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The Supreme Court has just slapped him not on something marginal. I mean, this is something right at the very core of his power.

It's fundamental both through his economic policy and to his foreign policy. It's his favourite instrument. It's the thing that allows him to play the mini-emperip. The violence of the language he uses when he doesn't get his own way does underline the worry that people have that he basically is a wannabe king, a wannabe dictator. He actually said at one point, I have the power to destroy the country,

brackets, if I don't get my way. We really are now looking down the barrel of somebody who wants

to run this country, like Putin runs Russia. That's why I think it was so significant.

Welcome to the rest of politics question time with me, Aleister Campbell.

And with me, Rory Stewart.

Apologies if you're confused about question time coming before the main episode.

That is because for the main episode, Roy and I are going to talk the whole episode about Ukraine, the war four years on from Putin's so-called special military operation, which of course was a full-on invasion.

It's the anniversary of the war. Indeed, it's also the anniversary to something said of this

podcast, because you may remember we started the whole thing roughly around the time

the Ukraine war. So that will come a day after this question time where we're going to talk

about Trump and Tariffs. We're going to talk about former Prince Andrew and Epstein. We're going

to talk about the school's white paper. Rory, where do you want to start? Why don't we start,

as you say,

with tariffs, which we got a lot of questions on, and I'm going to take one particular one,

which has come in from Ben? Could Trump simply just ignore the Supreme Court ruling on tariffs?

My understanding is Supreme Court decisions have been ignored before, see Andrew Jackson

and his callous slaughter of Native Americans. If you instructed the government to ignore it and try to suggest the people that he alone was the sole answer to America's existential crisis and exploitations, could he? I mean, it's not like Congress could impeach him. Let's, before we get into the sort of details of Ben's question, try to just remind people where we are, because I think oddly, this is something we covered a huge

amount on this famous Liberation Day tariffs. So about 10 months ago, Trump announced these

astonishing array of tariffs where people will remember islands full of penguins were getting

tariffed, Lesotho was getting terrible treatment, etc, etc, etc, etc. That was sort of one big wave.

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