Ben Shapiro says Trump's attacks on Supreme Court justices over the tariff ruling “were not, shall we say, presidential”
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From the February 23, 2026, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): The fallout, at the same time, from the tariff decision made by the Supreme Court on Friday continues. President Trump gave a press conference, which we covered live, at which he said a number of things that I thought were not, shall we say, presidential. The president attacked the justices who ruled against him as somehow dumb and also maybe in the pay of foreign officials or parties. That's absurd. The decision is well-argued and well-reasoned. I frankly think that the dissents have the worst of it in the opinions, and that's a rarity for me because, normally, I agree with Justices Thomas and Alito. I think both of their opinions are not well-calibrated. Alito signed on to Thomas's opinion. He also signed on to a dissent from Brett Kavanaugh. I think if the shoe were on the other foot and it were Joe Biden attempting to declare tariff power over literally all of planet Earth based on a, at best, vague delegation in the IEEPA, I think that would have been struck down.