😹😹😹 “These fucking courts!😹😹😹

Trump: "TARIFFS! Can you believe it? And I gotta be before a court. This is like men playing in women's sports. Transgender for everybody. I have a new one to add -- voter ID." pic.twitter.com/9YhF9Qp7CU

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 19, 2026

Q: “What do today’s numbers tell us about the effectiveness of Trump’s tariffs?”

Economist @JustinWolfers: “Bahhahahahahahahahahahahaha” 👀 pic.twitter.com/lDgtzWY7ch

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) February 20, 2026

CNN: Apparently the breakfast had been going well. Then Trump became enraged. He started ranting about the decision, not only calling it a disgrace, but started attacking the courts at one point saying: these f’ing courts pic.twitter.com/p7aR2LiXVV

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 20, 2026

Yes, listen to them! https://t.co/YCG8sGUrKU

— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) February 20, 2026

BlueSky:

Supreme Court absolutely bodies Trump on IEEPA.

Just complete groin kicking.

They could have said that IEEPA lets him impose tariffs in an emergency but that this didn't qualify as one of those, or he failed to define one.

It didn't.

It ruled IEEPA doesn't let him impose tariffs at all.

I haven’t read the opinion (I’m honestly waiting for Professor Vladeck to do that for me. What? This is not my job!), but if this analysis is correct, Trump is done. His administration has been saying since oral arguments that they have other options. But if it’s correct that the majority ruled tariffs are taxes, then they’re ruling that only Congress can levy taxes, which moots any further action by Trump.

My own reaction was that Trump has meddled with primal forces, and the smarter members of the court (I.e., not Alito, Thomas, or Kavanaugh), realized it. I also don’t discount that the three conservatives finally see that Trump is a loose cannon on the deck of the ship of state.

CALLED IT!

Trump’s tariffs were ILLEGAL from day one. An unconstitutional tax — and now it’s dead.

WHEN IS TRUMP GOING TO REFUND EVERY DAY AMERICAN PEOPLE THE $1,700 HE ILLEGALLY TAXED THEM?

🔗 https://t.co/Dl3TpOhA9z pic.twitter.com/V2nhXe1UEk

— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) February 20, 2026

Liberation Day has finally arrived

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) February 20, 2026

Trump checking “the tariff shelf” today pic.twitter.com/qHw8yvJPaM

— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) February 20, 2026

CNN: Now that these tariffs are off, I am hearing from the Port of Los Angeles, the executive director there, saying that they are now bracing for a surge of cargo vessels to come into the United States, landing on the shores of Los Angeles.

We are in the Chinese lunar new… pic.twitter.com/7hePhxBMqd

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 20, 2026

CNN: Now that these tariffs are off, I am hearing from the Port of Los Angeles, the executive director there, saying that they are now bracing for a surge of cargo vessels to come into the United States, landing on the shores of Los Angeles.

We are in the Chinese lunar new year, so factories are largely shut down in China. But he is hearing already from business groups and importers saying that they want to get those factories up and running as soon as possible to bring in key items into the United States that are heavily imported toys, shoes electronics, appliances, because they are also nervous about the fact that potentially president trump could find another way to impose tariffs.

ETTD is an iron law of the universe..