With the U.S. Supreme Court ruling the reciprocal tariff illegal, analyses are mounting that President Donald Trump, who pushed for it, is bound to take a political hit.
On the 20th (local time), the New York Times (NYT) said, "The Supreme Court's ruling dealt a major blow to Trump's economic policy," and "brought new uncertainty to global markets that have been struggling to adapt to rapidly shifting U.S. trade policy."
The BBC said, "The era in which a president could threaten, or even impose, triple-digit tariff rates with a flick of a pen or a click of a social media post is now over."
The BBC said, "The ruling also left a blemish on the 'invincible' image Trump had apparently maintained," and predicted, "With the president's tariff authority now constrained, America's trading partners are likely to take a tougher stance against the United States going forward."
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) assessed, "The ruling squarely rejected the extraordinary pressure campaign Trump directed at the Court during the proceedings, and marks the first time the Court has definitively nullified a government policy in Trump's second term."
Regarding the Trump administration's next steps, the WSJ predicted, "There are other tools to reimpose tariffs, but those statutes come with procedural constraints and are unlikely to permit tariffs as sweeping as the measure the court struck down."
The Washington Post (WP) analyzed, "The ruling is a crippling blow to one of Trump's signature policies and a painful political setback," adding, "The Supreme Court has given the green light to most of his agenda over the past year since his return to power, but this delivered the most significant setback."
It added, "This effectively strips a core tool from the president's foreign policy," and stressed, "Trump's plan to pressure world leaders and reshape the international order in his second term has also lost momentum."