Trump launches barrage of Truth Social assaults on the Supreme Court, the Wall Street Journal and wind farms | EUROtoday

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump fired off a barrage of Truth Social posts concentrating on an array of home and overseas entities lengthy aware of his relentless criticism.

In the span of roughly 90 minutes, he singled out the Supreme Court, The Wall Street Journalthe renewable vitality trade and the Iranian regime.

The president’s on-line remarks capped off his day on the White House, throughout which he attended coverage conferences, hosted faculty athletes within the State Dining Room and took part in a marathon Bible-reading occasion.

Here is a breakdown of what the 79-year-old Republican president mentioned on Tuesday night.

6:56 p.m. – ‘Ineffective’ Wind farms

Shortly earlier than 7 p.m. Eastern Time, Trump introduced {that a} pair of Pennsylvania coal vegetation that had been slated to shut in 2028 might be saved open.

Governor Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, and the Commerce Department agreed to take care of operations on the vegetation situated in Armstrong and Indiana Counties, he mentioned.

“Radical Left Lunatics wanted to get rid of these wonderful Plants in favor of WIND FARMS, which kill the birds, and are both costly and ineffective,” the president wrote. “We will never allow that to happen!”

Trump has lengthy campaigned in opposition to wind vitality, repeatedly branding wind farms as noisy, unpleasant, inefficient and dangerous sufficient to drive “the whales crazy.” Scientists have disputed his claims.

7:35 p.m. – WSJ has ‘LOST ITS WAY!’

Less than an hour later, the president tore into The Wall Street Journala New York-based information outlet owned by the media firm of billionaire Rupert Murdoch.

The paper has “LOST ITS WAY,” the president wrote.

“An IDIOT on The Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board, named Elliot Kaufman, just wrote an Op Ed entitled, ‘The Iranians Take Trump for a Sucker.’ Really? For 47 years, they have killed our people, and many others, and taken advantage of every President, except me — And what did I give to them, a Country in tatters,” he continued.

“I guess Rupert Murdoch told him to write it this way,” he mentioned, describing the outlet as “just another failing political ‘RAG!’”

Kaufman responded by reposting a picture of Trump’s Truth Social put up on X, writing: “My wife: . . . you’re still going to do the dishes tonight, right?”

Earlier this month, a federal choose dismissed the president’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit in opposition to The WSJ and the journalists and publishers who reported on an alleged “bawdy” birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein, which the president claims doesn’t exist.

The Independent has reached out to The WSJ for remark.

7:45 p.m. – ‘Politically correct’ Supreme Court

Shortly after, Trump posted a 340-word assault on the Supreme Court, concentrating on each its liberal and conservative justices, who’ve dominated in opposition to his administration in a number of excessive profile circumstances.

“Wacko James Carville, a so-called Democrat ‘strategist,’ wants the Democrats to make D.C. and Puerto Rico States and, most importantly, pack the Supreme Court, putting 13 Justices on the Court,” the GOP president wrote.

He claimed that Democrats are “already doing great” in terms of the nation’s highest courtroom.

“The Democrat Justices stick together like glue, totally loyal to the people and ideology that got them there,” he wrote. “Certain Republican Appointees let the Democrats push them around, always wanting to be popular, politically correct, or even worse, wanting to show how ‘independent’ they are, with very little loyalty to the man who appointed them.”

In a 6-3 vote in February, the Supreme Court struck down the president’s sweeping tariff regime as unconstitutional, dealing a seismic blow to one of many president’s signature financial insurance policies. The courtroom is anticipated to rule on birthright citizenship — which Trump has tried to finish through govt order — earlier than its summer time recess.

8:36 p.m. – Iran and the Strait of Hormuz

The billionaire president then turned to overseas coverage, zeroing in on the Iran struggle, which has engulfed giant swaths of the Middle East in violence and sparked fears of worldwide financial chaos.

“Iran doesn’t want the Strait of Hormuz closed, they want it open so they can make $500 Million Dollars a day,” Trump wrote. “They only say they want it closed because I have it totally BLOCKADED (CLOSED!), so they merely want to ‘save face.’”

“People approached me four days ago, saying, ‘Sir, Iran wants to open up the Strait, immediately.’ But if we do that, there can never be a Deal with Iran, unless we blow up the rest of their Country, their leaders included,” he added.

His feedback got here hours after Trump introduced the U.S. would lengthen its ceasefire with Iran that was on account of expire Wednesday, on the request of Pakistan authorities. Even amid the ceasefire, the Strait of Hormuz, a significant artery of world commerce, has remained largely closed on account of dueling blockades by Iran and the U.S.

“So we now have no timeline on the ceasefire, no timeline on the blockade and, let’s face it, no timeline on the war,” Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, instructed CNN after the extension was revealed. “Donald Trump has painted himself right into a nook and he cannot discover an exit.”

Multiple current polls point out a majority of Americans are against the struggle, which has led to a surge in fuel costs.