The scariest thing I read this weekend was not about gas prices, although $4.29 a gallon for regular was nearly enough to make me do a Tiger Woods and flip my SUV.

(Too soon?)

And, no, the scariest thing I read wasn’t about the “massive” military bunker President Donald Trump was designing under what used to be the White House’s East Wing.

Did anybody really think he was only planning to build a ballroom?

Even with a U.S fighter jet being shot down in Iran, and a 7-month-old baby being shot to death in her stroller in Brooklyn, the scariest thing I read this weekend was that Trump may get to name two more people to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Two more.

According to The New York Times, a liberal advocacy group, Demand Justice, is gearing up for a judicial fight against Trump, who has already shaped the court with three conservative justices he added during his first term in office.

Even though there are no vacancies, and none of the justices have announced any plans to retire, Demand Justice executives said they are convinced that Trump isn’t done molding the court in his image.

“Democrats must treat the prospect of Trump filling more Supreme Court vacancies as the grave threat it is,” Josh Orton, president of Demand Justice, said in a statement.

The preemptive campaign is focusing on Justices Clarence Thomas, 77, and Samuel Alito, 76, who would each turn 80 under the next administration.

“Trump knows that the court is about raw political power — power to protect himself, power to reward his billionaire allies, and power to enable ICE to intimidate and attack American citizens,” Orton said.

“He is not going to leave office with his most loyal justices in their 80s and hope for the best. He’s going to act, and we’ll be ready.”

Loyalty, it turns out, is only a relative concept.

After the Supreme Court voted 6-3 In February to strike down his emergency tariffs on imports, Trump unleashed a social media rant criticizing the court, including two of the justices, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch, who ruled against him.

“The decision that mattered most to me was TARIFFS! The Court knew where I stood, how badly I wanted this Victory for our Country, and instead decided to, potentially, give away Trillions of Dollars to Countries and Companies who have been taking advantage of the United States for decades,” Trump wrote.

This president is never satisfied.

He won a second term, and still maintains that he was cheated out of an election.

He put three people on the Supreme Court, and now he wants to bully them.

Last week, Trump made an unprecedented visit to the Supreme Court to hear in person arguments challenging his proposed restrictions on birthright citizenship.

Though it didn’t work, the visit was seen in many political circles as an intimidation tactic.

The court was not impressed.

Chief Justice John Roberts called the government’s legal reasoning “quirky.”

“It’s a new world,” Roberts conceded. “It’s the same Constitution.”

And it’s the same Donald Trump.

Voters, particularly women, should have learned their lesson when they elected him the first time, paving the way to a Trump-stacked court that overturned the right to an abortion.

This is why elections matter, not just presidential elections, but midterms, too.

There’s nothing to stop Thomas and Alito from stepping down before Trump’s term ends to push the court even further to the right.

But new appointees would require Senate confirmation, and that is where voters come in. That battle starts now — before it’s too late.

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