segunda-feira, 23 de fevereiro de 2026

Trump threatens 'more powerful and obnoxious' tariffs

 


13.03 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/feb/23/us-dollar-stock-markets-losses-trump-global-tariff-supreme-court-news-updates

 

Trump threatens 'more powerful and obnoxious' tariffs

Donald Trump has declared that he can use tariffs in a ‘much more powerful and obnoxious way’ than he has thus far.

 

Posting on his Truth Social network, the US president again attacked the supreme court for ruling against his sweeping global tariffs last Friday – calling them ‘incompetent’.

 

He also claims the justices have ‘‘accidentally and unwittingly’ expanded his presidential powers on tariffs.

 

Trump writes:

 

The supreme court (will be using lower case letters for a while based on a complete lack of respect!*) of the United States accidentally and unwittingly gave me, as President of the United States, far more powers and strength than I had prior to their ridiculous, dumb, and very internationally divisive ruling.

 

For one thing, I can use Licenses to do absolutely “terrible” things to foreign countries, especially those countries that have been RIPPING US OFF for many decades, but incomprehensibly, according to the ruling, can’t charge them a License fee - BUT ALL LICENSES CHARGE FEES, why can’t the United States do so? You do a license to get a fee! The opinion doesn’t explain that, but I know the answer! The court has also approved all other Tariffs, of which there are many, and they can all be used in a much more powerful and obnoxious way, with legal certainty, than the Tariffs as initially used.

 

Our incompetent supreme court did a great job for the wrong people, and for that they should be ashamed of themselves (but not the Great Three!).

 

[That’s a reference to the minority of three justices who backed Trump in last week’s ruling].

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