The Harry Sisson Show - Trump MELTS DOWN Live After Suffering HUGE LOSS

Episode Date: February 20, 2026

Harry Sisson reacts to Trump's insane press conference in response to the Supreme Court striking down his tariff plan

All right, folks, we are about to watch Donald Trump's live press conference with his response to the Supreme Court striking down his illegal tariffs. But before I do that, I want to break down what we saw today because, man, is it a good day for America, but a really bad day for Donald Trump? So the Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump's sweeping emergency tariffs are illegal. The Supreme Court today ruled that Donald Trump violated federal law when he unilaterally imposed sweeping tariffs across the globe, a striking loss for the White House. The decision is arguably the most important loss the second Trump administration has sustained at the conservative Supreme Court, which has consistently ruled with Donald Trump on matters surrounding immigration, for example, or his ability to fire the heads of different agencies in the federal government. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, and the court agreed six to three that the tariffs exceeded the law. The court, however, did not say what should happen to the more than $130 billion in tariffs that have already been collected. That's a major pain point, you might say, that'll probably end up in the courts and will be litigated for many years.

The president asserts the extraordinary power to unilaterally imposed tariffs of unlimited amount, duration and scope. Roberts wrote for the court, in light of the breadth, history and constitutional context of that asserted authority, he must identify clear congressional authorization to exercise it. The emergency authority Trump attempted to rely on, the court said, falls short. And we know that Donald Trump is not happy about this. Aside from his press conference, according to reports from CNN and others, Donald Trump was swearing at people in the White House this morning, screaming FU, F this, F the court at different folks in the White House. So watch.

About this. Yeah, Pamela, we still have no official reaction from the White House or President Trump. We are waiting. I am told that they are meeting, discussing how they are going to respond. But we have learned more about what happened in the room when President Trump was with those governors and he learned of the Supreme Court decision. Apparently, the breakfast had been going well. They were working together.

And then President Trump became enraged. He started ranting about the decision, not only calling it a disgrace, but started attacking the courts at one point saying these effing courts, but using the actual language there, we know that President Trump does use expletives on quite often when he is enraged in particular. Now, this, of course, comes as this tariff policy, this could not be a bigger decision for President Trump. This could not be a bigger loss for President Trump. Not only is so much of his economic agenda based on these tariffs, so much of his foreign

policy is based on these tariffs. He has used these tariffs as leverage in almost every meeting that he has had around the world. He has touted them as the most important part of the economic agenda. So clearly a huge loss, and he recognizes that today. Pamela. All right, Chris at home. So a major loss from Donald Trump.

He knows it. He's swearing behind the scenes. He's raging. And so now let's cut to this live press conference that we watch together. And I will include more reaction and analysis at the end of it. Here we go. Lock in. Wow.

That's a lot of people. That's a new record. We set a record every time. Well, thank you very much for being here. The Supreme Court's ruling on tariffs is deeply disappointing. And I'm ashamed of. certain members of the court, absolutely ashamed for not having the courage to do what's right for our country. I'd like to thank and congratulate justices Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh,

for their strength and wisdom and love of our country, which is right now very proud of those justices. When you read the dissenting opinions, there is no way that anyone can argue against them. There's no way. Foreign countries that have been ripping us off for years are ecstatic. They're so happy. And they're dancing in the streets, but they won't be dancing for long, that I can assure you. The Democrats on the court are thrilled, but they will automatically vote no. They're an automatic no, just like in Congress.

They're an automatic no. They're against anything that makes America. strong, healthy, and great again. They also are a, frankly, disgrace to our nation, those justices. They're an automatic no matter how good a case you have. It's a no, but you can't knock their loyalty. It's one thing you can do with some of our people. Others think they're being politically correct, which has happened before far too often with certain members of this court, and it's happened so often with this court. What a shame, having to do with voting in particular, when in fact they're just being fools and lapdogs for the rhinos and the radical

left Democrats, and not that they should have anything at all to do with it. They're very unpatriotic and disloyal to our Constitution. It's my opinion that the court has been swayed by foreign interest and a political movement that is far smaller than people would ever think. It's a small movement. I won by millions of votes. We won in a landslide. With all the cheating that went on, there was a lot of it. We still won in a landslide.

Too big to Rick. But these people are obnoxious, ignorant, and loud. They're very loud. And I think certain justices are afraid of that. They don't want to do the right thing. They're afraid of it. This was an important case to me. Moore is a symbol of economic national security.

And also, I would say, just for our country itself, so important, because we're doing so well as a country. We've never done so well. The good news is that there are methods, practices, statutes, and authorities, as recognized by the entire court in this terrible decision, and also is recognized by Congress, which they refer to, that are even stronger than the AEPA tariffs available to me as president of the United States. And in actuality, I was very modest in my ask of other countries and businesses

because I wanted to do, and it's very important, I want to be very well-behaved because I wanted to do anything. I didn't want to do anything that would affect the decision of the court, because I understand the court. I understand how they are very easily swayed. I want to be a good boy. What? I have very effectively utilized tariffs over the past year

to make America great again. Our stock market has just recently broken 50,000 on the Dow. And simultaneously, and even more amazingly, broken 70, broken 70. way he's bringing up the S&P. Two numbers that everybody thought upon our landslide election victory could not be attained. Think of that. Nobody thought it was possible to do it within four years.

It's Pam Bondi again. In one year. They said you'll never be able. You'll go back and you read the geniuses, read their statements, all of the Nobel Prize winners in economics. They said, no, you couldn't do it in four years. well, we didn't do it in four years. We did it in one year. We broke every record in the book, and we're continuing to do so. Tariffs have likewise been used to end five of the eight wars that I settled. I settled eight wars, whether you like it or not, including India, Pakistan, big ones, nuclear.

Somebody got it right. It would have been nuclear. Prime Minister of Pakistan said yesterday at the great meeting that we had, the Peace Board. He said yesterday that President Trump could have saved 35 million lives by getting us to stop fighting. They were getting ready to do some bad things. But they've given us great national security these tariffs have. And together with our strong borders, reduced fentanyl coming into our country by 30 percent. When I use them as a penalty against countries illegally sending this poison into our country to poison our youth, all of those tariffs remain.

They all remain. I don't know if you know that or not. They all remain. We're still getting them. And we were after the decision. I guess there's nobody left to appeal to. But again, those three people, such respect. I've had a lot of respect for them anyway, but such great respect.

But other alternatives will now be used to replace the ones that the court incorrectly rejected. We have alternatives. Great alternatives. It could be more money. We'll take in more money and will be a lot stronger for it. We're taking in hundreds of billions of dollars. We'll continue to do so. To show you how ridiculous the opinion is, however,

the court said that I'm not allowed to charge even $1. I can't charge $1. Can't charge a dollar. I would have used one penny, but we don't make the pennies anymore. We save money. Can't charge $1 to any country under Aipa. not one dollar I assume to protect

other countries. This must have been done to protect those other countries, certainly not the United States of America, which they should be interested in protecting. That's what they're supposed to be protecting. But I am allowed to cut off any and all trade or business with that same country. In other words, I can destroy

the trade. I can destroy the country. I'm even allowed to impose a foreign country destroying embargo. I can embargo. I can do anything I want, but I can't charge $1. Because that's not what it says, and that's not the way it even reads. I can do anything I want to do to them, but I can't charge any money. So I'm allowed to destroy the country, but I can't charge them a little fee.

I could give them a little two-cent fee, but I cannot charge under any circumstances. I cannot charge them anything. Think of that. How ridiculous is that? I'm allowed to embargo them. I'm allowed to tell them you can't do business in the United States anymore. We want you out of here. But if I want to charge them $10, I can't do that. It's incorrect. Their decision's incorrect. But it doesn't matter because we have very powerful alternatives that have been approved by this decision. You know, they've been approved by the decision for those that thought they had us. And they're saying that I have the absolute right to. to license, but not the right to charge a license fee. So think of that. I have the right to license, which a very powerful word, in many ways license is more powerful than tariffs. In fact, I was thinking about using it. But they came up with the idea that I can license, just like the people that were opposing me told them to do, but not the right to charge a license fee. Think of that. Whoever heard of such a thing? What license has ever been issued without the right to charge a fee?

license you charge a fee. It's automatic, but not with this court. But now the court has given me the unquestioned right to ban all sorts of things from coming into our country, to destroy foreign countries, but a much more powerful right than many people ever thought we even had, but not the right to charge a fee. How crazy is that? Our country is the hottest country anywhere in the world right now. And it was a dead country, one and a half. years ago under an incompetent president. But now I'm going to go in a different direction, probably the direction that I should have gone the first time, but I read the language. I'm very good at reading language, and it read our way 100%, but now I'll go the way I could have

gone originally, which is even stronger than our original choice. As Justice Kavanaugh, whose stock has gone so, you have to see, I'm so proud. him, wrote in his dissent, although I firmly disagree with the court's holding today, the decision might not substantially constrain a president's ability to order tariffs going forward. So think of that, the decision might not substantially constrain. He's having such trouble reading. In fact, I can charge much more than I was charging. So I'm going to just start.

although I firmly disagree with the court's holding today, the decision might not substantially constrain a president's ability to order tariffs going forward. That's because numerous other federal statutes, which is so true, authorized the president to impose tariffs and might justify most, if not all, of the tariffs issued in this case, even more tariffs, actually. Those statutes include, think of that, those statutes include, for example, the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, Section 232, all of these things I know so well, the Trade Act of 1974, sections 122, 201, 301, 301, and the Tariff Act of 1930, Section 338, all clear, but it's a little bit longer process. I thought I'd make things simple, but they didn't let us do that. I would like to thank Justice Kavanaugh for, frankly, his genius and his great ability.

You know, what the fuck? That a point. Oh, my God. In actuality, why? Well, I am sure that they did not mean to do so. The Supreme Court's decision today made a president's ability to both regulate trade and impose tariffs, more powerful and more crystal clear. rather than less.

I don't think they meant that. I'm sure they didn't. It's terrible. And to think that the Democrats who oppose this only because they want to go the opposite way. They'd like to pack the court. They want to put on 21 people. They want to pack the court, pack the Supreme Court.

Maybe they should do it. Maybe it would be better off if they did it. They want to pack the court. They want to do anything to hurt our country. There will no longer be any doubt and the income coming in and the protection of our companies and country will actually increase because of this decision. I don't think the court meant that, but it's the way it is. Based on longstanding law and hundreds of victories, and even, as I was pointed out before, even thousands of victories over the years, to the contrary, the Supreme Court did not overrule tariffs. They merely overruled a particularly use of AEPA tariffs.

And essentially, it's to use to get a fee. I can do anything I want with AEPA. Anything. I just can't charge anybody for it. I can license. I just can't charge them. It's ridiculous. But it's okay because we have other ways, numerous other ways.

The ability to block, embargo, restrict, license, or impose, any other condition on a foreign country's ability to conduct trade with the United States under AEPA has been fully confirmed by this decision. So now there's no doubt because, you know, there were a lot of questions about tariffs because no president was smart enough to use them to protect our country from those countries and businesses that were ripping us off. You took a look at the deficits that we had with some of these countries. It was disgraceful what they got away with for many, many decades. But now we know because this decision affirms all those things

that some people weren't sure about in order to protect, and it says so, in order to protect our country, a president can actually charge more tariffs than I was charging in the past period of a year under the various tariffs authorities. So we can use other of the statutes other of the tariff authorities, which have also been confirmed and are fully allowed. Therefore, effective immediately, all national security tariffs under Section 232 and existing

Section 301 tariffs, they're existing, they're there, remain in place, fully in place, and in full force and effect. What? Today I will sign in order to impose a 10% global tariff under Section 122. Oh, my. Over our normal tariffs already being charged. And we're also initiating several Section 301 and other investigations to protect our country from unfair trading practices of other countries and companies. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

And I say quite simply, which I've said. for a long time, make America great again. And interestingly, we've already made it great, so I don't have to use them. Oh, my God. Maga's always gonna be with us. If you have a few questions, you can let us know. But just to end, so we're going forward.

We will be able to take in more money, and there'll no longer be doubt, because there was always doubt. I know the people that brought the lawsuit And, you know, sleeves bags, but I know them. And they're a foreign country-centric. They were sending things into our country, and the people representing them knew full well,

but they were sending things into our country, and they were beneficial to other countries, but very, very bad for us. And I stopped it, and we'll just keep it going. So we have more of a, we have a totally firm decision now, And I don't think the court meant it because the court doesn't show great spirit toward our country, in my opinion. A lot of bad decisions. But there are usually ways around it.

This is something we could have done, as Justice Kavanaugh said, we could have done this originally, but we're doing it now. And the numbers could be far greater than the hundreds of billions we've already taken. So that was insane. Apparently we're getting an additional 10% global tariff, making everything more expensive. So that's even worse than what we had before. It's not just tariffs on specific industries. Donald Trump is just saying 10% global tariffs on every country, everything. So all of our goods are all of them, not just all of them are about to get more expensive.

This is really bad for the United States. He was also alleging like some foreign influence over the Supreme Court in that press conference. He never really elaborated on that at any point. But apparently there's like foreign countries influencing the minds of the Supreme Court. that's where Donald Trump is. That's how insane he is right now. That's how crazy he is right now. But a weird day for America because it's great that Donald Trump's tariffs were struck down. They were always illegal. They were always taxing the American people. It's clear as day for anybody that has two eyes, right? But now we have this additional 10% global tariff. It seems like Donald Trump is doubling down, trying to find different backdoor ways that he could impose tariffs and raise taxes for the American people.

It's all really crazy. So we'll just have to kind of. to see what happens. I'm sure that much of this will end up in courts despite what he does next, but a weird day for America. So I'm curious to hear what you think in the comments down below. Let me know what you think about everything we just listened to. Make sure to subscribe down below as well. Drop a like on the video. If you're on Apple or Spotify, please make sure to rate the show five stars and follow along. It goes an incredibly long way. Have an amazing rest of your day, and we will talk soon.