The President appointed three Supreme Court justices. They ruled against him. He called them failures on television.
This marks the first time in American history a man has been shocked that people with lifetime appointments stopped caring about his opinion. The judicial branch exists specifically to ignore the executive branch. That's the whole point. But apparently nobody explained this during the four years he ran the country.
The ruling blocked a Postal Service rule that would have restricted mail-in ballots. Trump wanted fewer mail-in ballots. He said this would help Republicans. He said the quiet part loud, then got mad when his own appointees pretended not to hear him.
Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett all voted against the administration. Trump spent political capital getting them confirmed. He burned relationships. He took heat from every newspaper in America. Then they ruled based on legal precedent instead of loyalty. What a betrayal.
The Supreme Court does not work for the President. This is taught in every civics class. It's in the Constitution. It's the reason we have three branches of government instead of one guy with a Twitter account and a bad mood.
Retail traders immediately began pricing this into their portfolios by panic-selling index funds and buying gold coins from late-night television commercials. One guy in Tampa sold his entire Robinhood account to invest in a bunker. The bunker company went bankrupt before installation. He now sleeps in a hole in his backyard and tells his neighbors it's a pool.
The market did not move. Nothing changed. Mail-in ballots existed before this ruling and will exist after. But Trump got to be angry on camera, which was probably the goal all along.
Appointing judges who rule against you is the most expensive self-own in constitutional history.
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