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Trump Has A Breakdown On National Television After SCOTUS Trashes His Tariffs

Donald Trump was nearly an hour late for his press conference on the Supreme Court overturning most of his tariffs and when he finally showed up, he looked bitter and broken.

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Feb 20, 2026
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The White House dimmed the lights in the Brady Briefing Room before Trump showed up to speak about the Supreme Court overturning his tariffs, as if the nation was about to get a somber and serious version of Donald Trump.

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Since there is no such thing as a somber and serious version of Trump, what the country got was a press conference from a president who claimed that he has other tariff options, which is true, but Trump couldn’t hide that his presidency was crushed.

Trump said:

 I want to be very well-behaved because I wanted to do anything. I didn’t wanna do anything that would affect the decision of the court. ‘cause I understand the court, I understand how they’re very easily swayed. I want to be a good boy.

I have very effectively utilized tariffs over the past year to make America great again. Our stock market has just recently broken 50,000 on the Dow and simultaneously and even more amazingly broken 7,000 on the S&P two numbers that everybody thought upon our landslide election victory could not be attained.

Think of that. Nobody thought it was possible to do it within four years, and we did it in one year. They said, you’ll never be able. You’ll go back and you read the geniuses, read their statements, all of the Nobel Prize winners in economics. They said, no, you couldn’t do it in four years. Well, we didn’t do it in four years.

We did it in one year. We broke every record in the book and we’re continuing to do so.

Tariffs have likewise been used to end five of the eight wars that I settled. I settled eight wars, whether you like it or not, including India, Pakistan, big ones nuclear, could have been nuclear. Prime Minister Pakistan said yesterday at the great meeting that we had, the Peace Board, he said yesterday that President Trump could have saved 35 million lives by getting us to stop fighting.

Trump continued to rant his delusions, and they only got worse.

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