Trump regrets his Supreme Court picks. The Constitution doesn’t

Published October 2, 2026 7:00am ET



President Donald Trump says he regrets nominating Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

Asked in a Time interview whether he regretted those choices, Trump answered: “Yeah. Yeah. What can I do? I put them in. They voted against me too often.” He added that he had given them “the position of a lifetime.”

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