Trump imposes new 10% tariff after Supreme Court rejection
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🗓️ 21 February 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
US President Donald Trump has imposed a new 10% global tariff to replace ones struck down by the Supreme Court, calling the ruling "terrible" and lambasting the justices who rejected his trade policy as "fools".
Also on the programme, French President Emmanuel Macron has appealed for calm ahead of a march in Lyon remembering a right-wing student activist who was killed by suspected left-wing extremists earlier this month; and, conservationists are celebrating the reintroduction of giant tortoises to one of the Galapagos Islands -- nearly two centuries after the sub-species was wiped out.
(Photo: U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Solicitor General D. John Sauer attend a press briefing at the White House, following the Supreme Court's ruling that Trump had exceeded his authority when he imposed tariffs, in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 20, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.9 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:13.8 | We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm Leila Nathie. |
| 0:16.9 | Let's start in the US, where the Supreme Court has taken aim at the tool at the heart of President Trump's economic and foreign policy, ruling most of the tariffs he announced last year as illegal. |
| 0:29.7 | Six out of the nine Supreme Court justices, including two he himself appointed, said he had overstepped his authority by using emergency legislation |
| 0:38.6 | to impose them. |
| 0:40.2 | At a press conference after the verdict was announced, President Trump railed against the |
| 0:44.3 | decision and attacked the justices as disloyal. |
| 0:47.8 | Foreign countries that have been ripping us off for years are ecstatic. |
| 0:52.9 | They're so happy. |
| 1:00.0 | And they're dancing in the streets, but they won't be dancing for long, that I can assure you. The Democrats on the court are thrilled, but they will automatically vote no. |
| 1:05.0 | They're an automatic no, just like in Congress. |
| 1:07.0 | They're an automatic no. |
| 1:09.0 | They're against anything that makes America strong, |
| 1:12.2 | healthy and great again. They also are a, frankly, disgrace to our nation, those justices. |
| 1:20.4 | Well, Democrats did welcome the ruling. The Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said the |
| 1:25.8 | tariffs had hurt ordinary Americans. |
| 1:28.4 | Glaringly, amazingly, a vital and important point is missing from the president's speech, |
| 1:35.6 | that his tariffs have dramatically increased costs on American families. |
| 1:41.2 | Costs of so many things have gone up because of these tariffs and the American people |
| 1:45.7 | hate the tariffs because it's increased their costs. Well, President Trump went on to announce |
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