The champagne corks barely hit the floor at CNN before President Donald Trump made the entire Supreme Court ruling irrelevant.
In a stunning display of constitutional chess, Trump responded to Wednesday's 6-3 SCOTUS decision striking down his IEEPA-based tariffs by immediately reimposing every single one of them — using alternative legal authorities the Court's majority opinion never even touched.
Every. Single. One.
The Court's Fatal Oversight
Here's what the robed establishment and their media cheerleaders didn't count on: the President of the United States actually read their ruling. And he found the gaping hole within minutes.
Legal experts, including former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, confirmed what Trump's team already knew — Section 301, Section 131, and multiple executive powers related to national security remained completely untouched by the Court's narrow ruling. The justices struck down one pathway. Trump simply walked through another door.
"They couldn't write one sentence about whether the government keeps or returns hundreds of billions of dollars," Trump noted, pointing out the ruling's stunning silence on $175 billion in tariff revenue already collected. Stephen Moore called it "shameful." That's putting it mildly.
The Absurdity Speaks for Itself
Consider the logical pretzel six Supreme Court justices just tied themselves into: Under their ruling, President Trump cannot charge a single dollar in tariffs under IEEPA. But he can impose a full trade embargo. He can cut off all commerce with any nation on Earth. He can economically devastate an entire country.
But charge them ten dollars? Unconstitutional.
"You can embargo a country into oblivion but cannot charge them ten dollars. That is what six Supreme Court justices decided was sound reasoning."
The contradiction would be laughable if it weren't so transparently political.
Six Months of Deliberate Chaos
The Court sat on this case for six months. Six months while American businesses struggled to plan their futures. Six months while China watched, waited, and strategized. And when did they finally rule? Right before the State of the Union, timed for maximum disruption.
Coincidence? Patriots know better.
But the establishment's victory lap lasted about as long as a Biden press conference. Markets responded to Trump's countermove with the Dow climbing nearly 200 points. Investors understood what the legacy media refused to report — this ruling doesn't end Trump's America First economic agenda. It barely slowed it down.
The Dissent That Matters
Justices Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh dissented with force. Kavanaugh alone wrote 63 pages outlining the constitutional foundations for presidential tariff authority — essentially providing a roadmap for the administration's next move.
When asked if the justices who ruled against him were invited to the State of the Union, Trump delivered a perfectly Trumpian response: "Barely. Three are happily invited. The rest? Barely."
Congressman Tim Burchett reminded Americans of a fact the globalists desperately want you to forget: before the income tax even existed, tariffs funded the entire federal government. This isn't radical policy. This is American tradition.
The Real Stakes
American manufacturing jobs are not going back to China. The de-industrialization that began under Clinton-era trade deals — the hollowing out of the American heartland — is being reversed one executive order at a time.
The establishment thought they ended the game. Trump changed the board.
So here's the question every American should be asking: If six Supreme Court justices couldn't stop Trump's tariff agenda with their most aggressive ruling, what exactly did they accomplish besides proving how badly they underestimated this President?