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“Disgrace”: Trump insults Supreme Court
Updated February 20, 2026 – 7:39 p.mReading time: 36 minutes
Trump rejects Supreme Court ruling against his tariffs. Fighter jets take off in front of a US state. All developments in the news blog.
US President Donald Trump sharply criticized the US Supreme Court after rejecting most of his punitive tariffs. In a specially called press conference at the White House, he called the verdict “deeply disappointing.” The court’s “liberal judges” are a “disgrace to the nation.”
The President announced that he would use alternatives to reintroduce the rejected tariffs. At the same time, he announced the introduction of a global basic tariff of ten percent.
It is probably the biggest setback for US President Trump so far: most of his tariffs are invalid – and may now have to be paid back. Read the full article here.
US President Donald Trump proclaimed a “golden age” in the United States, but that has not yet materialized, at least economically. The US gross domestic product (GDP) rose an annualized 2.2 percent last year, less than economists expected, according to figures from the Commerce Department on Friday. Between October and December, growth slowed to just 1.4 percent.
Even before the figures were published, Trump had blamed the opposition Democrats for this. In October and November they caused the longest budget shutdown in US history, he wrote in his online service Truth Social. That would have cost the US “at least two percentage points of GDP.” The US Federal Reserve, on the other hand, estimated that the shutdown cost one percentage point of growth.
In 2024, the year before the presidential transition from Joe Biden to Trump, the US economy grew by 2.8 percent. In January, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) raised its growth forecast for the US economy for 2026 from 2.1 to 2.4 percent.
