Donald Trump announced Monday that he is personally un-appointing the Supreme Court justices he appointed, and began walking each of them off the bench and onto a chartered bus bound for their former law offices.
«I picked them, so I can unpick them,» Trump told a crowd of several thousand gathered on the National Mall, where a red carpet had been laid from the Court's steps to a bus idling at Constitution Avenue. «It's like a return policy. Nobody told me they'd rule against me. I would have picked different people.»
The justices were given cardboard boxes and a printed schedule showing their old jobs waiting for them by Friday. Trump personally escorted the first justice down the marble steps, holding the box while the justice removed his robe and folded it into a garment bag provided by the White House.
By Tuesday, the White House had established a Reversal Office with a staff of 340, tasked with locating every judge Trump has ever appointed and arranging similar bus transport. A second bus was dispatched to the Eleventh Circuit. A third is being fitted with reclining seats for the long drive to the Ninth.
«We're going to have the cleanest courts,» Trump said, boarding the first bus briefly to check the air conditioning. «People are saying it's the greatest un-appointment in history. Maybe ever.»