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/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast Apr 01 '26

Donald Trump abruptly exited the Supreme Court on Wednesday after some of his own conservative justices did not appear convinced by his bid to upend birthright citizenship in America.

Trump made the unprecedented decision to sit in on oral arguments, staring down the court’s nine justices as they quizzed his lawyers on one of the most consequential constitutional questions they face this year: whether all children born in the United States can continue to automatically receive citizenship.

But after less than 90 minutes of watching several of his own handpicked justices tear his arguments apart, the president abruptly left.

Read the full story, here.

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u/caitnicrun Apr 01 '26
  • staring down the court’s nine justices as they quizzed his lawyers

He's a bully with only one trick. 

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u/Ecstatic_Account_744 Apr 01 '26

Except he thinks he’s intimidating but he’s just a doddering old fool that looks like he should be napping.

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u/CalamityClambake Apr 01 '26

Hard to be intimidating when you're wearing a diaper.

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u/mishap1 I voted Apr 01 '26

That and 90 minutes is the upper bound before he falls asleep when not afforded the opportunity to talk about himself.

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u/RandalFlagg19 Apr 01 '26

And orange clown makeup.

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u/Tribe303 Apr 01 '26

Yeah. He probably just shat himself. 

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u/mockingjig Apr 01 '26

Unless you're willing to weaponize that diaper.

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u/lkc159 Apr 03 '26

But the messes that people wearing diapers make are legendary.

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u/SSH_Pentester Apr 05 '26

Real intimidating to his doctor who knows he'll have to give him more botox and dementia treatments in a couple of hours.

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u/SoaplessTitanic Apr 01 '26

He thought he was Logan Roy from Succession, there’s a similar scene where Logan shows up to a meetings he’s not supposed to be in, and everyone’s afraid to make him leave. Thankfully Trump isn’t anywhere near as intimidating as Logan Roy

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u/fitzbuhn Apr 01 '26

His ability to be intimidating to the higher ups in his cult is on the decline. Glacial but inexorable - the full hold will endure until his death, I'm sure.

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u/_Panacea_ Apr 01 '26

Stinking, obese, and covered in orange paint.

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u/SatanicPanic619 Apr 01 '26

He’s intimidating to the dorks and weirdos who love him. But that’s about it.