Donald Trump mocks ‘honest’ Supreme Court judges, says they ‘openly disrespect’ the president by choosing the law over him

There are landmark cases that shaped American society and ended up forming the backbone of the type of democracy the US is. Loving v. Virginia comes to mind, even Roe v. Wade. But recently, the Donald Trump tariff case, Learning Resources v. Trump, might come to represent something else entirely — how the president can’t control the Supreme Court.

Trump has now gone as far as calling Supreme Court justices “disrespectful” for not giving him a favorable ruling. In a very long and detailed Truth Social post, the president lamented how justices with conservative leanings don’t move as a pack like their liberal counterparts.

Trump wrote, “The Democrats on the Court always ‘stick together,’ no matter how strong a case is put before them — there is rarely even a minor ‘waver.’ But Republicans do not do this. They openly disrespect the Presidents who nominate them to the highest position in the land, a Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and go out of their way, with bad and wrongful rulings and intentions, to prove how ‘honest,’ ‘independent,’ and ‘legitimate’ they are.”

The frustration Trump is expressing stems from a string of setbacks in the courts. In Dec. 2025, the Supreme Court refused to intervene in a lower court’s block on Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in cities like Chicago. The court has also shown little appetite for the idea that the administration can fire Fed. Governor Lisa Cook without stronger cause. Broadly speaking, the court has pushed back against what many Democrats have labeled executive overreach.

Rep. Mark Levin was quick to point out that Trump sounded “unhinged.” Levin took to X to accuse Trump of expecting “loyalty.” The Californian congressman concluded that Trump’s preference for conservative justices may have been rooted in an expectation that they would always rule in his favor — which is hard to argue against when his Truth Social post reads less like a legal argument and more like a complaint to a DJ who refused to play his favorite song at a party he paid for.

This is unhinged.

The President of the United States went on a late-night rant, making clear he believes the Supreme Court justices he appointed owe him their loyalty and should always rule in his favor.

The President of the United States is openly attacking the independence… pic.twitter.com/pxorbkfm8T

— Rep. Mike Levin (@RepMikeLevin) March 19, 2026

Trump’s post also suggests that, of all his legal setbacks, this one seems to sting the most. He wrote, “Our Supreme Court has made these countries very happy but, as the Court pointed out, I have the absolute right to charge tariffs in another form, and have already started to do so. The hundreds of billions of dollars that our adversaries want our country to pay back to others that have disrespected the U.S.A., until I came along, should be marked down, in the eyes of the public, as just another reason why the United States had been in such major decline — but not anymore, because we have MADE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN and, very soon, it will be GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE!”

Trump has had one of the most turbulent first years of any US president in the 21st century. But many of his biggest challenges have been of his own making. Even as he types furiously about Supreme Court justices in the middle of the night, the reality remains that his administration now has to figure out how to issue refunds.

And it has to do all that while navigating a cost-of-living crisis and an ongoing war — which, at this point, feels like a lot more than even the Supreme Court can rule on.