U.S. President Donald J. Trump speaks to media on Air Power One as he departs the Al Bateen Government Airport on Could 15, 2025, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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President Donald Trump took purpose on the Supreme Court docket, fellow Republicans and a number of other celebrities Friday in a collection of social media screeds that underscore the home political challenges he faces and the private grievances he will not let go.
“I see that Extremely Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a International Nation to talk badly in regards to the President of america,” Trump wrote in regards to the iconic American rock star.
“By no means favored him, by no means favored his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he isn’t a proficient man — Only a pushy, obnoxious JERK,” he added, after Springsteen known as Trump’s administration “treasonous.”
Trump accused the U.S. Supreme Court docket of getting “performed,” and he admonished Republican “grandstanders” threatening to derail his legislative agenda in Congress.
He even took a swipe at pop icon Taylor Swift, claiming “she’s now not ‘HOT'” and taking credit score for her purported decline.
Trump despatched all 4 Reality Social posts inside an hour throughout his flight again to the U.S. from Abu Dhabi, the place he had simply wrapped a four-day tour by the Center East.
The posts present the president shifting his focus again to home points, the place he faces contemporary political headwinds. They embrace a significant setback for his huge tax-cut invoice Friday and a contentious bout of Supreme Court docket oral arguments Thursday associated to his controversial birthright citizenship order.
The assaults additionally showcased Trump’s trademark willingness to lash out at his perceived enemies — in politics and tradition alike.
“Has anybody seen that, since I mentioned ‘I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,’ she’s now not ‘HOT?'” Trump wrote, referencing a previous social media put up he despatched after Swift endorsed his 2024 marketing campaign rival, former Vice President Kamala Harris.
The singer Taylor Swift throughout the first of her two performances on the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, on 29 Could, 2024 in Madrid, Spain.
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The whirlwind journey to the Center East was marked by a slew of enterprise offers and flattery for the U.S. president from Gulf State leaders.
Whereas he was away, the Supreme Court docket heard oral arguments in a high-profile dispute over Trump’s government order trying to finish birthright citizenship, the longstanding coverage that anybody born within the U.S. is a citizen.
The three liberal justices on the nine-seat court docket appeared extremely skeptical of the arguments introduced by U.S. Solicitor Basic D. John Sauer. A number of the court docket’s conservatives — together with Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee — additionally requested pointed questions of the federal government.
Individuals maintain an indication as they take part in a protest outdoors the US Supreme Court docket over President Donald Trump’s transfer to finish birthright citizenship because the court docket hears arguments over the order in Washington, DC, on Could 15, 2025.
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Trump wrote that the Supreme Court docket “IS BEING PLAYED BY THE RADICAL LEFT LOSERS, WHO HAVE NO SUPPORT, THE PUBLIC HATES THEM, AND THEIR ONLY HOPE IS THE INTIMIDATION OF THE COURT, ITSELF.”
“WE CAN’T LET THAT HAPPEN TO OUR COUNTRY!” he wrote.
Quickly after, he shared one other name for congressional Republicans to “UNITE” with the intention to go a single invoice that features the bevy of tax cuts and different gadgets Trump promised throughout his presidential marketing campaign.
“Not solely does it reduce Taxes for ALL Individuals, however it should kick thousands and thousands of Unlawful Aliens off of Medicaid to PROTECT it for many who are those in actual want,” Trump claimed.
If his “one, massive, lovely invoice” doesn’t go, he wrote, it “will probably be blamed on the Democrats, however that does not assist our Voters.”
“We do not want ‘GRANDSTANDERS’ within the Republican Social gathering,” he mentioned. “STOP TALKING, AND GET IT DONE!”
Trump’s calls for did not sway sufficient Republicans on the Home Funds Committee to advance the invoice, nonetheless. The laws was blocked Friday amid opposition from conservatives.
Bruce Springsteen gestures throughout a rally for Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in Atlanta, in Georgia, U.S., October 24, 2024.
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On Wednesday, Springsteen delivered a searing criticism of Trump and, apparently, DOGE chief Elon Musk.
“In America they’re persecuting individuals for utilizing their proper to free speech and voicing their dissent,” mentioned the 75-year-old rocker, who has been an outspoken supporter of Democratic candidates.
“The richest males are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest kids to illness and loss of life. That is taking place now,” Springsteen mentioned.
Trump lambasted Springsteen’s seems to be and accused him of being “dumb as a rock,” earlier than declaring that he “must KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT till he will get again into the Nation.”
“Then we’ll all see the way it goes for him!” Trump wrote.