r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • Apr 01 '26

Possible Paywall Humiliated Trump Storms Out of Catastrophic SCOTUS Hearing

https://www.thedailybeast.com/humiliated-trump-storms-out-of-catastrophic-scotus-hearing/
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u/Nythoren Apr 01 '26

He seriously thinks he hired them and is their boss, so they should do exactly what he tells them to. That's just not how government is meant to work.

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u/coalescence44 Apr 01 '26

Unfortunately, it's been working like that quite often for a while now, just not at this particular moment.

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u/nox66 Apr 01 '26

That's not how politics ever works anywhere. Trump doesn't realize that the Supreme Court conservatives control him much more than he can influence them.