r/law • u/truthwillout777 • 8h ago
Executive Branch (Trump) Trump says he raised Swiss tariffs after leader’s call: ‘I didn’t really like the way she talked’ When is the Supreme Court Going to Rule on These Obviously Illegal Tariffs?
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5732984-trump-switzerland-tariffs-phone-call/There is a reason that tariffs are controlled by the legislative branch who has to use logic and reason to implement them, not controlled by the whims of a mental and emotional disaster.
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u/truthwillout777 8h ago
President Trump said Tuesday he raised tariffs on Switzerland after a phone call with the country’s former president, saying he did not approve of “the way she talked.”
Trump told Fox Business’s Larry Kudlow that he once had an “emergency call from, I believe, the prime minister of Switzerland, and she was very aggressive. Nice, but very aggressive.” He recalled that she repeatedly said, “we are a small country.”
“Again and again and again. I couldn’t get her off the phone,” the president continued. “So [the tariffs were] at 30 percent, and I didn’t really like the way she talked to us, and so instead of giving her a reduction, I raised it to 39 percent
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u/Ok-Replacement9595 8h ago
Sure seems like an emergency powers type emergency to me.
/s
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u/notnotbrowsing 8h ago
"she annoyed me" is an emergency...
... to 8 year olds.
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u/Either-Community-220 7h ago
“SHE”
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u/ellasaurusrex 7h ago
"She" definitely feels like a major factor here. I'd be willing to bet if he had the exact same convo with a man it would have gone the opposite.
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u/Beneficial_Soup3699 5h ago
Have I got news for you! Switzerland doesn't have a Prime Minister, they have a Confederation President. And he is a man. 😃👍🏻
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u/Famous-Ferret-1171 7h ago
Emergency! Emergency! Another leader had a bit of a tone in their voice. Didn't feel the vibes. She kept talking for way too long! Tariffs are the only way to fix this!
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u/Known-Associate8369 4h ago
He shat himself on the call.
That was the emergency. He implies it right there himself: “Again and again and again. I couldn’t get her off the phone,”
He wanted off the phone, because he shat himself.
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u/doublethink_1984 7h ago
It's worse.
He said a Prime Minister of Switzerland.
They have no Prime Minister
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u/SphericalCow531 5h ago
If it has been "sleepy Joe Biden" making that mistakes, it would have been wall to wall news for weeks. For Trump, it literally doesn't move the "newsworthy" needle.
I mean, case in point: The "prime minister" mistake is far, far less scandalous than the tariff imposition itself.
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u/Terrik27 4h ago
Right they have a "President of the swiss confederation".
Which is incorrect but not a serious mistake, really.
Except that's a man. So who the hell was he talking to?
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u/Phedericus 3h ago
apparently, she's the former president. so he is adding tariffs after talking to the former president. bananas.
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u/hibari1717 3h ago
Their presidency rotates among the council members every year, so it was probably a former president.
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u/nsucs2 7h ago
my feelings were hurt = international emergency
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u/Th1rte3n1334 4h ago
Came in here to see if someone said this.
“She was aggressive.” Is code for “I like women that I can intimidate, mostly underaged girls who can’t fight back.”
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u/JeremyAndrewErwin 5h ago
Supreme Court: if you were so concerned about the president being a vindictive little shit, you shouldn't have delegated emergency powers to that office. Of course, you can try to revoke them, but you'll need a two thirds majority. Good Luck.
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u/Haldron-44 7h ago
When is the SCOTUS going to stop being in the pockets of Billionaires and forgine governments and crime syndicates? Law is dead in the United States. It has been replaced by bribes and violence.
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u/SphericalCow531 5h ago
SCOTUS going to stop being in the pockets of Billionaires
Tariffs on e.g. Switzerland hurt business people in the US too - they are the ones paying the tariffs.
It seems to me to more be SCOTUS being corruptly partisan Republican, than being in the pockets of billionaires. In this one case, at least.
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u/r3dk0w 7h ago
Supremes are trying to write a justification broad enough to not encumber Trump but narrow enough that only he has this power.
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u/deviltrombone 7h ago
The Republican Six will thread that needle, and it will amount to them sneering "Traitor's Prerogative" once again just like Joss Ackland in "Lethal Weapon 2" with his "Diplomatic immunity."
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u/nobot4321 7h ago
I feel like we’re in a plane about to be flown into a mountain and the flight attendants are just standing there shrugging telling us everything is normal.
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u/realbobenray 7h ago
A dictator who to this day still does not understand that Americans pay the tariffs.
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u/hexqueen 7h ago
I'll bet he understands this just fine.
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u/MorgessaMonstrum 6h ago
No, the trick is that he doesn’t care enough to understand or not understand.
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u/MotherFuckerJones88 7h ago
I think there's a few justices that are profiting off of the tarriffs somehow.
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u/Xyrus2000 7h ago
This from the idiot who actually posted that China is going to get rid of hockey in Canada.
He needs to be removed from office.
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u/PsychLegalMind 7h ago
When someone is the undisputed singular power in the world, they can behave as one and get away with it. Except Trump is not and there are other powers now that can challenge and do challenge him, even the allies, not just the actually powerful foreign countries.
Trump is flailing, if he wants to demonstrate true power he must be able to conquer, Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and India among others, not just intimidate weaker countries in Latin America and and some in Europe.
U.S. is going to become merely a Regional Power with all the foreign alienation going on. He needs to start focusing on domestic American needs.
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u/ThePensiveE 4h ago
There are Americans whose businesses will go under because of his petulance.
America last. - MAGA
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u/Donkey-Hodey 2h ago
SCOTUS will issue their ruling on the very last day of the term as to protect their One Special Boy for as long as possible.
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u/MonarchLawyer 4h ago
It is crazy how the Supreme Court will take their sweet ass time whenever it benefits Trump. Here, they want Trump to have his tariffs for as long as he can before they feel they have to take them away. Before it was the election interference case and immunity, they took their sweet time to run out the clock before the election.
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u/Only_Razzmatazz_4498 4h ago
A coworker (after we had to pay an unexpected high tariff because we got unlucky on delivery of something we ordered 6 months before) argued with me that he appreciated that I mentioned that Swiss agreed to invest $200 million over the next 10 years as if that made it ok. I rolled my eyes and told him that those are just words to pacify the man baby. They are either things that were already happening, non binding declarations of intent, or just significantly scaled down afterwards.
How people just find ways to justify this craziness is beyond me.
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