Trump: "I am allowed to cut off any and all trade…I can destroy the trade, I can destroy the country, I'm even allowed to impose a foreign country destroying embargo…I can do anything I want to do to them…I'm allowed to destroy the country, but I can't charge a little fee."

if trump wants to raise tariffs, why doesn't he just go through the republican-controlled congress?

Great summary and accurately predicted Trump's press conference.

The “fuck your feelings crowd” is really feeling some things today.

Learning recently that this lady has some sort of bloodlust for sea lions has been really funny. Somehow on brand but really funny.

It’s the meme. You’re mad at the meme. I get it (not really)

“.. Gimme my money, Trump.” @rexhuppke.bsky.social @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

So Georgia sent a letter of reprimand? That’s it? newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

“We were stunned [about the prescience] for a while, but we’ve really gotten to the point where it’s really sad. It’s just sad how predictable and lame and obvious and wrong it all is. Fascism is just a total fail in the end.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

Don't believe Trump's hype that other statutes give him sweeping tariff-imposing authority at his whim.. As @LawofRuby.bsky.social noted, this CJ Roberts shows those other statutes don't have the same unilateral power. buff.ly/Fix4Eys

Tesla made suppliers tool up for 120k units/year of this turd, it sold a third of that in year one, and then sales fell by 50% in year two. Biggest flop in modern automotive history, and it isn't close.

lol

Trump on Gorsuch and Barrett: "I think their decision was terrible. I think it's an embarrassment to their families, if you want to know the truth. The two of them."

In October 2024, the Georgia secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after receiving numerous reports from residents across several counties saying they’d received partially prefilled absentee ballot applications from Musk’s America PAC. trib.al/n6hAZOC

$10B for Trump's "Board of Peace" $10B for Trump's IRS lawsuit $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation" $135M for Trump's golf outings The Grifter-in-Chief knows no bounds.

What problem is Trump's new global 10% tariff meant to solve? If it's about leverage, ask: How much leverage do you get from a tariff that disappears in 150 days? If it's onshoring: Who builds new factories based on tariff that disappear before the factory is built? It's a tax. That's all it is.

NEW: Virginia Dem legislators have passed their new 10-1 congressional map targeting 4 Republicans. Gov. Spanberger will likely sign it soon. It would take effect for 2026 if voters pass it in an April 21 referendum (litigation pending). Interactive map+data: davesredistricting.org/join/8560023...

I'm sorry, the libs are getting CARDINAL DOLAN in the national divorce?

NEW: Natasha Korecki at NBC reports that in light of the SCOTUS tariff ruling, Gov. Pritzker sent President Donald Trump an invoice of $8.6 billion.

Tulsi Gabbard going to show up as the FBI raids John Roberts office?

It remains astounding how unfaithfully the media covers Trump’s ramblings day to day. We’re a decade into this — and his rambling gets worse — and yet the coverage continues to portray his public appearances as if they’re coherent.

We are so close to this dementia addled pos dropping the n-word at the podium. The filter is almost completely gone.

A reminder that the White House stacks the briefing room with zombie sycophants, then Trump calls on them. These are not actual journalist.

Congrats to this Make-a-Wish Foundation child for getting this moment in the spotlight, and using it to claim that Trump's economy has somehow been thriving this past year.

Q: You've mentioned multiple times foreign influence over the Supreme Court. Do you have evidence of that? TRUMP: You're gonna find out

Trump sounds like a psychopath right now. “I’m allowed to destroy a country, but I can’t charge them one dollar.” WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS THIS?

Oh great, now he wants a trophy for reading. No Donald, you get personal pan pizzas like everyone else.

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump accelerated his assault on the federal judiciary Thursday by accusing “certain” Supreme Court justices of being “unpatriotic and disloyal” by striking down most of his tariffs. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump has now called on multiple foreign reporters and right-wing hacks while largely ignoring most major American media outlets in the room.

Trump is very confused that the law allows him to embargo a country but not… extort a country.

Trump says he’s signing an executive order to implement a 10% global tariff after his Supreme Court loss. Doubling down on stupid. Typical.

Does Trump make the posts, or do the posts written by someone else tell him what to do?

Sarah Huckabee Sanders' plan to build a huge mega-prison in rural Arkansas has drawn major opposition, with some residents saying it's made them think differently about incarceration in the face of organizing. Now that's bleeding into a local election, as candidates vow to fight the governor. NEW:

Lutnick looks unusually sad today. Probably misses his old neighbor Jeffrey

If Kavanaugh doesn’t like “Kavanaugh stops” he’s gonna love “Kavanaugh Tariffs.” :)

Even some of the SAVE America Act’s cosponsors are misguided about the bill’s identification requirements for registration, mistakenly believing a state driver’s license compliant with the 2005 REAL ID Act would be sufficient. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Allow me to translate: So basically, Trump is going to ignore the Supreme Court ruling on tariffs. You’re welcome.

"One more time: Not a landslide."

Trump hours after a very underwhelming GDP report and a bad inflation report: "This country is booming. It's booming because of tariffs"

"I'm allowed to destroy the country but I'm not allowed to charge $1," Trump explains (accurately).

Congrats to the small business owner who filed the suit here and has now been denounced by the president as a "sleaze bag" controlled by foreign interests.

Q - Why can’t you just work with Congress on tariffs. Trump - “Because I don’t have to.”

Trump destroys any last lingering vestigial pretense of Kavanaug’s legitimacy by singling him out for a public belly rub for dissenting against the constitution.

Trump’s Brett Kavanaugh glazing should really make people think about what a fucking toadie Brett Kavanaugh is

Trump announces a new 10% global tariff. Happy midterms, GOP.

Trump just said the justices who ruled against him “are a disgrace to our nation” who are “fools, lapdogs” and “very unpatriotic.”

He should definitely keep attacking them.

A point I’ve been making a lot is that the tariffs are 1) the policy most personally important to Trump 2) the least popular policy with the American people according to polling 3) substantively destructive and incoherent 4) genuinely opposed by large swaths of conservative constituencies.

The Supreme Court tried to save him from himself, but he's too stupid to grab the life preserver.

Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."