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HAMILTON, Canada

US President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to impose steeper tariffs on countries that "play games" after a Supreme Court verdict last week said that by imposing sweeping global levies, his administration had overstepped its authority.

"Any Country that wants to 'play games' with the ridiculous supreme court decision, especially those that have 'Ripped Off' the U.S.A. for years, and even decades, will be met with a much higher Tariff, and worse, than that which they just recently agreed to," he wrote on his social media company Truth Social.

In a separate post, Trump said that Friday’s Supreme Court decision had "accidentally and unwittingly" given him "far more powers and strength" than he previously had, adding that his other tariffs could be used "in a much more powerful and obnoxious way."

"The supreme court (will be using lower case letters for a while based on a complete lack of respect!) of the United States accidentally and unwittingly gave me, as President of the United States, far more powers and strength than I had prior to their ridiculous, dumb, and very internationally divisive ruling," he wrote.

The ruling was 6-3, and the majority included both conservative and liberal justices.

Trump threatened to do "terrible" things to foreign countries, especially those he claimed had been "ripping off" the US for decades, using "licenses," but inexplicably pointed out that he couldn't collect licensing fees from them under the terms of the agreement. "BUT ALL LICENSES CHARGE FEES, why can’t the United States do so?"