Has Trump just been humiliated by his own judges?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Trump is not a happy bunny. It all started on Friday when the Supreme Court declared his tariffs - the backbone of his economic policy - illegal. By this morning it was worse. He’s stomping around threatening the Supreme Court with a lower-case, no caps name (seriously) and warning his tariffs policy is about to get "more obnoxious".
Has the ruling delivered a fatal blow to his authority? Can leaders around the world see that? And will they respond by toughening up their own stance on trade?
Later, Australia confirms it’s ready to drop Andrew from the line of Royal succession. The first of 14 commonwealth countries that need to give sign off to the act of parliament. Is this a help or a hindrance to Keir Starmer ?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.5 | I mean, the whole thing is a farce. |
| 0:13.8 | I talk about petulance. |
| 0:15.0 | It was 10% two days ago, maybe 20% tomorrow. |
| 0:19.3 | I mean, this is madness. |
| 0:20.6 | He's flailing. He's a punch drunk boxer. He's just this is madness. He's flailing. |
| 0:21.3 | He's a punch drunk boxer. |
| 0:23.3 | He's just trying to hit anything. |
| 0:26.1 | A shadow. |
| 0:27.0 | And he's a shadow of himself. |
| 0:28.2 | He's lost a step or two. |
| 0:29.3 | That is Gavin Newsom, the governor of California. |
| 0:32.5 | And no prize is for guessing who he's talking about. |
| 0:35.5 | The president, Donald Trump, and the rebuff served up to him |
| 0:39.2 | by the Supreme Court over tariffs. Last week, it struck down the backbone of Trump's economic |
| 0:45.8 | policy, and the president took it pretty well. Just joking, he really didn't. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 0:57.6 | The He really didn't. Welcome to the newsagents. The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. |
| 1:00.8 | And it was a long-awaited decision by the Supreme Court, who, when they were hearing the case last year, you could tell that the justices thought, hang on a minute, the way Donald Trump |
| 1:13.3 | has introduced these tariffs is all wrong. And what Donald Trump had done was to use emergency |
| 1:19.9 | economic legislation to say there is a national security emergency, we need to impose these |
| 1:26.1 | tariffs now on all these countries around the world. |
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