Donald Trump has blasted the supreme court’s ruling which blocks his long-sought executive order which curbs mail-in voting. The president called mail-in voting – which he has used on several occasions to cast a ballot – “a laughing stock” across the world. He has routinely claimed, without evidence, that the voting method is prone to fraud.

“The Supreme Court has really let our Country down! Certain Justices are petrified of these crazed and depraved Democrats, and are totally unable to show the courage necessary to save our America,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

A reminder, only two of nine justices – Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito – sided with the administration. Trump called both of the conservative members of the bench “legends” in their dissent.

“This Supreme Court is bullied and cajoled by the Radical Left into making decisions that have set America back at least a hundred years,” the president added, while chiding the court’s decision at the end of its last term which also rejected Trump’s executive order which attempted to limit birthright citizenship and the earlier ruling which found a number of the administration’s tariffs unlawful. The president also accused the justices he nominated for the bench – Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett – not “the people I interviewed to serve” but “merely a shell of their original selves”.

“The damage done to America is incalculable, and they know this, just as everyone else does – It is an irreparable and unrecoverable harm! The Court’s inability and unwillingness to do the right thing for our Country will go down, in a very negative way, in the annals of History,” Trump wrote. “It is not easy for me to write this criticism of the United States Supreme Court – it will likely cost me dearly for years to come – but I feel it my obligation and duty, as President, to do so for the America we love!”