Donald Trump has claimed he has “the absolute right” to impose new tariffs after the US supreme court ruled many of the import duties he imposed last year were illegal. “Our Supreme Court has made these Countries very happy but, as the Court pointed out, I have the absolute right to charge TARIFFS in another form, and have already started to do so,” Trump wrote on social media on Sunday. The supreme court’s decision did not say the president had the absolute right to charge tariffs in another form. “This completely inept and embarrassing Court was not what the Supreme Court of the United States was set up by our wonderful Founders to be,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. The US president has continued to use US economic power to try to push other countries around despite the supreme court ruling.

Source: The Guardian March 16, 2026 15:39 UTC