NASHVILLE – President Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday night at a federal judge in Hawaii, who earlier in the day put the administration’s travel ban on hold.
The Republican president’s charge came a short while after U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Warren in Hawaii temporarily blocked Trump’s second executive order aimed at six primarily Muslim-majority countries that Trump said export terrorists.
Fuming that his own attorneys wanted the second order “watered down” after the first ran into trouble in federal courts over constitutional concerns, Trump said during a rally in Nashville that “this ruling makes us look weak.”
He vowed he would “fight this terrible ruling as far as it needs to go, including all the way up to the Supreme Court.” And, the president predicted, “we’re going to win.”
That drew cheers from audience members, many of whom endured hours-long lines to get into Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium a few blocks from the state Capitol.