Now he claims that China has TOTALLY VIOLATED that deal, but doesn't say how one violates a nonexistent deal.

I know, right!? This is exactly like Mexico violating that "deal" to build that wall and make themselves pay for it!

There's never any logic involved in the things he says and the "very bad situation" he saved them from was, of course, a situation he created. Florida Man always throws in some projection. It seems like barring Chinese students from universities might be a violation of the FAST (fake) DEAL.

Even a weird clown like Bessent should be able to handle it. One big check to China, one to Canada, one to Mexico . . .

Yes! This! Everybody gets a check. Liberate the tariffs! :)

Donald appointed the judge who ruled against him - so if he's unhappy with the ruling, he's got mostly himself and Ronald Reagan to blame.

I know, right!? Those "activist judges" and that darn pesky Constitution (not to be confused with the ship in Boston).

Meanwhile, a healthy portion of the MAGAts seem genuinely aggrieved that their icon is being impeded by the Courts in his quest to unilaterally impose the largest tax hike in United States history upon We the People. Weird.

If the tariffs are struck down by the Supreme Court, it is going to lead to a real mess in terms of the bookkeeping. After all, if the tariffs were illegal all along then anyone who paid any tariff during that period should be able to get their money back.

So there might actually be a "Liberation Day" in there somewhere when all the illegally accumulated tariffs are set free from the bonds of the wannabe king and returned to their rightful owners.

Meanwhile, these rulings throw a monkey wrench into everything, particularly for those countries waiting with bated breath and in agony for their Trumpian edicts:

We have, at the same time, 150 countries that want to make a deal, but you’re not able to see that many countries. So at a certain point, over the next two to three weeks, I think Scott and Howard will be sending letters out, essentially telling people – we’ll be very fair – but we’ll be telling people what they’ll be paying to do business in the United States.

~ Donald Trump, May 16, 2025

Y'all just know that Bessent and Lutnick have been hardly working on those letters that were going to go out any day now! ;)

Even a weird clown like Bessent should be able to handle it. One big check to China, one to Canada, one to Mexico . . .

So far we haven't seen, as I understand it, actual full defiance of a federal court order by the Republican administration. Instead they have been legally hemming and hawing, claiming this exemption and that exception, which can only lead to new hearings and new rulings.

Sooner or later, I would think, there will come a time when the hemming and hawing have been exhausted, and the question will be: Will the President comply with a federal court order to do what he doesn't want to do?

The TACO theory comes into play, then: The president is a chicken-shit dictator who only dictates when no one says, "no, I won't". When he hits those who say, "BS, that's crap, not happening", he tends to fold and change the subject while claiming he was right all along, etc. etc.

It seems like this summer/fall will be the time when we'll find out if this president wants to engage in a full-out constitutional crisis of him refusing to obey a federal court order after all the BS delays have been played out.

of course, there are also very real people whose lives and livelihoods have been thrown into utter turmoil by the process, and that reality is less palatable to contemplate.