Trump basks in triumph as supreme court kicks away another guardrail

The decision to limit judicial power to curb the president caps a week of - in Trump's telling - endless winning, from the Middle East to Nato to Africa

He strode into the White House briefing room feeling invincible. In his own telling, he had fixed the Middle East. He had made Nato pay up. He had pacified the heart of Africa. And now Napoleon Trump had once again just been crowned emperor by the US supreme court.

We've had a big week," Donald Trump, orange hair shimmering, blue tie drooping below the waist, mused from a lectern anointed with the presidential seal. We've had a lot of victories this week."