Joe Rogan, who endorsed Donald Trump in the 2024 election over Kamala Harris, recently said he has trouble sleeping as a result of the current administration's "madness."
On his show, one of the world's most popular podcasters appeared to hit the admin, including in connection with its threats against Iran.
Rogan said, "It's overwhelming me. Sometimes at night time I can't wind down. There's too much news. It's too much f------ madness. We're about to go to war with Iran."
He then asked, "How far does it go?... What’s happening?"
Supreme Court Justices may be fearing for their lives after Donald Trump's response to their legal smackdown, according to a Jan. 6 investigator.
Temidayo Aganga-Williams, an attorney who served as an investigator for the House Jan. 6 committee, appeared on MS NOW over the weekend, where he was asked about Trump's response to the Supreme Court ruling that limited the president's power to tack on new tariffs on a whim.
According to Aganga-Williams, Trump went personal because he nominated these justices. But there could be dangerous consequences, he warned.
"It'salways about the person. Andhere I think what's stark is thathe cannot hide behind whoappointed them. These are folksthat he appointed, that hepicked, that he shook theirhands and nominated them andespoused how great they are.And even they came down againsthim. So he has to go down toattacking them personally,which I think is incredibly,incredibly dangerous becauseit's one thing to say a judgegot it wrong," the lawyer said. "When you attackthe person, you suggest thatthe way to rectify this is withthat person. And in a world ofpolitical violence, I think weget closer and closer toteaching the American peoplethat what they have to do torectify their needs is not gothrough institutions, butinstead something far moredangerous. And I think that'sthe path we're down."
Donald Trump's reaction to the Supreme Court smacking down his signature initiative upset "all nine" justices and will give the conservative high court "more freedom" to defy the president's wishes in upcoming cases, according to a Republican strategist.
Appearing on MS NOW's PoliticsNation this weekend, Republican strategist Susan del Percio, who has a history of working with Republican candidates and in Rudy Giuliani's administration, was asked if Trump's response to the Supreme Court would fly with the nation's highest jurists. Trump said he was ashamed and disappointed with Republicans who ruled against him, and said they lacked courage and loyalty.
Asked, "Willthis pass with them?" the GOP insider replied, "I don't think so."
She then continued:
"I mean,I'm just reminded of the oldsaying, you never pick a fightwith someone who buys ink bythe barrel. So if you fastforward it to 2026, it's whywould he pick this fight withthe Supreme Court when there'sso many other cases in front ofit? And frankly, I think itgives the Supreme Court nowmore chance to, more freedom, tofeel less beholden to Donald Trump because this is upsetting.This upsets all nine of them.No one likes to see thepresident do this. Frankly, I'dlike to see all nine decide notto go to the state of the unionon Tuesday."
Last week, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) described the idea of “nuking the filibuster” – a procedural rule that allows senators to block a vote – “something that doesn't have a future,” but on Saturday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) revolted against the notion, arguing on behalf of eliminating the rule as a means to forward the Trump administration’s agenda.
“I understand why there's a reluctance to end the filibuster because, as Republicans and conservatives, we realize that our ability in the minority to stop awful legislation put forward by Democrats and the socialists in their party... we would have been down a far more destructive path a lot earlier were it not for the filibuster,” Johnson said during an appearance Saturday on Fox News.
“The problem though is times have changed. Democrats have already shown their cards, they've already purged the two members that prevented Democrats from ending the filibuster when they were last in this position. We know they'll nuke the filibuster next time they get into power, and, when they do it, they'll pack the Supreme Court, they'll turn D.C. and Puerto Rico into states, they'll turn this nation into a one-party state!”
Trump has frequently urged Senate Republicans to kill the filibuster, warning last year that failing to do so would result in the GOP losing control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections. The demand, however, has been met with skepticism from a number of Republican lawmakers, most of whom expressed fears that doing so would provide Democratic lawmakers with unchallenged power when, or if, they reclaim congressional majorities.
Johnson does not consider himself among that group, and warned on Saturday that if his GOP colleagues refuse to nuke the filibuster, Republicans would end up looking like “schmucks.”
“We ought to end the filibuster for the benefit of the American people, to secure our elections, to secure our border, to provide the kind of prosperity that President Trump [is] trying to accomplish with [his] economic policies,” Johnson said.
“I wish that we could maintain the filibuster, but that time has passed! Next time Democrats are in power, they'll nuke it and we will look like schmucks!”
President Donald Trump's meltdown at his own appointed Supreme Court justices following their decision to block his ability to impose tariffs under emergency powers law is unbecoming of his office, Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) told MS NOW's Jen Psaki on Friday.
Pritzker said the outburst points to ongoing cognitive decline.
"There's a lot packed into today. And you know, you have been critical at times, I've been critical at times, of the Supreme Court and what they have done and decisions they have ruled," said Psaki. "Today, Donald Trump spoke about the Supreme Court in a way I've really never heard a president speak about the Supreme Court, even when they disagree. I mean, he said they are very unpatriotic and disloyal to our Constitution. He said that the court has been swayed by foreign interests. He called the decisions by Justices Gorsuch and Barrett 'an embarrassment to their families.'"
"I know you don't always agree with the court and their rulings, but what did you make of his kind of meltdown, really attacks on the court as he did in a way I really haven't heard a president do before?"
"Well, that's who Donald Trump is," said Pritzker. "You know, he doesn't care about decorum. He doesn't actually care about the fact that these are public servants who, even when I disagree with them, you don't treat them with disrespect the way that he just did."
"By the way, he's attacking people he appointed to the Supreme Court," Pritzker added. "And that is — I mean, that's just who he is. And he does that to members of Congress, members of his own party. Anybody who disagrees with him is all of a sudden on the enemies list for him. So here you heard him. You know, go after Gorsuch, go after Barrett again. He appointed them. And they had very reasoned opinions about this."
"I just don't understand how we can put up with this much longer where he's just, I mean, tearing apart the government by going after very important, respected people both in the Supreme Court but also in the United States Congress," said Pritzker. "And I'm just — I'm disappointed at the direction that I think he's — I've said this before, you know, I really think he's suffering from dementia. And it's got him just lashing out at people constantly. Now he's lashing out at the very people that he appointed."
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hinted that the American people would never see the return of $175 billion in tariffs collected by the Trump administration after the Supreme Court struck down the president's ability to impose them.
During an event at the Economic Club of Dallas on Friday, Ray Washburne noted that the administration had collected about $175 billion in tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) before the court ruled it unconstitutional.
"But is that going to be in dispute?" Washburne asked. "Like who gets it back?"
"Yeah, it's in dispute," Bessent confirmed. "The Supreme Court did not rule on that today. They pushed it back down to the International Tax and Trade Court. And my sense is that could be dragged out for weeks, months, years."
"Well, that's going to be a food fight going after the $175 billion," Washburne observed.
"I got a feeling the American people won't see it," Bessent predicted.
Trump has vowed to continue imposing tariffs despite the court's ruling on Friday.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reacted on Friday to the Supreme Court's decision barring the use of emergency economic powers to impose tariffs, during a speech at the Economic Club of Dallas and echoed President Donald Trump's defiance on the subject.
Much like Trump, Bessent vowed that the tariffs will continue — and the Trump administration will simply use other federal statutes than emergency powers to authorize them.
"I would ... like to take a moment to address today's Supreme Court ruling, and I would note that I did not change a single word in my speech post the ruling," said Bessent. "President Trump will always put our national security and Americans first, and as I have said before, the president has multiple tools in his toolbox."
"Let's be clear about what today's ruling was, and what it wasn't," Bessent continued. "Despite the misplaced gloating from Democrats, ill-informed media outlets, and the very people who gutted our industrial base, the court did not rule against President Trump's tariffs. Six justices simply ruled that IEEPA authorities cannot be used to raise even one dollar of revenue. This administration will invoke alternative legal authorities to replace the IEEPA tariffs. We will be leveraging Section 232 and Section 301 tariff authorities that were validated through thousands of legal challenges."
In fact, Bessent promised, the new tariff plan won't even result in a meaningful loss of revenue for the federal government.
"Treasury's estimates show that the use of Section 122 authority, combined with possibly enhanced Section 232 and Section 301 tariffs, will result in virtually unchanged tariff revenue in 2026," he added.
A historian Friday described the historic impact of the Supreme Court's decision in its ruling against President Donald Trump's tariffs — something the nation's founders would have appreciated.
Tim Naftali, CNN's presidential historian and former head of the Nixon Presidential Library, explained why the high court's ruling was an active practice of what the Constitution was intended to do.
"Well, wherever he is, James Madison is smiling today. Tariffs are a tax. The founders decided that taxes should be the responsibility of the Article One branch, which is Congress," Naftali said.
"And today the U.S. Constitution worked as it's supposed to work, which is to keep various parts of the government in check when they overstep constitutional bounds," he added.
The court's decision was also one of many times throughout history that the Supreme Court has pushed back on a president.
"This is a huge moment in American history," Naftali said. "Donald Trump is not the first president to have been disappointed by the court. The courts in the 1930s invalidated Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. That's what led to the first push to pack the court that was Roosevelt's response to the fact that he was so angry at the court for undermining the New Deal.
"In the end, the court changed, and the New Deal stayed. Richard Nixon was furious at the court for forcing him to turn over the tapes when he lost the case. U.S. v Nixon. Well, the Dobbs decision really unsettled the Biden presidency. And Obama was not happy with Citizens United."
He said it's not new for presidents to be unhappy about a Supreme Court decision, but it is American.
"It's the way that it works. Our system is supposed to work this way every so often. One of the branches is supposed to be disappointed when it can't engage in a power grab that is unconstitutional."
John Boyd, Jr., the head of the National Black Farmers Association, celebrated Friday on MS NOW following the Supreme Court's decision invalidating President Donald Trump's authority to use emergency powers to enact tariffs.
"So, John, this morning you were feeling pretty positive," said anchor Antonia Hylton. "But now that President Trump says he's going to keep pushing these tariffs through no matter what, how are you doing?"
"Well, you know, I don't care how you look at it today — it's a big win for me and a big loss for this president," said Boyd, who has previously warned the tariffs are devastating farmers to the point of suicide. "That's why he was screaming to the top of his lungs at this press conference. He knows he lost in a big way today. And this is the firststep in the right direction."
The ruling, he continued, is "the first real hardnote that this president hasheard from the Supreme Courtsince he became elected. 6 to 3is a pretty sweeping, you know,victory. I don't care how youlook at it."
The next step, said Boyd, is "we want to turn to Congress to see how we can get compensated for lost revenue from all of the hardship that these tariffs have cost us. In the soybean market alone, we lost $54 billion, and the president is proposing $12 billion. I mean, people, you can do the math there. What the Supreme Court didn't do is lay out how farmers like myself are going to recoup our losses based on the damage from the president's tariffs."
"But I don't care how you look at it today, this president lost and John Boyd won today, because I've been on your show saying that these tariffs are illegal," he added. "And the courts agreed with me today. And what the president said to the Supreme Court today was deplorable. He called them lapdogs and fools and RINOs. How does he think that other world leaders are looking at this decision and rating him today? It shows his lack of leadership skills."
CNN hosts were taken aback by how angry President Donald Trump was Friday after the Supreme Court struck down his tariffs.
Anchors Boris Sanchez and Brianna Keilar were talking to senior White House correspondent Kristen Holmes about Trump's reaction to the Supreme Court's ruling — and how noticeably upset he appeared to be during it. Trump called the move "deeply disappointing" during a press conference and his first public reaction to the high court's decision. He also said that the SCOTUS justices who voted against his tariffs are "barely" invited to his State of the Union address next week, saying, "I couldn't care less if they come."
"Yeah, he is clearly angry," Holmes said. "He's been seething about this decision. This is the real core tenet of not just his economic agenda, but really his foreign policy agenda as well. He has used these tariffs as leverage, and he said specifically yes, he is going this alternative route. Yes, he is going to be invoking this 10% global tariffs by using the section 122. We know that they are looking into also using section 301. Those are the things those trade law that they're talking about to get this done. But that being said, the reason that they had gone this route initially was because this was quicker. They wanted this to be done quicker. They wanted to be able to instate this quicker. And that is why you're seeing this frustration from President Trump."
Trump was vocal and expressed his annoyance that he wanted his tariffs to continue despite the high court's decision. He also refused to answer CNN questions during the press briefing, calling the network "fake news."
"And I will say there were several interesting things he said. One, he was asked specifically about the two justices that he appointed to the Supreme Court," Holmes said.
Trump had a scathing comment to the justices he had appointed who voted down his tariffs.
"The question that I had also tried to ask, which is whether or not he regretted it, he wouldn't answer that, but he said it was an embarrassment," Holmes said. "This decision to rule against the tariffs was an embarrassment to their families. We know that he has ranted in the past about Supreme Court justices, particularly those he has appointed, who don't rule in his favor, but it was very clear here today that he was incredibly angry; he was angry at the court. He was angry at the people that he put into place. And he said so much, saying that they should be ashamed of themselves and of this decision that they made."
Trump praised the three justices who dissented from the decision, including Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who issued a 63-page dissent.
"Now, one of the things we also saw him do was walk through the dissent from Kavanaugh, who obviously ruled in favor of keeping the tariffs or against them being illegal and said that he that Kavanaugh had sort of set up a roadmap for what they were going to be doing now to instate these tariffs and praised Kavanaugh as well also mentioning that all the Supreme Court justices are still invited to the State of the Union, but barely but again, you could see how angry he was," Holmes said. "This is a core part of what they do what he has been doing, both in terms of economic policy, paying for different programs, saying that these tariffs are going to various different programs and bailouts, as well as when he goes into meetings with these foreign leaders using the tariffs as an enormous amount of leverage and really doing so carte blanche until now."
President Donald Trump took a shot at two justices he nominated to be on the Supreme Court — Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett — after they ruled that he had illegally imposed massive tariffs.
"Are you surprised in particular by their decision today?" Trump was asked during a White House press conference on Friday.
"I am," the president stated.
"Do you regret nominating them?" the reporter pressed.
"I don't want to say whether or not I regret," Trump replied. "I think their decision was terrible. I think it's an embarrassment to their families. You want to know the truth, the two of them."
President Donald Trump blasted members of the Supreme Court who ruled against his ability to impose tariffs in a 6-3 decision.
During a White House news conference on Friday, Trump said he was "ashamed of certain members of the court."
"Absolutely ashamed, for not having the courage to do what's right for our country," the president explained. "I'd like to thank and congratulate justices Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh for their strength and wisdom and love of our country, which is right now very proud of those justices."
Trump argued that foreign countries were "dancing in the streets" because of the tariff ruling.
"The Democrats on the court are thrilled, but they will automatically vote no," he said. "They also are a, frankly, disgrace to our nation, those justices. They're an automatic no matter how good a case you have. It said no."
"They're very unpatriotic and disloyal to our Constitution," he continued. "It's my opinion that the Court has been swayed by foreign interests and a political movement that is far smaller than people would ever think. Movement. I won by millions of votes. We won in a landslide. With all the cheating that went on, there was a lot of it, but we still won in a landslide."
"But these people are obnoxious, ignorant, and loud. They don't want to do the right thing. They're afraid of it."
President Donald Trump erupted at the Supreme Court on Friday after it ruled against his authority to impose sweeping tariffs, vowing to circumvent its decision with “alternatives” and lambasting the justices for their "ridiculous opinion,” which he claimed permitted him to "destroy" countries.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 earlier on Friday that Trump acted outside his authority when imposing his sweeping tariffs, which his administration had justified under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). As such, a significant share of Trump’s tariffs have now been declared unlawful.
“The court said that I'm not allowed to charge even $1! Can't charge one dollar to any country under IEEPA!” Trump raged during an address from the White House.
“But I am allowed to cut off any and all trade or business with that same country; in other words, I can destroy the trade, I can destroy the country! I'm even allowed to impose a foreign country-destroying embargo, I can embargo! I can do anything I want, but I can't charge $1!”
Trump has staked much of his presidency on his tariff policy, warning over the past several months that a ruling against the policy could lead to a $2 trillion “catastrophe” and reduce the United States to “almost Third World status.”
Now that the Supreme Court has ruled against the tariffs, Trump appears ready to circumvent the order through alternative tariffs, tariffs that he argued could generate “more money.”
“I can do anything I want to do to them, but I can't charge any money,” Trump continued. “So I'm allowed to destroy the country, but I can't charge them a little fee. How ridiculous is that?”
Trump erupts at SCOTUS after ruling against tariffs:
"I can destroy the trade, I can destroy the country! I'm even allowed to impose a foreign country-destroying embargo, I can embargo! I can do anything I want, but I can't charge one dollar!” pic.twitter.com/shwto7FAcc — Alexander Willis (@ReporterWillis) February 20, 2026
