President Donald Trump said the Senate's move to deploy the 'nuclear option' on Supreme Court filibusters won't affect his future court picks – which he suggested may be coming in bulk.

'No, it won't at all,' Trump said, asked by reporters aboard Air Force One about the change in how the Senate operates just hours after Senate Majority Mitch McConnell deployed it.

'We have a great person right now in Judge Gorsuch,' Trump said, praising his high court nominee who is now sailing to confirmation thanks to a move that ripped away the Democrats' ability to filibuster.

'Hopefully if there is a second one in my administration,' Trump continued. 'There could be as many as four ... I don't think the nuclear option has anything to do with [it] at all,' he said.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One the Senate's 'nuclear' option won't impact his future court nominations 'at all'

Now that the Senate has taken the action to throw out the Supreme Court filibuster on a party-line majority vote, Trump has the ability to get through nominees without Democratic buy-in.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 83, Justice Stephen Breyer is 78, and Justice Anthony Kennedy is 80.

Democratic senators trying to stave off the change even while filibustering Judge Neil Gorsuch argued that without the filibuster, Trump's or any president's nominees might become more ideological.

The Senate voted to jam through a procedural change that ends filibusters of Supreme Court nominees – insuring that judge Neil Gorsuch will get on the Supreme Court, but throwing the Senate into unknown partisan conflict in the future.

STAY TUNED: Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer was tight-lipped about the GOP's plan to use a parliamentary tactic to end the filibuster of Supreme Court nominees

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell finally pulled the trigger on the 'nuclear option' as he deployed a brash and risky parliamentary move to break a Democratic filibuster and install Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court.

McConnell made the move Thursday morning by raising a procedural point of order about the rules of Senate, after the Senate failed on a 55-45 vote to cut off debate on the nomination of Gorsuch, President Trump's nominee to serve on the Supreme Court.

The chair ruled against him, since under current rules, the majority can overcome a filibuster only with 60 votes.

Not any more. After a vote on whether to sustain a ruling by the chair, a 52-vote Republican majority voted to overrule the chair.

'The decision of the chair does not stand, is the judgement of the Senate,' said Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah.

'Our Democratic colleagues have done something today that is unprecedented in the history of the Senate. Unfortunately it has brought us to this point,' McConnell said, as he undertook the move.

'We need to restore the norms and traditions of the Senate,' he said.

Then he raised a point of order that a simple majority 'is a majority vote on all nominations.'

Sen. Deb Fischer of North Carolina, who was seated in the chair, had in front of her a large-type printed paper showing how the Senate parliamentarian would rule once McConnell raised his point of order.

'The precedent of Nov. 21, 2013 did not apply to the Supreme Court, these nominations are considered under the plain language Rule XXII. The point of order is not sustained,' she said.

She ruled against McConnell because those were the rules in place as of about noon on Thursday.

McConnell then appealed the ruling of the chair – essentially undertaking the so-called 'nuclear option.' Within half an hour, the rules had changed, and the high court filibuster was effectively over.

By voting to overrule the chair, GOP senators were able to change how the Senate operates going forward – giving McConnell the ability to put Gorsuch on the court.

READY FOR BATTLE: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said if Democrats filibuster Neil Gorsuch, the GOP would invoke the 'nuclear option' on Supreme Court nominations

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer tried to forestall the inevitable by moving to adjourn, forcing another vote before McConnell could jam through a change in how the Senate works

Democrats voted to continue debate on the Gorsuch nomination Thursday, essentially continuing a filibuster

Before that could happen, his counterpart and rival in countless judicial standoffs, Minority Leader Charles Schumer, made a series of parliamentary inquiries intended to demonstrate that what McConnell was doing was unprecedented.

Then he moved for a delay for negotiations. Then he moved to adjourn until 5 pm Thursday. Each move prompted another vote and slight delay, although Republicans have already said they have the vote to push through the change.

Throughout the drama, there were no signs of senator-to-senator conversations to try to avoid the standoff.

Senators remained in their chairs. Some monitored cell phones or read through papers. Schumer sat glumly in his chair, his hands in his lap. McConnell sat with his hands interlocked, remaining in his chair except when making parliamentary statements.

NO VACANCY: President Trump said he might be able to name as many as four justices during this tenure

Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 83, and Stephen Breyer, 78, arrive on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2017 in Washington. Justice Anthony Kennedy is 80

Even over the weekend, a group that met to try to resolve it didn't gain much ground.

Senate Republicans prepared to upend years of tradition and potentially throw the chamber into even more partisan acrimony by invoking the 'nuclear option' after Democats filibustered the nomination of judge Neil Gorsuch on Thursday.

Following angry back-and-forth speeches about 'vicious' treatment of past court nominees, the Senate failed on a 55-45 vote to cut off debate on the nomination of judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's nominee to serve on the Supreme Court.

The GOP's audacious plan is to vote to overturn the ruling of a chair when the Senate's normal rules are enforced, thereby setting in place a new precedent – and allowing Gorsuch to get confirmed by a simple majority.

The Democrats used a similar tactic in 2013 to end the filibuster for lower court nominations – something McConnell now wants to extend to the Supreme Court.

Senate Republicans and Democrats revisited their long history of acrimonious fights over judicial nominations in a final round of venting before McConnell prepared to deploy the 'nuclear option' to end filibusters of Supreme Court nominees.

After Republicans failed to secure the vote to move the Gorsuch nomination forward, but McConnell took the first step of jamming through a parliamentary move that would allow Gorsuch and other Supreme Court nominees clear the chamber on a simple majority.

Democratic senators Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and Heidi Keitkamp of North Dakota joined Republicans on the procedural motion, which needed 60 votes to prevail.

Senators remained in their seats Thursday morning to watch the parliamentary fireworks inside a chamber that is frequently nearly empty.

McConnell took to the floor of the Senate Thursday morning, running through some of the long history of partisan fights over the judiciary.

He brought up the 'vicious' attacks on Ronald Reagan's nominee, Robert Bork, and the 'brass knuckles' hits on Clarence Thomas, as well as Democratic efforts to stall President Bush's judicial nominations.

'Wounds were fresh and deep' when President Obama took office,' McConnell said.

'This will be the first and last partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee,' said McConnell.

'Now all this history matters,' he said.

Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin of Illinois countered: 'There must have been a hacking into his computer because he can't print the name Merrick Garland to include in the speech.'

He was referencing President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, who never got a hearing over the final seven months of Obama's second term.

With Garland's nomination bottled up, President Donald Trump got the chance to appoint Judge Neil Gorsuch to the same seat vacated by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

'Now how did we get here? The truth is over the long history of partisan combat over judicial nominees, there's blame on both sides,' said Minority Leader Charles Schumer, who McConnell pointed to several times in his remarks Thursday morning for his role in the judicial wars.

'I'm pretty sure we could argue endlessly about where and with whom this all started,' Schumer said.

Once Republicans invoke the nuclear option, effectively instituting a majority threshold for Supreme Court nominations, there will be little incentive for the White House to consult with the minority when the same party controls both branches.

'That's a recipe for more conflict and bad blood between the parties, not less,' said Schumer.

Schumer met with McConnell Wednesday night just hours before the GOP is set to invoke the 'nuclear' option on Supreme Court filibusters, with no sign of heading off the move.

'Stay tuned,' Schumer told DailyMail.com, when asked if there was any hope of averting the brash parliamentary tactic. 'Come and see,' he urged reporters.

A Senate Democratic leadership aide said there were some low-intensity talks for trying to avert the standoff, but didn't hold out much hope for a resolution.

McConnell has been clear that the GOP would get Gorsuch's nomination through the Senate this week one way or the other, and Democrats have dug in on their filibuster of President Trump's nominee.

A group of senators talked through the weekend over a possible deal, but didn't come to one.

Asked if he saw any reason beyond a rules change that would resolve the situation, Schumer was silent, telling a group of reporters, 'Bye everybody.'

'I think there's a deep concern about the future of the Senate. It's the subject of lots of conversations,' Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen told DailyMail.com.

'If they really pull the trigger and blow up the rule, then everyone ought to look at what the consequences are in the short term, and then longer term issues for the institution,' he said.

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. speaks to reporters just outside the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 5, 2017, after he ended a 15 hour all-night talk-a-thon as the Senate heads toward a showdown over the confirmation vote for Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

In this frame grab from video provided by Senate Television, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. speaks on the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Merkley held the Senate floor through the night and was still going in an attention-grabbing talk-a-thon highlighting his party's opposition to President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch. (Senate Television via AP)

'For the first time in history, we are considering a nominee for a stolen Supreme Court seat, and that alone should be reason for everyone who cares about this institution to turn down this nominee,' Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., during a 15-and-a-half-hour overnight talk-a-thon.

'This is an extreme nominee from the far right who doesn't believe in the fundamental vision of 'We the People.''

Merkley, one of the first opponents of President Donald Trump's nominee, wrote on Twitter, 'This is a stolen seat that demands as robust a resistance as we can possibly mount.'

In this photo taken on, Tuesday, April 4, 2017, the Capitol in seen from the Supreme Court Building in Washington. A Democratic senator held the Senate floor through the night and was still going Wednesday in an attention-grabbing talk-a-thon highlighting his party's opposition to President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

FILE - In this March 21, 2017 file photo, Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. A divided Senate Judiciary Committee backed Gorsuch, Monday, April 3, 2017. GOP likely to change Senate rules to confirm him. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)