Trump Says He Will Not Attend Supreme Court Hearing on Tariffs

President Donald Trump said he would skip attending the Supreme Court hearing this week over the legality of his worldwide tariffs regime.

“I don’t want to call a lot of attention to me,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One as he returned to Washington from his Mar-a-Lago estate on Sunday. “It’s not about me, it’s about our country.”

The court is scheduled on Wednesday to hear Trump’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that many of his “Liberation Day” tariffs exceeded the president’s emergency power to regulate imports.

Trump called the eventual Supreme Court ruling “one of the most important decisions in the history of the country.”

“If we don’t have tariffs, we don’t have national security, and the rest of the world would laugh at us because they’ve used tariffs against us for years and took advantage of us,” he said Sunday.

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Trump had said he felt an “obligation” to watch in person as the Supreme Court weighed his power to impose tariffs. If he had attended, he would have been the first sitting president in US history to attend oral arguments at the high court.

--With assistance from Jordan Fischer.

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