(CNN) — President Donald Trump is using his love of tariffs to threaten high-profile American companies.

Over the past month, Trump has said he’d like to target two specific and very different companies – Apple and Mattel – with tariffs aimed at their key products over comments by their CEOs.

Company-specific tariff threats will likely face legal problems, especially after a decision late Wednesday by the questioned the president’s authority to unilaterally impose tariffs without action by Congress – a decision that was put on hold by a on Thursday.

But Trump does have levers to pull, and it’s clear he sees the threat of tariffs as a way to get companies to comply with his demands.

Even without this week’s court decision, Trump would have had problems putting in place tariffs that tar

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