The week that proved Trump is far from invincible

There are weeks when, it seems, everything comes to the head. This week could well be considered, with hindsight, as one of them – when the wheels started out of the Trump train.

On Wednesday, a panel of federal judges for the American Court of International Trade judged that the vast majority of the prices of the “Liberation Day” of Donald Trump were illegal. The two proceedings against the unilateral taxation of the President’s prices were brought by a libertarian outfit, the Liberty Justice Center, and by a coalition of 12 states, led by Oregon, which claimed that Trump abused the Act respecting international economic powers in the use of its authority to set up the broadest rate of the country in a century.

While the Trump administration instantly called on this decision and obtained a temporary break on its implementation, paradoxically, it could give the imperial presidency something of a tariff war ramp which was characterized by radical measures, generally promulgated via the publications of the social media early on the morning of Trump, followed by a rapid recovery. This has therefore become that adversaries ridicule these actions as “tacos prices”, the acronym defends himself “Trump Always Chickens outside”.

Now, Trump, who has passed the Memorial Day to publish on the judicial “monsters” which continue to oppose his program, can blame the courts for the decline in prices, then pivot the real endless Grift business. Witness of the crypto dinner last week, held in a Trump golf club outside DC, during which the best donors of the parts program even $ Trump had personal access to the chief grifter to put pressure for their pet projects, to push the deregulation of the cryptographic industry and present their list of personal conmenial favorites. Roller said that the average amount that the participants have punished was $ 1 million. And The Wall Street Journal Calculated that $ 148 million was spent on the same by dinner participants. It was a claw masterclass – and which can come back to bite the administration.

Since Trump would not even have talked to most participants and that food was apparently mediocre at best, we could argue that it was a surprising example of waste, abuse and fraud. The waste came from the participants, who were gullible enough to fall for the rank of Trump. The abuses and fraud were abundantly distributed by the host. This is the kind of thing that, if the administration was serious about its mission to eliminate these three evils which would have divided the government and those who have control of the levers of power, Doge would have been everywhere.

But, if you have read the news this week, you will know that Trump and Elon Musk have had a long -awaited fall – one that has always been inevitable since the two men have known their own megalomaniac ambitions. It was, in other words, a bromance dedicated to the direction of the divorce courts.

In a CBS interview, Musk denied the “big and beautiful” and the great “Trump bill; This follows the recent criticism of Trump’s pricing policies. Trump reacted in kind; In recent weeks, he has ceased to tweet the applause of his favorite technology and no longer mentions it in briefings and press conferences of the White House. The manic energy of the first months of Trump 2.0, when the saw channel – musk, could not hurt maga -man’s eyes, was replaced by an end of the Sly relationship.

On Wednesday, the White House reported that the “Musk outboard will start tonight”. For an administration that feeds on the public spectacle, there was a remarkable shortage of pizzazz accompanying the return of Musk to the private sector after its vicious term as DOGE sweeten the chief-copres-president. The man who has not celebrated Trump’s victory so long with not one but two Sieg Heil Gestures were simply away, alone and unwavering, in his exile from Tromplandia.

While Musk stands out from the political foul field in which he was anchored – and helped feed – in January, the courts seem to stiffen their spine in their resistance to many unconstitutional policies of Trump. This week, not only did the New York court put Kibosh on Trump’s pricing wave, but other Trump decrees targeting individual law firms; on the efforts of the administration to punish Harvard by refusing him the right to register international students; On his refusal to request the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the Salvador prison in which he is detained; On his efforts Bilious to expel a group of migrants to the country desperately impoverished and torn by the war in South Sudan; And during the current detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a judge concluded is probably unconstitutional.

None of this means that Trump will not continue to trigger enormous acts of vandalism against vital American institutions, as the efforts show this week to hurry Harvard to the point of destruction; by movements to strip a large number of Chinese students from their right to study in American universities; by the despicable effort of the congress to neutralize the courts when they govern against the administration by essentially making the impossibility of imposing enforceable civil sanctions against civil servants deemed to be outrageous in the court; And by the Ministry of Health and Social Services led by RFK JR. The latter will surely accelerate the already accelerated brain flight of the best talents of the American government and universities to research establishments abroad.

But that is to say that the momentum could move subtly. An administration which, for almost 20 weeks, sought to be done as invincible, turns out to be anything but. The Trump-Musk Alliance broke down, the courts did not buy what Trump sells and, day by day, the nudity of Trump’s corruption and cruelty has become more difficult to ignore. I may be wrong, and all this can prove to be more than diving in the Trump motorway. But this week is slightly different. Trump seems a little more vulnerable than him, and that must be a good thing.