‘GREAT DEPRESSION!’ Trump Prophesies ‘FAILURE AND DISGRACE’ If Courts Strike Down His Tariffs

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President Donald Trump predicted on Friday that if the courts strike down his sweeping tariff-heavy trade policy by finding he lacks the power to implement it unilaterally, the country will endure a “GREAT DEPRESSION” as well as “FAILURE AND DISGRACE.”

“Tariffs are having a huge positive impact on the Stock Market. Almost every day, new records are set. In addition, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars are pouring into our Country’s coffers. If a Radical Left Court ruled against us at this late date, in an attempt to bring down or disturb the largest amount of money, wealth creation and influence the U.S.A. has ever seen, it would be impossible to ever recover, or pay back, these massive sums of money and honor. It would be 1929 all over again, a GREAT DEPRESSION!” wrote Trump in a post on Truth Social.

He continued:

If they were going to rule against the wealth, strength, and power of America, they should have done so LONG AGO, at the beginning of the case, where our entire Country, while never having a chance at this kind of GREATNESS again, would not have been put in 1929 style jeopardy. There is no way America could recover from such a judicial tragedy, but I know our Court System better than anyone, there is no one in history that has gone through the trials, tribulations and uncertainties such as I, and absolutely terrible, but also amazingly beautiful, things can happened. Our Country deserves SUCCESS AND GREATNESS, NOT TURMOIL, FAILURE, AND DISGRACE. GOD BLESS AMERICA!

A court case brought against his administration by a coalition of blue states and small businesses challenges Trump’s authority to use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tax imports from a wide variety of countries around the world.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard oral arguments in the case last week.