President Trump says he regrets nominating Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett after they voted against him on tariffs, birthright citizenship and mail-in voting.

The Hill reported that President Trump, in a Time magazine interview published Thursday, said he regrets putting all three of his Supreme Court picks on the bench.

He tied that regret to a string of high-court losses on core agenda items, tariffs, birthright citizenship and mail-in voting, and said the justices he elevated have voted against him too often.

“Yeah. Yeah. What can I do? I put them in,” Trump told Time.

“They voted against me too often,”

he added, before noting he still wins some of their votes.

“I gave them the position of a lifetime, and they vote against me often. They vote for me too.”

February tariffs ruling set off the clash

In February, the Supreme Court struck down the bulk of Trump’s tariffs in a 6-3 decision. The majority rejected his expanded use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs on nearly every country.

Gorsuch and Barrett joined that ruling against the administration. Trump has called the outcome disastrous for the country and said he wants good decisions, not personal scorekeeping.

“The tariff decision was disastrous for the country. I want good decisions for the country,” he said.

Months earlier, the president had already unloaded on two of his own appointees over the same fight. The New York Post reported that Trump said of Gorsuch and Barrett, “Not that it matters, doesn’t matter at all, but two of the people that voted for that I appointed, and they sicken me.”

IEEPA tariffs had collected $133 billion before the Court cut off that authority. Trump said bad courts were costing the country hundreds of billions of dollars and shifted toward narrower tools, including Section 122 baseline tariffs and Section 301 investigations.

Court fights over executive power keep stacking up in other lanes as well, including a separate track where the Supreme Court cleared the way for expanded voter citizenship checks through the SAVE database.

Birthright order fell on another 6-3 vote

In June, the high court again split 6-3 and ruled against Trump’s birthright citizenship ban, upholding the guarantees in the 14th Amendment. Barrett and Kavanaugh were in the majority against the administration on that case.

Breitbart reported Trump’s sharper line on the citizenship loss: he called the result unfortunate, not for him, but for the country, and faulted the tariffs ruling for lacking a clause he said could have saved $400 billion.

Those back-to-back defeats sit inside a longer run of election-map and emergency-docket fights that keep the Court at the center of national politics, from repeated blocks on a Missouri GOP House map to liberal criticism of the emergency docket itself.

Loyalty talk and a Truth Social blast

Trump drew a hard contrast with Democrats. He said they stick together when they vote and keep loyalty to Barack Hussein Obama and to Biden.

On Biden and the Court, Trump was blunt in the Time interview:

“So they have loyalty to Barack Hussein Obama. They have loyalty to Biden, even though Biden doesn’t even know who the h*** they are. He wouldn’t know. He doesn’t even know what the Supreme Court is. And me, I gave them the chance of a lifetime, and it’s unfortunate what they did,”

Asked what he wants from Supreme Court nominees, he did not hide the standard. RealClearPolitics carried his reply: “I do like loyalty, yeah.”

He still framed the demand as good decisions for the country, not a personal favor bank. That is the tension he keeps naming out loud: lifetime jobs handed out by a president who expected constitutional seriousness on borders, trade and election rules.

Pressure on the Court is coming from the left, too. Justice Jackson has taken aim at the emergency docket and called the current process a threat to public trust, another sign that every major ruling now lands in a political crossfire.

Mail-in voting fight came next

Last month, a Supreme Court majority blocked Trump’s mail-in voting plan. He criticized Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett for joining that majority and followed with a Truth Social post that left little doubt about his view of the three.

“These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves,” he wrote.

The Washington Examiner noted the same open regret: Trump has said he gave them lifetime positions and believes those appointments backfired when the votes went against him.

Legal challenges to Trump administration rules continue on other fronts as well, including a promised lawsuit over a Head Start English rule, the kind of lower-court and local fight that often ends up back at the same nine justices.

Trump’s complaint is consistent across the Time interview, the Truth Social post and the earlier tariffs blow-up. He nominated three justices for life. He expected them to apply the law in ways that protect American industry, citizenship rules and election integrity. On tariffs, birthright citizenship and mail-in voting, enough of them joined majorities that stopped him.

Presidents nominate for a reason. When the Court blocks border, trade and ballot tools the country voted for, the man who made those appointments has every right to say the results failed the moment.