Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has not made many public direct comments about President Donald Trump himself, but his former law clerks and legal scholars who worked with him have expressed concern over the Supreme Court's recent decisions that have tended to expand Trump's presidential powers, particularly related to executive authority. A former clerk, Caleb Nelson, has warned that the Court's trend toward a "pro-president" position—seen in rulings allowing Trump sweeping authority to remove independent agency heads—could cause lasting damage to constitutional norms and institutions. Nelson critiques the Court, associated closely with Thomas, for interpreting the Constitution in a way that gives the president more power than originally intended by the framers, which benefits Trump’s agenda. Also, during Trump's earlier presidency, there were tensions when Trump publicly criticized the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group closely linked to Thomas, amid his dissatisfaction with some judicial decisions. Thomas himself has been vocal about rejecting the strict adherence to judicial precedent (stare decisis), a stance that indirectly supports Trump’s broader conservative judicial objectives. However, there is no prominent record of Thomas personally commenting explicitly on Trump in detail outside these legal contexts and the implications of the Court's rulings related to presidential powers and conservative judicial philosophy.