Trump announces new 10% global tariff after raging over Supreme Court loss

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Source: CNBC

Published Fri, Feb 20 2026 1:41 PM EST Updated 18 Min Ago


President Donald Trump said Friday he will sign an executive order imposing a new 10% “global tariff,” hours after the Supreme Court struck down his sweeping “reciprocal” import duties in a major rebuke of his trade agenda.

The new tariffs will come on top of the existing levies that remain intact following the high court’s decision, Trump said as he raged at the ruling during a White House press briefing.

He will sign an executive order later Friday imposing the new duties, which are being invoked under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. Tariffs conjured using that statute can only last for 150 days, with any extension requiring congressional approval.

Asked at the press briefing about that time limit, Trump said, “We have the right to do pretty much what we want to do.” Trump also declared that all of the tariffs currently active under statutes known as Section 232 and Section 301 will remain “in full force and effect.”

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Published Fri, Feb 20 2026 1:41 PM EST Updated 2 Min Ago


President Donald Trump said Friday he will sign an executive order imposing a new 10% "global tariff," hours after the Supreme Court struck down his sweeping "reciprocal" import duties in a major rebuke of his trade agenda.

The new tariffs will come on top of the existing levies that remain intact following the high court's decision, Trump said as he raged at the ruling during a White House press briefing.

He will sign an executive order later Friday imposing the new duties, which are being invoked under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974.

Tariffs conjured using that statute can only last for 150 days, with any extension requiring congressional approval. Asked at the press briefing about that time limit, Trump said, "We have the right to do pretty much what we want to do."


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President Donald Trump said Friday he will sign an executive order imposing a new 10% "global tariff," hours after the Supreme Court struck down his sweeping "reciprocal" import duties in a major rebuke of his trade agenda.


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[ck4829]

1. Um... how does that work? The executive branch will have to pay 10% more for supplies it gets via imports?

[UpInArms]

2. Really?

Impeach him already

[moonshinegnomie]

3. thats something he legally can do

he also said he starting an investigation of countries for unfair trade practices to reimpose tarrifs but that will take time...

[Blues Heron]

4. He's gone insane, remove

[MarcoZandrini]

18. Flush...

…that is all!

[Blues Heron]

22. Thank you for your attention to this fecal matter!

[Mr. Evil]

29. Yup. Well said!

The giant, heaping, steaming pile of shit that he is.

[Wednesdays]

5. "We have the right to do pretty much what we want to do."

Pretty much sums up the attitude of the entire regime.

[Justice matters.]

19. Ali Baba and his 40 thieves

too... doesn't mean they've gotten away with it once their hide was raided.

[BadgerKid]

6. Ooooh...

grab 'em by the tariffs.

[Miguelito Loveless]

7. And there it is

The Child Rapist has told his bought and paid for minions on the SCOTUS that he will ignore them.

I expect Roberts and Gorsuch to find themselves being investigated for mortgage fraud soon.

So, we are now officially a police state.

[flashman13]

21. I'd say it's a solid F U SCOTUS.

[popsdenver]

32. Of course

the groups responsible for enforcement of ANY Supreme Court ruling is...........

THE DEPT OF JUSTICE, AND THE FBI...........

Truly, the ONLY way to stop him, is up to the House to vote to impeach him, AND the Senate to vote him guilty. Period

[Ray Bruns]

8. Translation:

[Bluetus]

31. The most basic question: what we tariffs supposed to accomplish?

Ostensibly Trump was going to use them to force manufacturing jobs to come back to the USA.

We know what actually happened. Trump used these as extortion to get special deals to enrich himself. How many times did Trump announce huge tariffs on a single country or region, then quietly drop them a week or two later? You can be certain that nearly every such instance corresponded with a donation to the inaugural fund, the ballroom fund, the Trump golden shoes fund, the Trump crypto coin fund, a Trump PAC or whatever. It was all about extortion, that is obvious.

But the question is what good an across-the-board tariff of 10% accomplishes. It doesn't provide any real incentive for anybody to do anything. Nobody is going to relocate a major manufacturing operation for 10%. And if he is applying it equally to all countries, then that limits the extortion leverage.

Bottom line, this looks like simply a face saving ploy. It doesn't matter. Our jobs now is to force Trump to refund all those tariffs to individuals

[sakabatou]

9. He's such a spoiled child

[StarryNite]

14. And we're paying for his tantrums.

[moniss]

10. Legal basis? We don't need no stinking legal basis!!

But realistically when he says all of his tariffs remain intact it basically is flipping the middle finger to the SC ruling. So now what? Obviously this reaction to an adverse SC ruling is a forewarning of how he will react to any other adverse ruling. An out of control POTUS going around the world freely extorting for his own gain and using the US military to secure oil revenue for his slush fund. Along with an out of control DHS, Intelligence and DOJ to go after any critics and to beat and kill protesters in the street.

Even if states pass laws banning ICE-American Gestapo at the polls what happens when he ignores those laws? Local PD isn't going to get into a shootout with the Feds so now what? He has clearly demonstrated, as have the DOJ flunkies, that non-compliance/slow rolling etc. is their SOP with respect to any rulings they don't like. Hundreds of times of clearly violating court orders to not deport a specific person and then they do it anyway. Nobody in jail for contempt, judges issuing words of condemnation and little more and once again I harken back to the warnings I and many others gave back in the Spring of 2025 when we warned those who felt "the courts" would prevent things from getting out of hand.

Here once again today we see that court decisions are words on paper without any enforcement mechanism other than more words. The fascists aren't planning on allowing words to stop them. They also aren't planning on abiding by election results.

[bluestarone]

12. I read your words, and you laid out a perfect picture of

OUR country today! Your, "now what" is exactly what i've been screaming about as well. Be ready for ICE, or other ways this election will fail. God, i hope i'm wrong, because our freedoms should no longer be taken for granted. The shame i have is our forefathers died for all of us. Here we are at that same cross roads and what will OUR decision be?

[choie]

11. We have the right to do what we want to do.

That's his credo.

[KPN]

17. "We" being "me, myself and I" in the fat asses case!

Chief Roberts might actually be okay with that. He probably even has a deal already that he couldn’t refuse.

[NoMoreRepugs]

13. Will the spineless republican shitbirds in congress and the senate FINALLY do something?

[durablend]

15. They'll kneel down and pucker up some more

[Orrex]

16. Why doesn't he just fucking die?

[twodogsbarking]

20. CBS showed the babbling fool. Olympics on NBC. Watch people go downhill one at a time rather than the

entire country going downhill. How long is this hill anyway. I can''t see the bottom or the top.

[Grokenstein]

23. He's just declared himself king. Next up: God.

You know what needs to be done.

[Magoo48]

24. With no policing entity willing to step up, why would he heed the court's admonition?

[Hassler]

25. Does his new tariff include Penguin Island?

[bucolic_frolic]

26. Hasn't anyone figured how to make them a tax deduction? /nt

[Figarosmom]

27. So now we've reached the point where he is

telling the Supremes to pound dirt. What now?

[turbinetree]

28. 149 days left of this BS also........he does any and everything to circumvent the rule of law and the adjoining

legislation.............

[D. Spaulding]

30. The legal ground to use this act to impose such broad tariffs like this, is

even shakier than his first excuse. We need some entity to file court challenges ASAP since 122 was never designed for this;

"Section 122 Purpose: It is intended to combat a "fundamental international payments problem" (e.g., a severe balance-of-payments deficit), rather than just a general trade deficit.

Limitations: Tariffs are capped at 15% and are restricted to a 150-day duration unless approved by Congress.

Legal Challenges: Experts argue that using this section for sweeping, universal tariffs would face significant legal challenges because it is intended to correct currency-related payments issues rather than protect specific domestic industries."

[KY_EnviroGuy]

33. Thank you for this rational, informative reply.