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On Friday morning, the president was speaking to a group of governors in the East Room of the White House when Jameson Greer, the trade representative, handed him a note alerting him to the Supreme Court's decision.
The president told the governors it was a disgrace.
He lashed out at the Supreme Court and quickly wrapped up that meeting and left.
And he was irate.
He met with advisers, and then we saw that full-blown anger on display in the White House briefing room a few hours later.
And for Trump, this wasn't just a political loss, but a personal one, too.
He has been obsessed with tariffs as an economic tool for decades, long before his political career.
And so this felt like a real personal loss to something he deeply believes in.
Yeah, it was quite a whiplash over just less than 24 hours where the president came out to the briefing room and announced these 10% tariffs.
Later that evening, Friday, he signed the official paperwork instituting those 10% tariffs.
And then Saturday morning, he announces this 15% tariff on social media.
And what I will tell you, Natalie, is that
Many of the president's advisors and people close to the White House were surprised and taken aback by the rapid change from 10% to 15%.
Some have speculated that the president was frustrated by the media coverage of his loss at the Supreme Court and wanted to show that he still had power to raise tariffs even more.
But we have not heard from the president since then about precisely why he made this change less than 24 hours later.
And Andrew makes a great point because this is of utmost importance to the president himself.
I was just with the president in Georgia on Thursday where he was touting these various business executives who told him that they were
moving manufacturing or expanding manufacturing in the United States because of his tariffs.
This is of personal pride to the president.
So if companies are changing their plans or making new plans, they run the risk of some sort of retribution campaign from the president who feels extremely proud of the impact he believes tariffs are having in reshaping the American economy and reviving the manufacturing sector.