Posted on 09/12/2025 8:36:59 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
President Donald Trump warned on Friday that if the Supreme Court shoots down his global tariffs than the United States will owe “trillions and trillions of dollars” to other nations.
Trump joined Fox & Friends on Friday where he discussed a number of topics, including the shooting and killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
While talking up his tariff strategy, the president admitted that trillions could be added to the United States’ debt should he end up losing in the Supreme Court, which recently agreed on an expedited timeline to rule on whether Trump’s tariffs are legal.
The president said on Friday:
It’s given us a great power to negotiate with other countries that took advantage of us, tremendous power. Also, it’s brought in trillions of dollars into our country. We have a big case brought by foreign governments because the foreign governments have been ripping us off for years and it’s now in the Supreme Court That case is really important to win because it’s made us a rich country. It’s made us a rich country because I don’t want to call it retribution but we’ve been ripped off.
Should the tariffs be shot down by the Supreme Court, he added, the United States will owe trillions more than it already owes.
“That Supreme Court case is so important,” Trump said. “And, frankly, this economy, if we win the tariff case — which we should, on the legal merits, but on common sense merits — we would have to give back trillions of dollars to these countries. Can you imagine? We would have give back trillions and trillions of dollars because we got it because of tariffs.”
Good, so go away?
“ Yeah that was Woody Wilson sticking it to the little guy.”
Wasn’t that done by his wife? Wilson had stroked out and was incapacitated to the point of being non-verbal. Great government we have when you vote for one but someone else decides…
I’ll pass, friend.
Forgot to mention, he is also a retread...
Congress could fix this and make it moot.
“Careful. You might be exiled to the TDS penalty box by clearly elucidating the legal issues.”
I read your post and I thought you were wrong. A moment later, I read #33 and now I’m not so sure.
For the record: I have not studied or even read the laws concerning tariffs. I’m not qualified to say which side will prevail before SCOTUS, let alone which side deserves to prevail. Those questions are waaaaay above my pay grade.
From where I sit, the Congress has tacitly approved the tariffs by not strongly objecting.
The President has accomplished the tax increase that Congress is never able to do.
Freep mail its prior life if you don’t mind.
I just Grok’d that about Woody Wilson.
You are correct - per Grok ‘multiple strokes that left him incapacitated, particularly after a severe stroke in 1919. His health problems were often downplayed by his inner circle, leading to a situation where he continued to serve despite being unfit for office.’
I did not know this about Wilson.
So FDR followed Woody’s path and let Eleanor run the country for him.
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