When Trump gave the inaugural address for his second term, he promised to bring unity. In some ways he has — the American public is pretty united in not liking the guy according to the last Gallup presidential poll made public before they mysteriously decided to end the 88-year-long tradition. In others respects, he has broadened divides. Right-wingers swallowed the “We took the freedom of speech away” pill with relative ease because their mouths were preoccupied with licking the boot, but even they wiped their mouths and stood on their rights when the Administration tried to argue that Alex Pretti deserved to die because he had a gun on him at a protest. Those little crises blew over quickly, but his recent temper tantrum over the 6-3 in Learning Resources v. Trump may have more staying power. The rationale for the holding was simple: the Constitution vests Congress with the power of the purse and the Executive’s use of IEEPA to tariff countries at whim was an overstep. Seems simple, but Agent Orange took the holding as a personal attack and responded by openly insulting the justices that didn’t see it his way before he re-implemented arbitrarily tariffing by other means:
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