--- title: Neil Gorsuch 'Disheartened' By Donald Trump Tweet on Judge description: Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch said President Donald Trump's tweets about the judiciary are "demoralizing" and "disheartening" canonical: https://time.com/4664730/donald-trump-neil-gorsuch-tweet-judge-demoralizing/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-08T23:09:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:13:12.294Z article:section: Politics og:title: Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch Calls President Trump's Tweets on the Judiciary 'Demoralizing' og:description: "He is disheartened by the demoralizing and abhorrent comments" og:url: https://time.com/4664730/donald-trump-neil-gorsuch-tweet-judge-demoralizing/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte2f943b7f9798807/6988b970097b90093a9b8d2c/gorsuch-judge-comment.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch Meets With Senators On Capitol Hill og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch Calls President Trump's Tweets on the Judiciary 'Demoralizing' twitter:description: "He is disheartened by the demoralizing and abhorrent comments" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte2f943b7f9798807/6988b970097b90093a9b8d2c/gorsuch-judge-comment.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch Calls President Trump's Tweets on the Judiciary 'Demoralizing' by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Feb 8, 2017 11:09 PM UTC  U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch arrives for a meeting with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) February 8, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch arrives for a meeting with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) February 8, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.Alex Wong—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Feb 8, 2017 11:09 PM UTC Supreme Court nominee [Neil Gorsuch](http://time.com/4660517/mike-pence-neil-gorsuch-supreme-court/) said President Donald Trump’s [tweets about the judiciary](http://time.com/4660428/donald-trump-federal-judge-blocks-immigration-order/) are “demoralizing” and “disheartening.” Gorsuch’s comments came during a meeting with Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, after Trump [referred](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/827867311054974976) to a federal judge who last week blocked his executive order barring immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries as a “so-called judge.” > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/827867311054974976) “He certainly expressed to me that he is disheartened by the demoralizing and abhorrent comments made by President Trump about the judiciary,” [Blumenthal told reporters](https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/829453667497558016/video/1) after the meeting on Wednesday. “I believe he has an obligation to make his views known more explicit and unequivocally to the American people,” Blumenthal said of Gorsuch. Ron Bonjean, a spokesman for Gorsuch during the Supreme Court confirmation process, [confirmed to CNN](http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/politics/gorsuch-trump-tweets/) that Gorsuch used the words “disheartening” and “demoralizing” to describe Trump’s tweet. Until Wednesday’s comments, Gorsuch has remained fairly quiet since Trump nominated him to the Supreme Court. Trump ramped up attacks against the judiciary after the travel ban was put on hold, tweeting that judges should be blamed in the event of a terror attack by an immigrant. The executive order is currently [under consideration by an appeals court](http://time.com/4663564/trump-travel-ban-federal-appeals-court/) after the Trump administration filed an appeal. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4664730/donald-trump-neil-gorsuch-tweet-judge-demoralizing/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4664730/donald-trump-neil-gorsuch-tweet-judge-demoralizing/"},"headline":"Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch Calls President Trump's Tweets on the Judiciary 'Demoralizing'","datePublished":"2017-02-08T23:09:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:13:12.294Z","description":"\"He is disheartened by the demoralizing and abhorrent comments made by President Trump\"","url":"https://time.com/4664730/donald-trump-neil-gorsuch-tweet-judge-demoralizing/","keywords":["Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte2f943b7f9798807/6988b970097b90093a9b8d2c/gorsuch-judge-comment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte2f943b7f9798807/6988b970097b90093a9b8d2c/gorsuch-judge-comment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch Meets With Senators On Capitol Hill","caption":"Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch Meets With Senators On Capitol Hill","creditText":"Alex Wong—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4664730/donald-trump-neil-gorsuch-tweet-judge-demoralizing/","name":"Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch Calls President Trump's Tweets on the Judiciary 'Demoralizing'"}}]}] ```