Majority of Supreme Court Justices Skip Trump's State of the Union After He Called Them a 'Disgrace to Our Nation'

Source: People.com

President Donald Trump blasted the Supreme Court to their face during his State of the Union address following their recent ruling against his tariff plan. During his speech at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 24, the president made several pointed remarks at the members of the Supreme Court. Only four justices were present — Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett — but that didn't stop Trump from criticizing the court as a whole for their decision. "It was an unfortunate ruling from the United States Supreme Court, a very unfortunate ruling," Trump said, while the four present justices sat in the front row.

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The president praised the three dissenting justices — Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas — but called those who voted for the majority "a disgrace to our nation." He reserved his sharpest insults for Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch — the two Trump appointees who voted against his tariffs — calling them "an embarrassment to their families.”

"It's my opinion that the court has been swayed by foreign interests," he continued. "It's almost like [the decision was] written by not very smart people." Five of the nine Supreme Court justices skipped Trump's 2026 State of the Union address: Republican-appointed justices Alito, Thomas and Gorsuch, as well as Democrat-appointed justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

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