Trump lashes out at 'disappointing' Supreme Court ruling
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has lashed out at the US Supreme Court, after judges struck down his sweeping trade tariffs. The president has outlined a new plan to retain some of the levies, but the details are not clear. Also: the British government reviews the royal line of succession, as the police investigate Andrew's links to Jeffrey Epstein -- the former prince denies wrongdoing; Ukraine-Russia peace talks gather pace; what's the future of the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank; North Korea holds its biggest political event in five years; and NASA sets a date to send astronauts back around the Moon.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.3 | If American politics is leaving you with a lot of questions, you're not alone. |
| 0:12.3 | On America's, we chat through what's really going on. |
| 0:15.3 | Make sense of what's happening in the US, with new podcast episodes arriving throughout the week. |
| 0:20.6 | America's, listen on BBC Science. |
| 0:23.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:28.5 | I'm Keith Adams, and at 4.30 hours GMT on Saturday the 21st of February, these are our main |
| 0:34.7 | stories. Donald Trump outlines new plans to keep some global trade tariffs after the Supreme Court struck down most of his existing levies as illegal. The family of a Palestinian-American teenager killed by a Jewish settler in the occupied West Bank call for accountability for his death. |
| 1:00.0 | Also in this podcast, a British minister says the government is considering introducing legislation to remove Andrew Mountbatten Windsor from the Royal Line of Succession. |
| 1:04.5 | What does it mean for Commonwealth countries who share the British royal family and name things after them? |
| 1:11.0 | There's a Prince Andrew Court. |
| 1:12.8 | There's the Duke of York Boulevard. |
| 1:15.4 | There's the Prince Andrew Drive. |
| 1:17.4 | There is Prince Andrew Island. |
| 1:19.9 | And NASA shares some dates and excitement. |
| 1:23.4 | You know, every night I look up at the moon and I see it. |
| 1:32.0 | And I get real excited because I can really feel she's calling us and we're ready. |
| 1:45.5 | Donald Trump has called tariffs the most beautiful word in the dictionary and there's been a powerful tool in his arsenal. So he was furious when the US Supreme Court struck down his sweeping trade tariffs policy. The judges |
| 1:51.3 | decided, six to three, that the president's decision to introduce levies under the International |
| 1:56.9 | Emergency Economic Powers Act was unlawful. President Trump had himself appointed two of the judges who ruled the tariffs should have |
| 2:05.3 | been approved by Congress. |
| 2:06.9 | At a press conference, he called those who voted against him fools and lap docks. |
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