Trump shows signs of mounting frustration with Supreme Court
'THE SUPREME COURT WON'T ALLOW US TO GET CRIMINALS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!' the president exclaimed Friday in one of multiple Truth Social posts penned after the court ruled 7-2 to temporarily block the administration's efforts to deport migrants with alleged ties to Venezuelan gangs largely over a technical issue.
'This is a bad and dangerous day for America!' he wrote in another post that also accused Supreme Court justices of 'not allowing me to do what I was elected to do.'
Trump entered the White House five months ago with a more outwardly restrained approach to the High Court, which has a 6-3 conservative tilt that includes three Trump appointees from his first term.
When justices unanimously upheld a federal law in January to shut down video-sharing app TikTok in the United States unless it cuts ties with its Chinese parent company, Trump, who had sought more time to hash out a TikTok resolution, responded online by saying he would try something else.
'The Supreme Court decision was expected, and everyone must respect it,' he wrote to his followers on Truth Social.
He later again defended the panel of justices and accused the media of trying to 'create a divide between me and our great U.S. Supreme Court,' after some people highlighted his interactions with Chief Justice John Roberts and other justices who attended his joint congressional address in March.
Trump stressed his respect for the judiciary but grumbled about the 'ridiculous situation we are in' after the court authorized a separate temporary hold on deportations on April 21.
'My team is fantastic, doing an incredible job, however, they are being stymied at every turn by even the U.S. Supreme Court, which I have such great respect for, but which seemingly doesn't want me to send violent criminals and terrorists back to Venezuela, or any other Country, for that matter,' he wrote.
But his messages about the court have gotten more emphatic as Trump-linked cases mount —along with reposts of messages from other court critics.
His latest hyper-critical messages directed at the court this week over immigration have reverberated throughout the MAGA-sphere.
Trump early this week offered a tactic for his team to argue in favor of broad presidential powers when faced with resistance from Supreme Court justices: Tell them that he's the president and was elected to do what he wants.
'Our lawyers should state this FACT when going before the United States Supreme Court, and all other courts. I was elected in a landslide, won ALL SEVEN SWING STATES, 312 Electoral College Votes, Won 2750 to 525 Districts, and easily won the Popular Vote. I must be allowed to do the job that I was elected to do. If not, we won't have a Country anymore,' he wrote Sunday.
He wrote in a post Friday: 'The Radical Left SleazeBags, which has no cards remaining in its illegal bag of tricks, is, in a very coordinated manner, PLAYING THE REF with regard to the United States Supreme Court. They lost the Election in a landslide, and with it, have totally lost their confidence and reason. They are stone cold CRAZY! I hope the Supreme Court doesn't fall for the games they play. The people are with us in bigger numbers than ever before. They want to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!'
He followed that with another message stressing that the court was in the wrong when it ruled against him.
'THE SUPREME COURT IS BEING PLAYED BY THE RADICAL LEFT LOSERS, WHO HAVE NO SUPPORT, THE PUBLIC HATES THEM, AND THEIR ONLY HOPE IS THE INTIMIDATION OF THE COURT, ITSELF. WE CAN'T LET THAT HAPPEN TO OUR COUNTRY!' he wrote.
Trump reposted a message Saturday from Mike Davis, a former Republican Senate and White House aide who now runs the Article III Project, an advocacy group that supports conservative jurists. Davis wrote that the court is 'heading down a perilous path.'
'The Supreme Court must come to the RESCUE OF AMERICA,' Trump added to the top of Davis's original post.
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