‘Dude, what are you doing?’ Trump called out for ignoring court’s political lifeline

President Donald Trump continues to rage against the U.S. Supreme Court for ruling against his global tariffs and threatened to impose them anyway — and CNN’s Harry Enten warned him he was backing a real political loser.

The 79-year-old president threatened new “obnoxious” tariffs in his global trade war after the court struck down his “liberation day” duties as unlawful, but Enten told “CNN News Central” that most voters agreed with the ruling against him.

“I would just say, ‘Dude, president, what are you doing, man?” Enten said. “The American people are with the Supreme Court, they’re not with you. I mean, just take a look here, you can see it really clearly. Americans on SCOTUS and Trump’s tariffs, the court should should overturn, look at this: overall, 63 percent, the clear majority want it overturned, and then you look at independents, 69 percent, a very nice 69 percent say that they wanted overturned as well, and I will note the [Marquette University] Law poll has actually sometimes had this independents higher, into the 70s. This is actually a relatively low point, and it’s still more than two thirds of independents who say that the court should overturn those tariffs.”

The court’s decision actually offered the president a political lifeline that he has so far refused to grab, Enten said.

“I would just say, to quote George Costanza, the Supreme Court did Donald Trump a favor and he should stop all of this, but he’s not,” Enten said. “Why do I say that? Because just take a look here: Trump’s net approval rating on trade and tariffs during his entire second term, every single poll that meets CNN standard for publication, every single one he’s underwater in all of them, all of them dating back to last year.

“Even when he was inaugurated, his overall net approval rating was positive but on trade, he was negative. There’s not a single poll, not a single poll, in which his net approval rating on trade and tariffs during his entire entire second term, in which it was positive. Again, as I said, the court did Trump a favor. You might expect him to step off but based upon going on Truth Social his truths he’s doing anything but that.”

“He seems really focused on tariffs and the American people don’t want that at all,” Enten added. “They don’t want that at all. Just take a look at this: The Trump admin is focusing too much on tariffs, 60 percent, three in five Americans saying the Trump administration is too focused on tariffs. This is where they want him focused too little on lowering prices, 74 percent. The clear majority of Americans believe that Trump is not focused on the economy, not focused on the economy, and too focused on tariffs.”