President Donald Trump warned that there would be a $2 trillion "catastrophe" if the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against his ability to impose emergency tariffs, despite having collected only around $100 billion.
"The 'Pay Back' Numbers being quoted by the Radical Left Lunatics, who would love to see us lose on Tariffs because of how bad it would be for our Country, are much higher than those being stated by our Fake Opposition," Trump insisted in a Monday post on Truth Social. "The actual Number we would have to pay back in Tariff Revenue and Investments would be in excess of $2 Trillion Dollars, and that, in itself, would be a National Security catastrophe."
The president argued that his opponents were "giving low Numbers so that the Court will think it is easy to get out of this terrible situation that these Anarchists and Thugs have put us into!"
In a possible attempt to get Americans on board with his tariffs, Trump suggested he might give some people a "dividend of at least $2000 a person." Those checks were expected to total around $326 billion.
However, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer recently told Fox News that the U.S. had collected only about $100 billion under Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs since he took office.
