The Losiest Loser: Part 574

 

As I am sure everyone has heard, Donald Trump, the losiest loser of all time, has lost yet again:

A Supreme Court decision on Friday striking down President Trump’s sweeping global tariffs dealt a major blow to his economic agenda and brought new uncertainty to global markets struggling to adapt to his whipsawing trade policies.

The court, in a 6-to-3 decision written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., ruled that Mr. Trump had exceeded his authority when he imposed tariffs on nearly every U.S. trading partner last year.

 Trump, a man who is cognitively unable to stop digging when he digs himself into a deep hole, couldn't wait to rush to the cameras and give one of his now-famously incoherent addresses where, amongst other things, he assured the nation he could read:

"I read the paragraphs...I read very well.  Great comprehension. I read everything there is to read."

Of course, this is a lie. As now disgraced journalist and Epstein associate Michael Wolff recounted:

“He didn’t process information in any conventional sense,” Wolff writes. “He didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semi-­literate.”

Wolff quotes economic adviser Gary Cohn writing in an email: “It’s worse than you can imagine … Trump won’t read anything—not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers, nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.” 

But putting aside yet another opportunity to point out how Trump is indeed the dumbest president to ever sit in the White House, it is important to mark another moment where Trump, the ubermensch, has been dealt not just another defeat, but another humiliating defeat. 

I could spend a lot of time analysing this decision, how it shows despite the naysayers, SCOTUS is not in the bag for Trump, and how the administration has taken a national debt crisis and made it significantly worse by spending money they did not have safely in the bank, but I will leave that sort of analysis to the many, many pundits with more expertise and time than I have. Rather, I just want to take this moment to say:

What a wonderful coda to yesterday's blog entry! 😆 

As I wrote just a few hours ago, the Trump resistance is winning on nearly every front. If MAGA were an army, its flanks would be collapsing, its supply lines cut, and Generalisimo Trump would be cowering under his bed next to his boxes of Stormy Daniels DVDs.  

The Glass Cannon-in-Chief didn't just crack today; he suffered a structural failure at his very foundation. For a year, the administration treated the IEEPA as a magic wand that could turn 'National Emergencies' into a private slush fund extracted from the pockets of working-class Americans for the benefit of millionaires and billionaires.

Today, the Supreme Court, including the very 'loyalists' Trump thought he had installed to protect his vanity, told him that the Constitution still has a pulse. When John Roberts, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett join forces to call your signature policy an "illegal cash grab," you haven't just lost a court case; you've had a pie thrown in your face.