Trump Says He Regrets His 3 Supreme Court Picks
The Facts
- U.S. President Donald Trump said in a Time magazine interview published Thursday that he regrets nominating Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, saying, "They voted against me too often."
- The interview was conducted Monday at the White House and lasted 75 minutes in the Oval Office, according to Time. Trump said he gave the three justices "the position of a lifetime" and that they vote against him often, though they also vote for him.
- Asked whether he wanted loyalty from his Supreme Court picks, Trump first said, "I do like loyalty, yeah," then said, "No, I don't want loyalty. I want good decisions." He called the court's tariff ruling disastrous for the country.
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The Spin
Pro-Trump narrative
A lifetime appointment should not turn into a lifetime of betrayal. Justices handed the seat of a lifetime owe the country the originalist backbone they promised in those confirmation hearings, not a slow drift toward the bloc that never budges. When nominees picked to restore constitutional limits keep siding against the agenda voters elected, on issues like birthright citizenship and mail-in voting, the disappointment is more than earned.
Anti-Trump narrative
Judges owe loyalty to the Constitution, not to the man who nominated them, and the demand for personal allegiance from the bench shows a stunning misunderstanding of what courts are for. The grievance is also wildly out of proportion to a winning record that includes emergency docket victories north of 70%. Treating every loss as treachery only corrodes the one institution standing between power and abuse.
