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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(134,308 posts) Fri Feb 20, 2026, 04:17 PM Yesterday

Trump Vows to Use 'Even Stronger' Methods to Keep His Tariffs: 'I Can Destroy the Country'

President Donald Trump raged during a White House presser on Friday, addressing the Supreme Court decision striking down his emergency tariffs. Trump vowed to use “even stronger” measures to keep his tariffs in place, riffing at one point that he has so many alternatives at his disposal he can even “destroy” countries.

Trump began his remarks by ripping into the court and Democrats, while declaring, “Today I will sign an order to impose a 10% global tariff under Section 122, over and above our normal tariffs already being charged.”

He later wildly accused the justices on the court of being under foreign influence and added, “They don’t want to do the right thing. They’re afraid of it. This was an important case to me.

“More is a symbol of economic national security. And also, I would say, just for our country itself, so important because we’re doing so well as a country. We’ve never done so well. The good news is that there are methods, practices, statutes and authorities, as recognized by the entire court in this terrible decision, and also as recognized by Congress, which they refer to, that are even stronger than the IEEPA tariffs available to me as President of the United States,” he continued, arguing that he will be able to keep his tariffs in place using other methods.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-vows-even-stronger-methods-185752838.html

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Trump Vows to Use 'Even Stronger' Methods to Keep His Tariffs: 'I Can Destroy the Country' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Yesterday OP

He's thinking about nuking Iran isn't he? PuraVidaDreamin Yesterday #1

Clearly wants to destroy something leftstreet Yesterday #2

Because they know they can't kacekwl Yesterday #4

this mike_c Yesterday #6

If he nukes Iran... GiqueCee Yesterday #7

You already have, you jerk. jeffreyi Yesterday #3

Asswipe! some_of_us_are_sane Yesterday #5

Why Trump's Section 122 Tariffs Are Illegal LetMyPeopleVote 9 hrs ago #8

He's succeeding in destroying the US. nt City Lights 8 hrs ago #9

PuraVidaDreamin

(4,521 posts)

1. He's thinking about nuking Iran isn't he?

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 04:44 PM

Yesterday

Who has the guts to 25 him?

leftstreet

(39,764 posts)

2. Clearly wants to destroy something

Reply to PuraVidaDreamin (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 04:45 PM

Yesterday

Good Gawdz why isn't Congress getting rid of this psychopath?

kacekwl

(9,029 posts)

4. Because they know they can't

Reply to leftstreet (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 05:00 PM

Yesterday

win elections without his insane cult and Smoky eye Vance can't bring them.

mike_c

(36,983 posts)

6. this

Reply to kacekwl (Reply #4)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 05:33 PM

Yesterday

TSF has thoroughly ruined their brand among all but the white supremacists and other grievance monkeys. Every day he remains in office the pendulum swings further against republicans. They will never rid themselves of his stench.

GiqueCee

(3,728 posts)

7. If he nukes Iran...

Reply to PuraVidaDreamin (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 06:11 PM

Yesterday

... or anybody, he's a dead man walking. That's a line that must NEVER be crossed again; it is the ultimate crime against humanity for which there is NO excuse. But he's enough of an egomaniacal psychopath to try it.

jeffreyi

(2,548 posts)

3. You already have, you jerk.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 04:51 PM

Yesterday

Destroyed the country. May you and minions suffer all the consequences.

some_of_us_are_sane

(2,982 posts)

5. Asswipe!

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 05:04 PM

Yesterday

From the article:

"Trump vowed to use “even stronger” measures to keep his tariffs in place, riffing at one point that he has so many alternatives at his disposal he can even “destroy” countries.

Ya, you "Fake-Tan Poser"........... and WE CAN '302' YOUR ASS, YOU CRAZY-SCARED MENACE.

LetMyPeopleVote

(177,634 posts)

8. Why Trump's Section 122 Tariffs Are Illegal

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Feb 21, 2026, 02:41 PM

9 hrs ago

trump's new replacement tariffs are illegal. These tariffs can only be used when there is a balance-of-payments deficit which is very different from a balance of trade deficit. Since the US is no longer on a currency fixed exchange rate there have not been any balance of payment deficits for a couple of decades. These tariffs will be challenged and trump will lose again

Fascinating National Review post on Trump's latest Tariff gambit. Archive link here (it's pay walled, please don't give them money lol)

archive.is/r4Xdf
— Rude Law Dog (@esghound.com) 2026-02-21T19:01:57.437Z

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trumps-section-122-tariffs-are-illegal/

In Section 122, Congress endowed the president with narrow, temporary authority to impose tariffs “to deal with large and serious United States balance-of-payments deficits” (emphasis added). What Trump is complaining about — something he insists is a crisis but is not — is the balance of trade, not of payments. The United States does not have an overall balance of payments deficit, much less a large and serious one.

A trade deficit between the U.S. and a foreign nation occurs, mainly in connection with goods (which is just one aspect of international commerce), when imports are greater than exports. This is not really a problem for a variety of reasons — e.g., a trade deficit results in an investment surplus, the U.S. is a major services economy and often runs exported services surpluses that mitigate the imports deficit in goods, etc.

The balance of payments is a broader concept than the balance of trade. It accounts for all the economic transactions that take place between the United States and the rest of the world. Even without getting into every kind of transaction that entails, suffice it to say that foreign investment in the United States, coupled with the advantages our nation accrues because the dollar is the world’s reserve currency, more than make up for the longstanding trade deficit in goods.

Our overall payments are in balance. There is no crisis.

It’s vital to understand why Section 122 was enacted. There was a financial crisis in the late 60s and early 70s under the Bretton Woods system, when the dollar was tied to gold. Foreign countries that held dollar reserves could exchange them for gold at a fixed rate. Meanwhile, our government was spending at a high clip due to the Vietnam War and Great Society programs. This and the obligation to pay out gold put enormous pressure on the dollar. In response, in 1971, President Nixon severed the dollar’s tie to gold and — as several justices recounted in Friday’s Learning Resources opinions — imposed a temporary 10 percent import surcharge (a tariff) to stabilize the economy......

There is no rationale under Section 122 to impose tariffs. Because President Trump has no unilateral authority to order tariffs, he must meet the preconditions of Section 122 to justify levying them. He cannot. Not even close.

City Lights

(25,583 posts)

9. He's succeeding in destroying the US. nt

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Feb 21, 2026, 02:56 PM

8 hrs ago

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