There’s a war in Iran upending the global energy market, China is moving forces to encircle Taiwan, and the entire Department of Homeland Security — including TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard — is in shutdown as Republicans continue to kill stop-gap funding bills unless they include massive spending for ICE. With so much on his agenda, the president — who definitely is not deep in the throes of mental decline — hammered out nearly 1,000 words’ worth of a Truth Social rant about how much he hates the Supreme Court.
At a quarter to 11 at night on a Sunday.
“The decision that mattered most to me was TARIFFS!” he began, seemingly forgetting that the decision that actually mattered most to him was when Chief Justice Roberts invented a new double secret immunity that allowed Trump to bypass all the federal criminal laws he’d been indicted for breaching. After that decision cleared Trump’s path back to office, he even told the Chief Justice, “Thank you again. Thank you again. Won’t forget it.”
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[Narrator voice]: He forgot it.
“The Court knew where I stood, how badly I wanted this Victory for our Country, and instead decided to, potentially, give away Trillions of Dollars to Countries and Companies who have been taking advantage of the United States for decades,” Trump continued, allowing that adverb to strain under some crushing weight.
I want to thank Justices Alito, Thomas, and Kavanaugh for their Wisdom and Courage pertaining to the TARIFF case, and for understanding, in addition to the Law, that our “Unfriendly Competitors” should not be reimbursed and rewarded for the decades of Damage they have caused THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I will fight hard to make sure that this does not happen! The Democrats on the Court always “stick together,” no matter how strong a case is put before them — There is rarely even a minor “waver.” But Republicans do not do this. They openly disrespect the Presidents who nominate them to the highest position in the Land, a Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and go out of their way, with bad and wrongful rulings and intentions, to prove how “honest,” “independent,” and “legitimate” they are.
In normal times, suggesting that justices should respect the presidents who nominate them over honesty, independence, and legitimacy would be the biggest political story going and trigger bipartisan calls for impeachment. In 2026, it doesn’t crack the top page outside of the nation’s finest legal news sources.
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Our Country was unnecessarily RANSACKED by the United States Supreme Court, which has become little more than a weaponized and unjust Political Organization. The sad thing is, they will only get worse! They wouldn’t even call out The Rigged Presidential Election of 2020, because they said that I, as President of the United States, did not have “standing” to challenge it, and now, with time, it has been conclusively proven to be stolen
Again with the dubious adverbial deployment.
This rant proved too long for even Truth Social’s indulgence and Trump followed up with another one:
The Courts treat Republicans, and me, so unfairly, always seeming to protect those who should not be protected. They are highly politicized. Cases don’t matter, the Judge does! As an example, how is this absolutely terrible Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome “Too Late” Powell, not even allowed to be investigated for the horrible job he does? How is he allowed to be Billions of Dollars over budget, and years behind schedule, on the simple renovation of the small Federal Reserve Complex in Washington, D.C., where he created an absolute disaster
Of note, the Federal Reserve itself wanted a more modest and cheaper renovation. But appointees of the first Trump administration rejected the modern glass and steel design and demanded the more garish luxury marble plan that’s costing so much money. But that’s not stopping Trump and his embattled U.S. Attorney for D.C., Jeanine Pirro, to pursue an investigation hoping to convince Powell to resign. Pirro is trying to spin Judge Boasberg’s decision shutting down these subpoenas as breach of the separation of powers, though all he actually ruled was that the Fed had more than proven that this was all a baseless abuse of the grand jury process. In reaching his conclusion, Judge Boasberg cited, you know, Trump’s incessant social media posting where the president laid out his bad faith motives.
As Judge Boasberg wrote, “The President spent years essentially asking if no one will rid him of this troublesome Fed Chair.” He then did Henry II one better and “suggested a specific line of investigation into him, which had been proposed by a political appointee with no role in law enforcement, who hinted that it could be a way to remove Powell. The President’s appointed prosecutor promptly complied.”
You’d think that might convince Trump to ease off the posts. Or at least get his staffers to put parental controls on his socials.
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.
TDS will not show up again in the post. That’s some rookie lawyer nonsense.
Much like “prosecutor” Deranged Jack Smith, and many others, Boasberg is a disgrace, as was his predecessor, to our Legal Process, and our Highly Politicized Court System, which was just witnessed firsthand by the unfortunate and unwarranted TARIFF decision, recently handed down by the United States Supreme Court, which was a GIFT to Countries and Companies who have been “ripping off the United States of America,” for decades, at levels never seen before.
Poor Judge Howell just over here minding her business and got dragged into this somehow.
It’s too easy to brush off these posts as par for the president’s combative brand of sundowning, but it shouldn’t be normalized. He’s doubling down on the “meddlesome priest” logic that Judge Boasberg just wrote about. At the very least he’s laying the groundwork for more aggressive and explicit refusals of court orders. At worst, this is emboldening his troglodyte militia to step up the violent threats against judges.
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