Kara Swisher

A federal judge temporarily halted construction on his beloved White House ballroom, saying it needs Congress's authorization.

And Congress doesn't seem to be moving on it.

Trump's executive order cutting funding to NPR and PBS was struck down, a judge ruling it violated the First Amendment.

Another judge ruled that civil suit against Trump for his actions on January 6th can go forward and that the presidential immunity does not apply to his speech that day, talking to supporters before they marched to the Capitol.

And one more, a judge in Texas blocked a Trump-backed deal allowing churches to endorse political candidates.

Trump also was at the Supreme Court on Wednesday very briefly listening to arguments about whether his executive order will limit to limit birthright citizenship as constitutional.

The justices seemed skeptical, and that's being kind.

His latest order restricting mail-in voting ahead of the 2026 election is already facing legal challenges, and he's going to lose.

He's going to lose badly on that one.

So pick a case, any case.

And I mean, this is what he does.

He transgresses with illegal actions and then everyone's picking up the pieces and pushing back legally.

And he does damage in that wake.

He's going to lose on every one of these things, it seems like.

Does it matter?

The only one he cares about is the ballroom, from what I can tell.

The justice has pointed that out.

Why do the maximalist thing when the minimalist thing is how they get things?

That's how they got to abortion.

They slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly ate at it.