he won’t cross.
He takes even more delight in “sticking it” to people who AGREE with him. As a rapist, he rapes anybody he can any way he can.
I think it’s kind of Legal? Smoot -Hawley from 1934-ish was never taken off the books. I cant remember if that’s the one he’s using for this, but it’s like that. There’s a never-used vestigial law that lets him do up to 15% for 150 days.
As much of a known-destroyer of America he is, this is Congress failing to do it’s bare minimum job of holding the purse strings. They could stop him tomorrow and we would be better off if everyone realized thst
Edit: this one isn’t smoot-hawley (1930), sorry. Trade act of 1974. 15%, 150 days and a lot of exemptions under section 122. Congress should still do it job
This time is technically legal because of Hawley, but it should go back to when he started this dumb shit in the first place. We’ll see if we can get a Federal Judge to smack this down in the next week.
All these companies collecting this money just need to fucking stop, and say “Fine then sue me” to the WH, but then of course we know they’ll be flooded with ICE. Trump has a private army now that needs to be dealt with in order to stop all this shit.
Honestly, I wish they’d all ban together and say we aren’t collecting any of this. The problem is that they individually bend the knee, comply in advance, etc.
So, basically, starving the peeps of the US, while, every other country, moves out of the US trade.
It’ll boost domestic production!! /s
So did he just blow up all of those trade deals he made to spite the SC, or are all those countries exempt from the 15%? Based on the UK response quoted in the article, it seems they have similar questions…
No one knows. This entire thing is a temper tantrum.
He’s apparently applying these tariffs under a different law than the one they used previously, which does explicitly allow the president to apply temporary (150 days) tariffs of up to 15%. So you would assume this is meant to replace the tariffs the SC struck down.
But he’s also stated that the previous tariffs are going to stay in effect, just under a different legal theory. So in his mind, it’s possible that he thinks this 15% is on top of the existing amounts, and he’s literally just tariffing the whole world harder because he’s mad about a decision by his judiciary.
Then again, maybe he’s just a dementia-ridden old idiot who can’t keep his own bullshit straight for more than 30 seconds.
I 100% agree, especially with the dementia part. But I also think that his handlers are goading him towards actions that destabilize the US and therefore drastically break the Image the rest of the world has of the US. Not that it was a good image, but it was one of power. We have rapidly moved from one of the 3 main powers fighting for control of the world to a absolute mess plagued by fascists.
Who is going to actually enforce these?
What if people just refuse to collect anything, whether it’s his 10 or 15 percent?
And tell anyone asking questions to take it up with the Supremes.
Customs?
Exactly. ICE goons, really. The better question is who do people think will enforce the supreme court ruling?
Mutherfucker was counting on tariffs to offset government revenue after he cut taxes on himself and all his wealthy friends. Which is exactly what made them illegal. What does he think this next round is going to accomplish?
He also needs that revenue to personally enrich himself from taxpayer money. He gave himself $10 billion for creating his Board of “peace”.
The population of the USA as of Feb 2026 is 342.3 million people. This means that trump personally took $29.21 from every single American living today (including newborn children and aging senior citizens) and put that money in his personal bank account.
Its things like this that I cannot understand how poverty stricken trump supporters are still okay with him and his actions.
*Bored of Peace
Board of Piss
Sic semper taco
So was this, like an hour ago, 10%? Must be based on sound cost-benefit analysis…
It took them that long to explain to him that 15 was higher than 10
Wow, fastest time on record!
Yes. Please keep it up Trump. We need more time to be in forced diversification from the US.
Fun fact, in Canada our total exports have actually been going up, including our total exports to the US. But as a preventage of our exports, exports to the US have shrunk because our exports to the rest of the world have grown faster.
We should send Trump a gift basket.
Lol, I have a real question, does anything actually happen when Trump makes these outlandish terrif statement?
More people get convinced to look business outside the US.
Yes taxes are collected from Americans.
WHAT? An extra 15% tariff on all this stuff that I don’t export to america!!! Oh no, oh dear!
Anyways a real man would’ve put a 1111% tariff on everything. Once again the orange child rapist takes the easy way out!!!
20000000% Tariff!!!
