Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett have lifetime appointments to the highest court in the country. They cannot be fired, demoted or primaried. On Sunday night, Donald Trump still managed to sound like two employees had just disappointed him during a quarterly review.
In a sprawling 545-word Truth Social post, Trump explained why the two justices had personally wounded him by ruling against his tariff regime earlier this year.
The post actually opened on a surprisingly affectionate note.
“I ‘Love’ Justice Neil Gorsuch! He’s a really smart and good man, but he voted against me, and our Country, on Tariffs, a devastating move. How do I reconcile this? So bad, and hurtful to our Country. I have, likewise, always liked and respected Amy Coney Barrett, but the same thing with her.”
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The emotional damage stemmed from a February Supreme Court ruling in which both justices joined the 6-3 majority that struck down Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs, a decision that reportedly wiped out $159 billion in tariff revenue the administration had already collected and now has to return.
Trump, however, appeared convinced the legal crisis could have been solved with what he described as one “tiny” adjustment.
“They could have solved that situation with a ‘tiny’ sentence, ‘Any money paid by others to the United States does not have to be paid back.’ Why wouldn’t they have done so?”
The justices, in Trump’s reading, needed only to add a single sentence to their ruling to make the legal problem disappear. The fact that this is not how constitutional jurisprudence works did not appear in the post.
The loyalty argument arrived mid-post and was its own category of remarkable. “They have to do the right thing, but it’s really OK for them to be loyal to the person that appointed them to ‘almost’ the highest position in the land.”
A few lines later, he added: “I don’t want loyalty, but I do want and expect it for our Country.”
I “Love” Justice Neil Gorsuch! He’s a really smart and good man, but he voted against me, and our Country, on Tariffs, a devastating move. How do I reconcile this? So bad, and hurtful to our Country. I have, likewise, always liked and respected Amy Coney Barrett, but the same… pic.twitter.com/TLDIQgjFmi
— Commentary Donald J Trump Truth Social Posts On X (@TrumpTruthOnX) May 10, 2026
Neil Gorsuch happened to touch on the subject of loyalty during a series of interviews promoting his new children’s book about the Declaration of Independence. “My loyalty is to the Constitution,” he said. The book, fittingly enough, is titled Heroes of 1776.
The birthright citizenship case is the one Trump is most worried about. He attended oral arguments last month, the first president in history to do so, and wrote afterward: “Based on the questioning by Republican Nominated Justices that I watched firsthand in the Court, we lose.” A ruling is expected before the end of June.
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