President Donald Trump issued a warning about the courts on social media over the weekend, saying the U.S. judicial system could be the “economic ruination” of America if they rule against his administration’s tariffs.

“If the Courts somehow rule against us on Tariffs, which is not expected, that would allow other Countries to hold our Nation hostage with their anti-American Tariffs that they would use against us,” Trump wrote Sunday afternoon on his Truth Social platform. “This would mean the Economic ruination of the United States of America!”

The president’s imposition of economic tariffs on imported goods has run into strong opposition from the courts, however, an emergency stay on the Court of International Trade’s ruling against Trump’s tariffs is keeping them in place, for now.

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