Being "shaken" by the fact that the public hates your most famous pro-Trump decision is not being "confounded" by Trump (or the "realities" of Trump). It actually seems like Roberts understands Trump pretty well! It's everyone else that he doesn't really get.

Oh, the poor baby! He's so freaking weary. Well Boo fucking Hoo.

He can choose to fuck off and get that massive weight off his shoulders. It’s an option he has

Roberts can put a sock in it. He knows what he's doing, and he knows he's despised by a significant chunk of the legal population for being Trump's stooge. Really, the only thing left to decide is whether Roberts is worse than Taney ("Dred Scott").

If he's genuinely confounded by Trump he's watching an entirely different ballgame than everyone, friend or foe. So it's a weird concession for his surrogates to put out there.

honestly mindblowing to me that he expected that ruling to go over well like he seems genuinely baffled that it didn’t and come ON, man