President Donald Trump’s increasingly frantic rhetoric about allowing him to impose tariffs on a whim has turned into a bid for the Supreme Court to swiftly rule in his favor -- which received pushback on MSNBC on Monday morning.
Over a week ago, the president warned, “I will tell you that’s one of the most important cases in the history of our country because if we don’t win that case, we will be a weakened, troubled, financial mess for many, many years to come.”
Pointing to Trump’s knee-jerk response to an ad coming out of Canada featuring conservative icon Ronald Reagan opposing the use of tariffs in trade wars, “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough suggested the Supreme Court would likely look less kindly on ruling in the president’s latest power grab.
Co-host Jonathan Lemire set the stage by pointing out, “You hit the nail right on the head at the top of the hour here: The president's team will be arguing before the Supreme Court that these tariffs, that he has the authority to employ to impose tariffs. Usually that's done by Congress. He's doing it because it's a national emergency, and yet it couldn't be clearer here that he's doing it because his feelings were hurt because of an ad put together by the province of Ontario.”
“Well, exactly,” Scarborough agreed, "and, again, good luck going even before this Supreme Court and arguing that these are based on emergencies.”
“Everything is an emergency this term with Donald Trump and, you know, an emergency because of an ad that quotes Ronald Reagan accurately and his views on tariffs — that's an emergency? No, I don't think so,” Scarborough predicted.
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