President Donald Trump said he will not attend this week’s Supreme Court hearing on the legality of the global tariff regime. Bloomberg reported that the president made the announcement while returning to Washington from his home in Mar-a-Lago on Sunday.
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“I don’t want to draw too much attention to myself,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “It’s not about me, it’s about our country.”
On Wednesday, the court is scheduled to hear Trump’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that many of the tariffs he imposed on Emancipation Day exceeded the president’s emergency authority to regulate imports.
Trump described the Supreme Court’s final ruling as “one of the most important decisions in the history of the country.”
“If we didn’t have tariffs, we wouldn’t have national security, and the rest of the world would laugh at us because they used tariffs against us for years and took advantage of us,” he said Sunday.
Trump said he felt “obligated” to personally watch while the Supreme Court weighs his authority to impose tariffs. If he had attended, he would have been the first president in US history to attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court.
Source: Market intelligence platform IndexBox
