President Trump Delivers Remarks, Feb. 20, 2026

Justices Gorsuch and and Barrett. Are you surprised in particular by their decision today and do you regret nominating them?

I don't want to say whether or not I regret. I think their decision was terrible. I think it's an embarrassment to their families, you want to know the truth, the two of them. Yeah.

Specifically on that $2,000 tariff check... specifically... Mr. President to be clear do you believe at the end of implementing these new tariff tools the tariff rate and tariffs will ultimately be higher than they currently are?

Potentially higher. Uh, it depends whatever we want them to be. But we want them to be fair for other countries and you know we have some countries that have treated us really badly for years and it's going to be high for them and we have other countries that have been very good and it's going to be very reasonable for them.

Thank you Mr. President. Do you have any plans to travel to India for the Quad Summit and how do you think your relationship with India is right now?

I think my relationship with India is fantastic and we're doing trade with India. India pulled out of Russia. You know India was getting its oil from Russia right? And they pulled way back at my request because we want to settle that horrible war where 25,000 people are dying every month. And my relationship with Prime Minister Modi is I would say great. I also stopped a war between India and Pakistan as you know. There were ten planes shot down that war was going and probably going nuclear and just yesterday the Prime Minister of Pakistan said President Trump saved 35 million lives by getting them to stop. That's and I did it largely with tariffs. I said look you're going to fight that's fine but you're not going to do business with the United States and you're going to pay a 200% tariff each country. And they called up and they said we have made peace. Okay? I just want to thank you all look great certainty has been brought back to the economy of the United States and actually the economy of the world because we generate so much in the world. We're the biggest in the world and we're now the strongest by far. We were a country that was dead one and a half years ago. Now we have the hottest country in the world. We're going to keep it that way. Thank you very much everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Mr. President.