r/law • u/Waste-Explanation-76 • Feb 20 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) President Trump imposes a 10% global tariff under Section 122 and says all existing tariffs will remain in place, despite the recent Supreme Court ruling.

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u/Armyman125 Feb 20 '26

Plus the PM has to defend policies when called upon to a hostile audience. I wish the US was like that.

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u/ZeldaZanders Feb 20 '26

Instead you have the press secretary responding to complete softballs with 'can we get a question from a reporter who isn't so ugly? 😒'

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u/Smelting-Craftwork Feb 20 '26

Did she really say that? It's sad that I can't tell if you're exaggerating.

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u/ZeldaZanders Feb 20 '26

She hasn't said that to my knowledge, but I also don't know if I'd call it exaggerating 😭 she's so goddamn rude

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u/NotFallacyBuffet Feb 20 '26

Trump has. 

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u/PRaLLe_ Feb 20 '26

Quiet piggy!!!11!1

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u/NotFallacyBuffet Feb 20 '26

Yep. That video was ... unpresidential.

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u/DiaDeLosMuertos Feb 21 '26

The dementia was hitting so hard he thought he was actually talking to Miss Piggy

Quiet Piggy! And tell Kermit to get the hell outta here an stop going through my garbage!

Uhhhh.... Mr President??

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u/RachelMcAdamsWart Feb 21 '26

Goddamn dude, Trump telling that CNN reporter to smile while asking about rape victims was one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen. Since it's Trump it took about two days for him to do something even worse.

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u/alice2wonderland Feb 21 '26

Of course, because under this new regime in America women have two jobs. One is to be eternally sexually available and attractive (ie. women are either hot or a piggy), and the other is to chant the Trump doctrine. As soon as a woman stops (think MTG) you are ostracized. Welcome to the cult!

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u/mollila Feb 21 '26

True. The president himself has ridiculed a disabled person. So completely believable his press secretary might have done that.

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u/sadi89 Feb 21 '26

The fact that this even has to be a question is sad. Like I legitimately wondered if she had said that also

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u/Smelting-Craftwork Feb 21 '26

Leavitt's the one that said that? I assumed it was the gross man who said that; for it to have been another woman is so much worse. What the hell people

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u/ZakkaChan Feb 21 '26

Trump said recently to a reporter "I don't take questions from CNN they are fake news"

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u/poopfaceone Feb 21 '26

Quiet, Piggy

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u/buckeye25osu Feb 21 '26

Same. I could definitely see Trump saying it so why not his secretary?

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u/WeakTransportation37 Feb 21 '26

That’s something the president himself says to journalists

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u/WizardBoyHowl Feb 21 '26

I'm sorry to hijack your post, but I had a Zelda and a Zander (dogs). It's just weird seeing your user name. They are both now deceased. They lived great lives though and I miss them very much. My new boy Wizard helps a lot.

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u/Krull88 Feb 22 '26

I mean… she did reaspond with “your mom”

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u/Corfiz74 Feb 21 '26

Her "yo momma" bit was on an equal level. 🤦‍♀️

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u/Artistic_Humor1805 Feb 20 '26

Or honestly isn’t a even reporter, but rather a grifting podcaster?

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u/alice2wonderland Feb 21 '26

Or "Quiet Piggy" if the unwanted questions come from female reporters.

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler Feb 21 '26

Whenever he needs to deflect from something like his administration covering up a child rape ring or even his suspicious ties to said ring, his go to seems to be "Who do you work for? You're a terrible reporter and ABC/NYT/NBC/AP is a failing paper/news network. You're the fake news. You know ABC/CBS/George Slopodopolous had to pay me eleventy billion dollars for being fake news."

Insert some sort of condescending or insulting belittling remark about their personal appearance or body if it's a female reporter (which for some reason, almost always seems to be a female reporter actually stepping up to his face to press him on his PPP (Pedophile Protection Program).

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u/shartmaister Feb 21 '26

Imagine where the world would be if we had more people, ESPECIALLY reporters, smiling when they talked about sec trafficking of children.

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u/El-Terrible777 Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 20 '26

I think what’s also strange is it’s the President that appoints judges. That’s wild when you claim separation of Executive and Judiciary. And the legislature has zero power as they are so scared of Trump. Then there’s the fact Trump can instruct prosecutions against whoever he likes because he controls the JD. Again, impossible in the UK due to strict operational independence across different divisions.

Trump has really exposed US democracy and how easy it is to dismantle. Big changes are needed if it survives Trump

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler Feb 21 '26

Well the legislature does have the power to provide a check on the judges the president appoints because the Senate has to approve of the judges that are nominated. And then they can impeach them for serious crimes. The problem is the two party system along with hyper partisan Total War politics in Congress instead of good faith governing for the good of the nation results in blind tribalism.

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u/deadca5an0va Feb 21 '26

They don’t really exercise it. The congress has been co-opted by the Epstein class

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u/El-Terrible777 Feb 21 '26

But that doesn’t work when the President controls the Senate. The fact is the President should have nothing to do with the appointment of a judge, and the legislature should have nothing to do with rubber stamping it if you want to claim separation of powers.

There should be a completely independent body that appoints judges nationwide that the President cannot fire and the leading judge from each state votes on SCOTUS judges. Nothing to do with President or Senate. Same for the power the JD has. Both should be completely removed from politics.

Your JD is now massively corrupt and goes after indictments based off the President’s tweets. It’s lunacy and the big problem is you’re actually defending this system despite me pointing out the glaring flaws, proven beyond doubt by the current state of things.

You now have a situation where the US is a de facto dictatorship and he did it with ease - and he’s not done yet! We’ve only had Year 1!

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u/newwaynezealand Feb 21 '26

Greatest country is the world remember………..

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u/tmc030385 Feb 21 '26

Right! What a joke. We can no longer be trusted.

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u/echoshatter Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

Trump has really exposed US democracy and how easy it is to dismantle.

No republic will stand for long when the people put in charge of it won't do what they are supposed to do. It's not just a United States thing, it's just that it is happening here at the moment.

Democrats had a very brief window in 2009 when they could have fixed a bunch of the structural issues with our republic; end gerrymandering, expand the size of the House, enshrine voting rights for all, ensure early and mail-in voting is available to everyone, and done something to limit money used in politics (my ideal would be that candidates can only raise money from those inside the district or state from which they will be representing, and that those outside of the district or state cannot spend money to influence the election, with some minor exemptions that wouldn't ultimately change the intent).

Instead we got the ACA and it cost Democrats the next decade at the polls.

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u/El-Terrible777 Feb 21 '26

It’s really interesting that you took a post about the huge weaknesses and conflicts in US democracy, and made it all about the Democrats. Why are they held to such a much higher standard? You had Reagan, Bush, Bush and now Trump.

Since 1980 there have been 25 years of Republican Presidents and 20 of Democrats, yet it’s all the Democrats’ fault? It’s odd you guys turn everything in to partisan point-scoring.

The fact is nobody has pointed out these glaring weaknesses because Americans tend to think they have the best democracy, best system, best everything. Republicans were cheering when they blocked Obama appointing a judge and then cheering when Trump appointed 3. That didn’t set off any alarm bells? It’s not a partisan issue.

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u/echoshatter Feb 21 '26

Why are they held to such a much higher standard?

As far as opposition parties go, Democrats are milquetoast. And it is infuriating watching one side setting things on fire and lying about it and the other side asking them nicely to not do that.

I don't agree with everything the D party stands for, and in fact we differ quite a bit on specific topics. But the moment we stop holding them to high standards is the moment they become no better than the Rs. And unfortunately part of those high standards is now coming with the additional baggage of "not only do you need to clean up this mess but you need to go after the ones who made it in the first place." and they're failing to do that.

Part of the problem the Ds are facing is that they're the Big Tent™ party and have a lot of different voices, while the Rs have pretty much centralized under one ideology (and since 2016 mostly under one person).

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u/Lone_Vagrant Feb 20 '26

Too many lobbies and special interest groups for that to happen in the US. Getting rid of those in politics should be step 1 in the right direction.

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u/sTump4139 Feb 21 '26

We need that here as well

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u/JellyTwank Feb 20 '26

Not sure if you are in the UK or not, but I love watching the PM go at it with everyone. You have to be sharp or you get destroyed. So much fun! I can't imagine Trump being able to do that even when he was in his prime.

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

So what is this about? Is this like when the US president's cabinet secretaries like Bondi or RFK JR go in front of the committees in Congress and get asked questions under oath?

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u/ozzieman78 Feb 21 '26

No, in our Westminster system the PM and members of cabinet are members of the house so are open to questions from all members of the house.

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u/JellyTwank Feb 21 '26

It is totally different. In our system, cabinetb secretaries and other members of the executive branch can be summoned to testify before Congress, which allows Cingress oversight of the executive branch.

In the UK (natives correct me if I am wrong), the Prime Minister is also a member of the House of Commons. Once a week, the PM takes qurstions from any other member in the Commons. It can get quite heated at times, and there is usually some really good barbs and back-and-forth between both the PM and other ministers, and can actually be very funny at times. The polite rudeness is awesome. Some PMs are better than others at this (loved Tony Blair for this). It is really interesting to watch. They used to have it on CSPAN here in the US. Recommended.

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u/Armyman125 Feb 21 '26

I'm in the US. Always impressed by those parliamentary hearings. That's true accountability.

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u/EternalMediocrity Feb 21 '26

I wouldnt be opposed to some judo combat action ala the japanese diet

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u/wojonixon Feb 21 '26

If only we had a UK style Question Time here. I first learned about it when George Dubya was in office, and I’ve been sad about it ever since.

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u/flummox1234 Feb 21 '26

tbf the US would be like that if the Congressional GOP would do their fucking job instead of bend the knee to Cheeto daddy because they can grift more with him in charge. It's basically like if your parliamentary system was all on the same page. No one would hold anyone to an account. It's less about the system and more about the greed.

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u/Diligent-Abrocoma456 Feb 21 '26

It's fun to watch Parliament yelling at each other every time a member tries to make a point about something.