Nobel laureate Paul Krugman said in a Friday post on Substack that President Trump is facing “self-inflicted disaster” amid his global trade war.

“One crucial thing to understand is that Trump is facing a completely self-inflicted disaster here,” Krugman said in the post. “He probably could have gotten Republicans in Congress to vote for insane trade policy. But he was impatient, and wanted to start ruling as a dictator right away.”

On Friday, Trump criticized a federal appeals court decision that went against the administration’s claims that the president’s emergency powers justify his expansive tariff agenda.

The ruling backed up a lower court opinion that the tariffs were not allowed via the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

Trump defended the steep tariffs as nee

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