Donald Trump is making a last-ditch effort to salvage his beloved, beleaguered tariff policy, heading to the Supreme Court in hopes that the Republican appointees will come to his rescue.

The desperation is both palpable and warranted given the conspicuous weakness of the administration's legal arguments, as underscored by a series of lower court rulings against him.

That has in turn led the president and his aides to make increasingly histrionic public claims about what will happen if the Supreme Court does not cave and side with Trump.