Donald Trump slams courts after Kennedy Center ruling, vows to fight 'rigged' system
By: Sophie Brams (The Hill)
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Comments: by Sophie Brams - 05/30/26 1:34 PM ET
by Sophie Brams - 05/30/26 1:34 PM ET
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President Trump described the U.S. court system as "rigged" on Saturday in the wake of recent decisions blocking a cornerstone of his economic policy agenda and the addition of his name to the renowned Kennedy Center.
Trump, in a in a lengthy post on Truth Social, claimed, "…our Court System is RIGGED, no different than our Political System is RIGGED, and the people of our Country know it and that is why I got overwhelmingly elected President, in Record Numbers, and will FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!"
The president has made a habit of lashing out at legal decisions he disagrees with throughout his second term, often leveling personal attacks against federal judges and conservative Supreme Court justices when they rule against him.
That came on display again when Trump slammed U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, an appointee of former President Obama, for blocking the Kennedy Center name change and stopping a planned summer closure of the performing arts center for renovations.
Trump accused Cooper of being influenced by his wife, attorney Amy Jeffress, whom the president called a "Radical Left Democrat" associated with his political opponents.
Jeffress is a partner at Hecker Fink, a New York-based law firm that represented writer E. Jean Caroll in a successful lawsuit against Trump for sexual battery and defamation.
Media reports surfaced this week indicating that the Justice Department was investigating Caroll for possible perjury in civil lawsuits against Trump; however, the top federal prosecutor in Chicago has denied that his office opened a criminal probe into the 82-year-old columnist.
"Amy is totally wired into the Left System, from her husband down, and it is impossible for me to be treated fairly," Trump wrote. "He has a total Conflict of Interest, and should be brought up on charges for not revealing these facts. That is why The Kennedy Center will soon be closed, probably never to open again."
Trump also railed against the Supreme Court's February decision that struck down the bulk of his sweeping tariffs, which the court said exceeded his constitutional authority.
"That is why, at a different level, and with different players, our Country lost the TARIFF Case, and is forced to pay back 149 Billion Dollars in money received from people who hate everything we stand for," the president wrote, renewing his criticism of the refund process.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the agency that collects tariffs and duties on goods coming into the country, is currently in the process of refunding more than $160 million to importers and brokers who paid tariffs before they were invalidated.
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a near 80 year old adult that never heard the word no as a child and always got his way when the tantrums started ...
In all my time on Earth. . .in all my experiences I have never seen a man so full of animosity that he wants to grow OLD, GRAY, and travel to whatever is beyond. . . dissing, hissing, and pissing on his fellow travelers in this world. At his age, one would think. . . MAGA King Trump would THINK about what lies 'beyond' as taught and told by many. . . MAGA King Trump does not!
Obviously he never grew out of being a spoiled child. It's about time Americans gave him the spanking he has needed for so many years.
gee, I wonder what country will be bombed next over this latest public humiliation ...
He calls the Court system rigged. Didn't he do exactly that with his SCOTUS appointments?
Self-awareness is not his strongest suit.
Conservatives clearly love a rigged system; it just has to be rigged in their favor. If it's not rigged in their favor, then get ready for the worst overacting and loudest faux outrage you've ever seen and heard because there is nothing more miserable and slobbering than a rightwing conservative Christian who thinks something is unfair to them.
The poor guy. He's so magnificent he deserves to have his name and face on everything. How dare those bad courts take his name off the Trump-Kennedy Center, especially since he's done so much for the arts in this country.
I look forward to the mass exodus of maga scum from america in the near future ...
Where they gonna go? Nobody wants them
some place where their religious enemies can easily get to them ...
... referring to American businesses.
peter thiel has already relocated his family from california to argentina, where all the other nazis escaped to after WWII ...
He should go with them and STOP INFECTING OUR POLITICS! He can take his boy Vance, too.
there won't be any seats left on his flying presidential library when the time comes for maga scum to escape ...
His level of projection is impressive. What an amazing talent for lying — for complaining about what he is actually trying to do.
And in the same breath that he complains, yet again, about a rigged system, he notes that he was reelected (by that rigged system).
On top of being an incompetent lying sack of shit, a vindictive asshole, a psychopath, Trump illustrates why he is always trying to label others as 'low IQ'. It is, yet again, projection.
we're already witnessing the beginnings of what will be mass defections away from him, and the long hot summer hasn't started yet. the economic ceiling is about to collapse on the maga faithful, while their heroes enrich themselves without even trying to hide it ...
And of course, now MAGA King Trump (AKA: "Mr. Retribution") will have to hunt down and politically destroy (and financially "jack") all fading MAGA peons not willing to bend the knee any further on behalf of their King!
Happy Retribution! (Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch!)
What is rigged? The name of the place is literally written into the law that created it. This was pointed out at the time by many people (myself included). This is not complicated.
Likewise, it's still the Department of Defense no matter what MAGA wants to call it.
It's just a knee-jerk reaction with him.
Jerk is a good word to describe him.
Way too mild. The word that seems best to me is psychopath.
He's definitely a psychopath. And a malignant narcissist. Great combination.
there's too many words he can't spell in that statement ...
Anything that doesn't go his way is rigged, just so we are all clear.
... for the last 75+ years of his life.
This is what happens when you are your own boss even though you’re incapable of running a popsicle stand.
the epitome of a loser ...
"relax, guy ..."
"it's fake news ..."
Have faith in Dr. Jesus.