Trump Throws DERANGED TANTRUM after COURT DEFEAT!!!
Donald Trump completely losing it and. throwing a tantrum after a DC Circuit. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower. court's ruling blocking the construction. of the so-called ballroom, which Donald. Trump now claims is his shield, is his. drone port, is his is his shield against. the ballistic missiles targeting the. White House. That's how he's describing. it right now. The DC Circuit Court of. Appeals affirmed a Republican judge,
who's the District Court judge, who. said, "Look, Donald, you want to build. your ballroom? No. There's something called the property. clause in the United States. Constitution. That is the role of. Congress to provide you the funding for. it. Go to Congress if that's what you. want to do. You claim there's some. national security reasons for needing. bunkers and hospitals and military. facilities under the White House. Okay, you can do that underneath the White. House, but above ground, we're not.
buying that it's a shield. It's a shield. for you, okay? The District Court said. no, the DC Circuit said, "We don't buy. the ballroom is a shield. Feel free to. build your security compound underneath, but not the ballroom. And we're not. buying your argument that the ballroom. is part of the hospital and the bunker. underneath, so no. We'll give you 14. days if you want to appeal this to the. Supreme Court." This was a two-to-one. decision. The Trump-appointed judge. said, "No." In the dissent, Trump can do.
There was basically a standing argument. in the dissent that the majority. shouldn't Nobody has standing to sue. Trump. Nobody can stop him. And so. therefore, we won't even get to the. merits because there's no standing." So, Donald Trump posting on social media. this 3,000-word. ranting and raving like a lunatic post. I'm not going to read for you the full. thing, but here's what he says. I'll. just give you some of the lowlights of. it. Trump saying, "The decision has been.
stayed and does not take effect for a. period of time. We will be immediately. appealing to the Supreme Court. The. military and Secret Service are viewing. this horrendous, politically motivated, and unlawful ruling as a national. security threat to our nation, and that. the entire complex is being built for. the protection of our country and. additionally all future presidents. The. single integrated project includes bomb. shelters, a state-of-the-art hospital, medical facilities, protective. partitioning, top secret military.
facility structures and equipments, protective missile resistant steel. columns, roofs, and beams, drone proof. ceilings and roofs, military grade. venting and bullet ballistic and blast. proof glass. It's all tied together as. one big, expensive, and very complex unit, which is vital to. the national security and military. operations. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.". You are literally a loser. You are. pathetic. There's been no former.
president Well, you know what I need? I. need a shield. I need a shield in the. people's house, and I'm going to call it. a ballroom, and it's going to be a. ballroom shield. Trump's lawyers in. arguments, both in writing and before. the district court, said, "The ballroom. is independent from what's happening. underneath." That's one of the things. that was cited by the federal judge and. the DC circuit. Aha! When Trump is in. court and his lawyers are in court, they. say one thing. When Trump is on social.
media ranting and raving like the. psychotic lunatic that he is, he lies. and says something else, including lying. that the taxpayers don't have to pay for. this. Of course we have to pay for this. Hundreds and millions of dollars, perhaps billions of dollars in taxpayer. dollars, like 1.2 billion when you talk. about this bunker and all the other. things that are happening here that no. taxpayer wants right now at all. And how. pathetic is it that he wants this vanity. ballroom so badly that he now says that.
this is what the country needs. And it. just goes to show you also that he. believes he is the country. He don't give a about the rest of. us. Thinks he's the country, that he. needs this, and so if he needs it, that's in the national interest. No, screw you, honestly. And it's stuff like. this while the American people are. suffering right now, while people can't. afford anything, that has pissed people. the hell off. And now he's going to go. to his Supreme Court begging like the. little baby that he is for his freaking.
golden ballroom while most Americans. can't even afford their rent next month. I want to bring in Harry Litman from the. Talking Fed's YouTube channel, Substack, and podcast. Now, Harry, we reported on Friday about the DC. Circuit order, 136. pages, okay? It was very well reasoned. It cites what Trump's lawyer said. It. cites the Constitution. It cites all of. the laws that are at play here, and also. common sense. No other president just. woke up one day and said, "You know.
what? I'm going to just wreck an entire. wing of it." And and there by the way, there are going to be massive health. issues down the road, I believe, in my. opinion, with the asbestos. There was no. asbestos mitigation. We know from this. order, too, there were lots of surveys. that were actually done that the. National Park Service covered up that. said, "This is bad for DC. It's bad for. the environment." This And it was just. ignored and then just 48 hours, Trump. just demolishes the thing. And now he's. whining. Just whining. And and and it's.
just loser behavior. Harry, where does. this go from here? What do you make of. the ruling? But where does this go from. here? He goes to the It seems like a. very well-reasoned decision. I wouldn't. be shocked if the Supreme Court stays it. just for cuz that's kind of their. automatic reflex, But, I can't imagine. the Supreme Court But, you know, who. knows? Maybe they'll say on standing. I. don't know. But, you know, these types. of cases are the limited areas where the. Supreme Court has been a little bit. hands-off while giving Trump kind of.
full authority in other areas. What do. you make of it? >> Yeah, let's start with the opinion. itself, Ben. It is really fine. uh as just as a matter of judicial. craft. It's 136 pages. Really, what's at. play here is should they overturn a. stay? And that's this familiar, but not. so uh scrupulously followed by some. courts, including the highest court in. the land, four-part test of who's likely. to win and where are the balance of.
equities and where's the irreparable. harm. They do it really in an, you know, exquisite, punctilious way, I think. But, more than that, I think Judge. Willett wrote this in part for us. Uh. Justice Jackson does this sometimes and. Justice Kagan as well. It really, I. would commend, including maybe. especially to non-lawyers. This is a few. paragraphs in the first few pages that. really sound the broader important.
themes. Themes like he's got no power. here and all this has to be with. Congress. Themes like he doesn't get a. get-out-of-law. free card uh to quote that. Things like. uh you built the hole in the ground. yourself and now you're saying, "Oh, no, it's a That's what makes it so exigent.". It doesn't work that way. They They. cleanly sort of fillet him on his main. um arguments and they do it with.
paragraphs that, you know, he they the comes at us every week. as it has this week and we break it down. and the Midas mighty and you. a lot of we break it down into the fine. legal points and it's sometimes hard to. just keep focus on what we're talking. about. We're talking about a president. You know, they another thing they say. very clearly, no president owns the. White House. You're a temporary occupant. and it's quite clear that's the law, but.
he somehow wants to just completely blow. up to crap the beautiful much loved and. American kind of skyline of the DC so we. have the White House. Every seventh. grader, you know, goes there, sees it. It's neoclassical and modest in design. It's not imperial and Buckingham Palace. and Trumpian because it expresses who we.
are and one president coming in and just. crapping all over that to make a. personal, as you very well put it, vanity project. You know, they they. that's wrong under the law. There's not. the power under the law. There's the. statute that Congress passed that makes. it clear that you they they just can't. do it, but also it's like wrong. Wrong. for the democracy, wrong sort of. thematically for the people we are and. what the people's house means to us and.
the opinion handles that very well. Um okay, the stay thing goes on and on. I would just want to on one of the four. points. they you know, that we we have a mad a. mad woman and has to be said in dissent. who I think. it's really hard to you know, I think. her uh it's certainly this was true in. the Big Bowesberg case we covered and. and the contempt there that's still. going on. She writes often and here is. one of them for an audience of one. That. would be the person who might appoint.
the next Supreme Court Justice, but she. says. the irreparable injury part. On the one. hand, you have plaintiffs, us, and the. possibility that this beautiful, serene, you know, built way back when. part of the of DC will just be turned. into this grotesque, gaudy mausoleum. That's irreparable injury. What does she. say is irreparable injury? Basically, that Trump won't be able to, you know,
do his. thing. So, uh you know, I think the stay. arguments are much stronger and really. laid out well by Judge Millett. Here is. though, you put your finger on the the. scary part coming up. The plaintiffs here is the are the. historic, you know, trust preservation. They came in and said, and it's true, all this stuff. It's always illegal. The. question is, do you have the right. plaintiff? They came in and said, here's.
all the things you didn't comply with. The judge below, you're right, the. Republican appointed judge below, didn't make it easy for them. He nah, you didn't get it right yet. Nah, not. yet. And then finally, we're at this. point where if you really say cuz of. this hole you built that you had no. business building, that it's dangerous, fine. Secure it. Now, Trump brazenly has. tried to actually use that as his. argument on the merits, that in fact, you need this 90,000. ft mausoleum square foot mausoleum in.
the sky for security. Uh-uh. That doesn't It might It might. have the finest security. Of course, it. might not. It's Donald Trump talking. But you don't need it for that reason. Um but here's the rub, uh Ben. So, the. the plaintiffs are able to say it's. absolutely established law, and they. applied it correctly in the DC Court of. Appeals, a so-called aesthetic injury. Essentially, they're saying, not like. I'm a guy who passes the White House.
once every couple years. It's this We're. a society with that. a association that deals with the DC. kind of landscape and all those things. It's really a part and okay, this this. grotesque order doesn't cost us money, but it's an aesthetic injury and. there it is well established law. It's. pretty much the. established law for all environmental.
cases that if it's a if there's a. certain intensity, then there's. standing. The rub is I know I'm taking a little. while to get to the point, but the whole. notion of it as really sticks in. conservative judges cross. They don't. like aesthetic injury. That sounds to. them airy-fairy and you know, you just. kind of care about things but but. whereas, you know, if you had a quarter. injury, that that should count. This is. going to go to the Supreme Court and I.
believe and and they've already given. that the DC Circuit was we'll stay we'll. give you two weeks just to do it. We. won't even put our order into effect. Trump's already run there. And but their. argument's going to be no standing. You. I really think that will be the main. thing as opposed to the to the whole. calculus about the four factors and the. Supreme Court, unlike the court of. appeals, is in a position to say and you. and I can identify right now two or. three justices who will say it. Yeah,
aesthetic injury, that's too namby-pamby. for our vision of the Constitution. So, what really could be at stake is a. holding that the National Historic Trust. Preservation that is the plaintiff here. that the judge below, the the Circuit. Court green-lighted, doesn't have the. the standing under the Constitution. That might mean that nobody does. Uh and it would certainly be a rewriting.
of the law that would have massive. implications for environmental law and. the like. That's, however, where I think. the fight is going to be in the Supreme. Court. And emergency dockets, so to. speak, uh proposition will be fought. with. um no briefing, no oral argument. The. right answer here, Justice Kagan. recently made this point in the 9th. Circuit. The right answer here is the. republic's not going to end if he can't. build this stupid. uh. uh.
ballroom in the sky. So, one day we'll we'll we can think about. the standing question with real briefing. and um real oral argument. We're not. going to use this hurried-up emergency. emergency motion to actually. slice out, you know, aesthetic uh. standing that's been so. well-established. But, that's the. concrete risk both for reversing. the court of appeals and for really uh.
gutting environmental law is if the. court changes where things now stand and. says uh aesthetic standing, nah, we. don't think so. >> Harry Litman runs the Talking Feds. YouTube channel. Everybody after this. video, search Talking Feds, you'll see. Harry's legal updates. Click on the. videos there, in the comments, tell. Harry Ben says WTF America. And then while you're at it, get a copy.
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