{"id":17823,"date":"2026-02-23T21:19:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=17823"},"modified":"2026-02-23T21:19:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:19:30","slug":"trump-warns-of-brutal-new-tariffs-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2026\/02\/23\/trump-warns-of-brutal-new-tariffs-u\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Warns of \u2018Brutal\u2019 New Tariffs, UK and EU Left Reeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Trump Warns of \u2018Brutal\u2019 New Tariffs, UK and EU Left Reeling <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>President <a href=\"http:\/\/@realDonaldTrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> has sharply escalated his trade rhetoric, declaring he can deploy tariffs in a \u201cmuch more powerful and obnoxious way\u201d following a recent court ruling.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"334\" data-end=\"703\">In a fiery post on Truth Social, Trump lashed out at the Supreme Court of the United States after it ruled against his sweeping global tariff measures last Friday. He branded the justices \u201cincompetent\u201d and, in a pointed show of protest, wrote \u201csupreme court\u201d in lower-case letters, saying it reflected his \u201ccomplete lack of respect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"705\" data-end=\"879\">Despite criticizing the decision as \u201cridiculous, dumb, and very internationally divisive,\u201d Trump argued that the ruling had paradoxically expanded his presidential authority.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"881\" data-end=\"1056\">\u201cThe Supreme Court accidentally and unwittingly gave me far more powers and strength than I had prior,\u201d he wrote, claiming the decision opens the door to broader trade action.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1058\" data-end=\"1402\">Trump specifically pointed to the use of licensing powers against foreign nations, suggesting he could take tougher measures against countries he says have been \u201cripping the U.S. off for decades.\u201d While the ruling blocks the imposition of certain license fees, Trump questioned why the U.S. should be restricted when \u201call licenses charge fees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1404\" data-end=\"1582\">He further asserted that the court had upheld other existing tariffs, which he said could now be enforced with greater legal certainty \u2014 and potentially with increased intensity.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1584\" data-end=\"1766\">In closing, Trump accused the court of serving \u201cthe wrong people,\u201d saying the justices \u201cshould be ashamed of themselves,\u201d though he notably exempted what he called the \u201cGreat Three.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1768\" data-end=\"1894\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The remarks signal a renewed escalation in Trump\u2019s trade agenda, with the possibility of more aggressive tariff actions ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Warns of \u2018Brutal\u2019 New Tariffs, UK and EU Left Reeling President Donald Trump has sharply escalated his trade rhetoric, declaring he can deploy tariffs in a \u201cmuch more powerful and obnoxious way\u201d following a recent court ruling. In a fiery post on Truth Social, Trump lashed out at the Supreme Court of the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2299],"tags":[3359,3752],"class_list":["post-17823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-donald-trump","tag-usa-eu-tariffs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17825,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17823\/revisions\/17825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}