Trump Sinks with Huge Defeats Before His State of the Union Address

President Donald Trump didn’t hide it. It’s a “disgrace,” he said during a breakfast with governors, looking at a note that told him his administration had just suffered a humiliating rebuke at the hands of a conservative Supreme Court, according to a governor who was in the room and was granted anonymity to share details of the meeting, Megan Messerly and Daniel Desrochers reported for Politico.

The nation’s highest court has dealt the president what some allies see as the most humiliating and devastating blow of his second term. (Photo: The White House)

Trump cut his remarks short and walked out of the room, with his favorite presidential power — and, by extension, his agenda — on a knife’s edge, four days ahead of the most important speech of the year.

His primetime address to Congress on Tuesday was supposed to set the stage for a tough but disciplined midterm campaign focused on the administration’s efforts to reduce costs for everyday Americans and tout his accomplishments.

Instead, he heads to the Hill amid a torrent of negative news. Economic growth is flagging. US military assets are massing in the waters around Iran in anticipation of a strike that many in the president’s base find odious.

A major government agency is shut down over an immigration standoff with Democrats, sparked after federal agents murdered two US citizens.

“Make America Healthy Again” activists are furious over Trump’s order boosting domestic production of the herbicide glyphosate.

The scandal surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, continues to swirl.

And now, the nation’s highest court has dealt the president what some allies see as the most humiliating and devastating blow of his second term.

Six justices, including two Trump appointees, said Friday that the president does not have the authority to unilaterally impose tariffs on trading partners in the event of an international economic emergency — a power the court made clear resides with Congress.

“This is the signature economic policy, we’re four days away from the State of the Union, and he has just been rejected by the court in a pretty serious public way,” said Allison Smith, a lobbyist and former trade official in the Biden administration.