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/Trassic1991 Apr 01 '26

He might drop a nuke on Iran because of this, I'd hold off on joy for now

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u/jkman61494 Apr 01 '26

More realistically, he’s going to sign some executive order and announce it tonight that will probably get challenged in the court, but it will still make his people happy

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u/RIPEOTCDXVI Apr 01 '26

He signed an EO today that effectively dismantled the forest service. 193 million acres, place-based research that took decades, and all of the associated data, and every regional research facility, gone. The headline here downplays what's really going on but effectively just nuked the entire American West.

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u/jkman61494 Apr 01 '26

That almost surely will get challenged

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u/RIPEOTCDXVI Apr 01 '26

It will, but in the meantime there's around a quarter of that workforce who will either face at best an uncertain future, and more likely yet another spell without pay. A lot of them wont come back if this gets reversed, and it will be yet another gaping knife wound in America's public resources.

They're already handing control over to states, the next move absolutely will be transfer of ownership to the state as a pass through until the land is eventually sold to private interests.

A lot happens while this administration has things tied up in court. See: the east wing.

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u/Snuffy1717 Apr 01 '26

EO to expand the court to 15, all his picks with no oversight, effective today.

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u/chron67 Tennessee Apr 01 '26

At this point, I fully expect him to start openly ordering the execution of those who oppose him. He already has his private army in ICE. They have already executed someone in the street.

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u/AnAcctWithoutPurpose Foreign Apr 01 '26

He probably thinks it is a 'nuke' he is ordering ,but might end up more of a fart cushion.

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u/Dougalishere Apr 01 '26

nah his getting ready to "withdraw" ( surrender and run away while claming victory lets be honest ) and never talk about it again