‘A Shell Of Their Former Selves’: Trump Unloads On Supreme Court After Spate Of Defeats
President Donald Trump blasted the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, using his social media platform to voice strong disapproval of several major judicial decisions on voting procedures, trade policies, and immigration.
Writing on Truth Social, Trump slammed the court’s recent ruling concerning mail-in voting, arguing that the decision arrived too late and harmed the Republican Party.
“Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give, and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-In voting ‘disaster,'” Trump wrote. He highlighted the dissents of Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, calling them “legends both” who “strongly disagreed with this horrible, highly political, ruling.”
Trump expanded his criticism beyond election administration, pointing to court rulings regarding trade policy and constitutional law. He claimed that the court’s stance on tariffs “will be costing the U.S.A., for many years to come, Trillions and Trillions of Dollars.”
He added that “They didn’t even state, ‘money paid does not have to be paid back,’ much to the benefit of entities that truly hate our Country, and have been RIPPING IT OFF FOR YEARS, unnecessarily costing us, immediately, Billions of Dollars.”
The president also targeted the bench’s rulings on birthright citizenship, labeling the outcome “a complete and total disaster for America” and asserting that it creates “irreparable and unrecoverable harm.”
Throughout the message, Trump directed personal frustration at the composition of the court, arguing that several members had failed to demonstrate resolve under political pressure.
“These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves,” he wrote, warning that the bench’s broader body of decisions would be remembered negatively in legal history.
Trump concluded the post by defending his decision to speak out against the nation’s highest court, stating that while the public remarks might carry political consequences, he considered the statement necessary.
“It is not easy for me to write this criticism of the United States Supreme Court – it will likely cost me dearly for years to come – but I feel it my obligation and duty, as President, to do so for the America we love,” the statement read.