After Court Defeat, Trump Warns of Economic Chaos From Loss of Tariffs The president and his advisers have suggested they will fight a federal appeals court’s ruling that found many of the administration’s tariffs to be illegal............. President Trump has maintained that any erosion in his ability to impose levies using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act will inflict damage on the United States by robbing it of both revenue and leverage.... ......... President Trump spent the weekend decrying a court decision that invalidated his most punishing global tariffs, and suggested he would soon take his fight to tax imports to the Supreme Court. .........
the president had overstepped his authority by using a 1970s law to slap tariffs on nearly every major U.S. trading partner.
......... “Without Tariffs, and all of the TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS we have already taken in, our Country would be completely destroyed, and our military power would be instantly obliterated,” Mr. Trump wrote in a social media post on Sunday. ............ It also remains unknown whether the Supreme Court would agree to hear the appeal and, if it did, how it might decide the case. ........... A loss at the Supreme Court related to the emergency powers would severely undercut Mr. Trump’s hand when it comes to imposing tariffs. It could also undermine the centerpiece of his economic strategy to force companies to invest in the United States. .......... it was unlikely that Congress had intended to grant the president nearly unlimited authority to impose tariffs as part of that law. ........ Trump has invoked it repeatedly to issue withering global duties, most recently in an executive order imposing taxes on imports from about 90 countries in early August. Mr. Trump also used the law in the first months of his presidency to impose tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico, actions that he said were in response to those nations’ role in the fentanyl trade. ......... “this dispute is far from over, the decision might be limited in scope, and importers may not see relief for some time.” ............. Mr. Trump late on Friday attacked the appeals court on social media as “Highly Partisan,” and said he sought to preserve his tariffs with the “help of the United States Supreme Court.” ........... On Sunday, the president said that trillions of dollars of announced investment in the United States would be at risk if the tariffs were overruled. ........... “If a Radical Left Court is allowed to terminate these Tariffs, almost all of this investment, and much more, will be immediately canceled!” he wrote. “In many ways, we would become a Third World Nation, with no hope of GREATNESS again.” .............Peter Navarro, a trade adviser to the president, on Sunday described the decision as “weaponized partisan injustice at its worst.” Mr. Navarro, speaking on Fox News, asserted that a loss at the Supreme Court would be the “end of the United States.”
........... Mr. Trump’s top aides have said that a loss could also lead to a diplomatic embarrassment. In statements published hours before the ruling, Mr. Trump’s advisers raised particular concern about the trade deals the president had brokered with the European Union and other nations. Those agreements are based on tariffs imposed under the emergency powers act. ............ Howard Lutnick, the secretary of commerce, said that a ruling against the administration could “lead to retaliation and the unwinding of agreed-upon deals by foreign-trading partners, and derail critical ongoing negotiations with foreign-trading partners.” .......... “Tearing up a deal because of a U.S. court ruling would be rubbing salt in Trump’s wound and risk triggering backlash, and not just on trade,” Mujtaba Rahman, who leads European research for the political risk consultancy Eurasia Group, said in an email. He said that European leaders would probably look to leverage the deal by saying, “‘Look we’ll stick with the deal but you too implement it, and no monkey business with digital regulations and taxes.’” ............. Mr. Trump does have other powers at his disposal, but each comes with drawbacks. Statutes such as Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 typically require consultations and investigations that can take several months to carry out. That would prevent the president from arbitrarily raising and lowering tariffs. .............. Mr. Trump has repeatedly used Section 232 to impose tariffs on specific products on national security grounds, including foreign steel and automobiles. Those duties were unaffected by the court ruling on Friday. The president is exploring taxes on imported pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and other products under the Section 232 authority. ........... Other trade laws allow the president to issue sweeping tariffs, but only for a limited period of time. Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, for example, allows a president to impose duties of up to 15 percent globally for up to 150 days. Another provision of that law, Section 301, allows the president to issue broad tariffs in response to unfair trading practices, after first carrying out consultations and an investigation.
The Tariff Twins and Their Make-Believe Monarchy
Once upon a time in Washington, two men—Donald J. Trump and his loyal sidekick Peter Navarro—decided they alone could bend the entire global economy with the sheer power of… tariffs. Courts? Constitutions? Congress? Pfft. Who needs all that when you have caps lock and a Truth Social account at 3 a.m.?
After two courts and now an appeals court told them their tariffs were illegal—because, surprise, the president is not actually king—the Tariff Twins just doubled down. They refused to pass anything through Congress, even though they controlled both chambers. Why bother with voters and their pesky representatives when you can simply proclaim tariffs into existence, like royal decrees shouted into the void?
EU leaders finally told them flat out: “You don’t know what you’re doing. Stay in your lane.” To which Navarro reportedly nodded gravely, as if he’d just been awarded a Nobel Prize in Misunderstanding Economics, while Trump muttered something about the “end of America” if his tariffs weren’t obeyed. Because of course, if you can’t slap 50% taxes on Indian shrimp, Western civilization itself must surely collapse.
The whole episode revealed their philosophy: trade is easy, law is optional, Congress is irrelevant. The Tariff Twins genuinely seemed shocked that the judiciary pointed out tariffs are taxes—paid by Americans—and that taxes require Congress. Voters? Representation? Boring! Who cares about 250 years of constitutional law when you can just scream “TARIFFS!” louder?
And so, the empire of Trump and Navarro wobbles on, built entirely of late-night posts, misread spreadsheets, and the belief that governing is just a really long episode of The Apprentice. Except this time, it’s America that gets fired.
टैरिफ ट्विन्स और उनकी काल्पनिक बादशाहत
वॉशिंगटन में कभी दो आदमी थे—डोनाल्ड जे. ट्रंप और उनके वफ़ादार साथी पीटर नवारो—जिन्होंने तय कर लिया कि वे सिर्फ़ टैरिफ़ के दम पर पूरी वैश्विक अर्थव्यवस्था को मोड़ देंगे। अदालतें? संविधान? कांग्रेस? छः! जब आपके पास कैप्स लॉक और सुबह 3 बजे ट्रुथ सोशल अकाउंट हो तो इन सबकी ज़रूरत किसे है?
जब दो अदालतों और फिर अपीलीय अदालत ने कह दिया कि उनके टैरिफ़ ग़ैरक़ानूनी हैं—क्योंकि, हैरानी की बात, राष्ट्रपति वास्तव में राजा नहीं होता—तो टैरिफ़ ट्विन्स और भी ज़िद्दी हो गए। वे कांग्रेस में कुछ पास कराने से भी इनकार करते रहे, जबकि दोनों सदनों में उनकी बहुमत थी। क्यों झंझट करें मतदाताओं और उनके प्रतिनिधियों से, जब आप शाही फ़रमान की तरह सीधे टैरिफ़ घोषित कर सकते हैं?
आख़िरकार ईयू नेताओं ने साफ़ कह दिया: “आपको पता ही नहीं है कि आप क्या कर रहे हैं। अपनी लेन में रहिए।” इस पर नवारो गंभीरता से सिर हिलाने लगे, मानो उन्हें "अर्थशास्त्र को गलत समझने" का नोबेल पुरस्कार मिल गया हो, जबकि ट्रंप बड़बड़ाए कि अगर उनके टैरिफ़ नहीं माने गए तो "अमेरिका का अंत" हो जाएगा। क्योंकि भला ऐसा कैसे हो सकता है कि आप भारतीय झींगे पर 50% टैक्स न लगाएँ—और सभ्यता ख़त्म न हो जाए?
पूरा प्रकरण उनकी विचारधारा उजागर करता है: व्यापार आसान है, क़ानून वैकल्पिक है, कांग्रेस बेकार है। टैरिफ़ ट्विन्स सचमुच हैरान रह गए जब न्यायपालिका ने बताया कि टैरिफ़ असल में टैक्स होते हैं—जो अमेरिकियों को चुकाने पड़ते हैं—और टैक्स के लिए कांग्रेस चाहिए। मतदाता? प्रतिनिधित्व? बोरिंग! जब आप बस ज़ोर से "टैरिफ़!" चिल्ला सकते हैं तो 250 साल के संवैधानिक क़ानून की किसे परवाह?
और इस तरह, ट्रंप और नवारो की बादशाहत डगमगाती रही—जो सिर्फ़ आधी रात की पोस्टों, गलत पढ़े स्प्रेडशीट्स और इस विश्वास पर टिकी है कि शासन चलाना बस द अप्रेंटिस का लंबा एपिसोड है। फर्क़ बस इतना है कि इस बार अमेरिका को ही फायर किया जा रहा है।
Tariff Twins Crown Themselves Kings, Forget Congress Exists
After yet another court struck down Trump’s sweeping tariffs, Trump and Navarro continued declaring new ones on Truth Social at 3 a.m., insisting civilization will collapse without a 50% tax on Indian shrimp. EU leaders responded with a collective eye roll: “You don’t know what you’re doing. Stay in your lane.”
Hindi
टैरिफ ट्विन्स ने खुद को राजा घोषित किया, भूल गए कि कांग्रेस भी है
एक और अदालतले ट्रंप के भारी-भरकम टैरिफ खारिज कर दिए जाने के बाद भी ट्रंप और नवारो रात 3 बजे ट्रुथ सोशल पर नए टैरिफ घोषित करते रहे, यह कहते हुए कि अगर भारतीय झींगों पर 50% टैक्स न लगा तो सभ्यता ही ढह जाएगी। ईयू नेताओं ने सामूहिक आँखें घुमाईं: “आपको पता ही नहीं है कि आप क्या कर रहे हैं। अपनी लेन में रहिए।”
Nepali
टैरिफ ट्विन्सले आफूलाई राजा घोषणा गरे, काँग्रेस अस्तित्वमै छैनजस्तो बिर्सिए
फेरि अर्को अदालतले ट्रम्पका भारी टैरिफ खारेज गरेपछि पनि ट्रम्प र नाभारो बिहान ३ बजे ट्रुथ सोसलमा नयाँ टैरिफ घोषणा गर्नमै लागे, यो दाबी गर्दै कि भारतीय झींगामा ५०% कर नलगाए सभ्यता नै ढल्नेछ। इयू नेताहरूले सामूहिक रूपमा आँखा घुमाए: “तपाईंहरूलाई थाहा नै छैन के गर्दै हुनुहुन्छ। आफ्नै लेनमा बस्नुस्।”
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