On Friday morning in the Rose Garden at The White House, President Donald J. Trump declared a national emergency at the United States southern border to build his monument to racism at the US/Mexico border; making the taxpayers, US taxpayers that is, not Mexican taxpayers, pay for it.
But of course, Trump is an idiot, kept talking, giving lawyers all the legal ammunition they need to
How anyone, after the above statements, could say that this is not an abuse of power is beyond me. There is much national crisis’ in the United States that could be described as a national emergency, the southern border is not one of them, which Trump admitted with his “I didn’t need to do this” statement.
Trump even recognized that he will be sued because of this emergency declaration, saying “We will have a national emergency, and then we will be sued, and then they will sue us in the ninth circuit, even though it shouldn’t be there, and we will possibly get a bad ruling, and then we’ll get another bad ruling, and then we’ll end up in the supreme court…” And it goes on and on, the Cheeto N’ Chief literally does not know when to STFU! Trump’s lawyers must be furiously facepalming throughout this speech, while the ACLU lawyers are putting their feet up while trump hands them all the evidence they need to sue.
Trump uses “alternative facts” to further his fear narrative to justify his costly and ineffective wall when the reality is that immigrant apprehensions at the border are down to a near 20 year low, the majority of those immigrants are families, women, and children from Central American countries like Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala seeking asylum, trying to escape gangs, violence and abject poverty, not terrorists, not MS-13 and gang members. While the vast majority of illegal drugs come through legal entry points in private vehicles, this is according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.
Of course, this fake national emergency came about because Trump could not get Congress to give him the almost 6 billion dollars he wanted to build his signature wall, screwing over 800,00 federal workers in the process. which is extremely ironic, given his tweet criticizing Barack Obama; on Nov 20, 2014
Trump’s tweet reads, in case it gets removed, “Repubs must not allow Pres Obama to subvert the Constitution of the US for his own benefit & because he is unable to negotiate w/ Congress”. There is literally a tweet in the past from the president, for every occasion to prove Trump’s hypocrisy.
Finally, what president decides to immediately jet off to play golf at the time of national emergency?
‘Cheeto N’ Chief’, Is that like ‘Wotsit N’ Chief’? I love it…