Border wall national 'emergency,' weekend 1: Trump hits the golf club omelet bar
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Donald Trump spent the weekend letting the nation know just how urgent his national emergency is by … spending his 171st day in office at the golf course, where he hit the omelet bar. Which actually does encapsulate the urgency of the fake national emBorder wall national 'emergency,' weekend 1: Trump hits the golf club omelet bar
Donald Trump spent the weekend letting the nation know just how urgent his national emergency is by … spending his 171st day in office at the golf course, where he hit the omelet bar. Which actually does encapsulate the urgency of the fake national emergency Trump announced Friday, in a rant that was unhinged even by Trump standards. “I didn’t need to do this,” Trump told the nation of the national emergency he was declaring to get his border wall built without congressional approval. This puts Senate Republicans in a tough spot, the poor dears. “He is usurping congressional authority,” Sen. Susan Collins said, beginning her usual act of pretending she’ll take a strong stand. Sen. Lamar Alexander sees problems, too, calling Trump’s action “inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution because, after the American Revolution against a king, our founders chose not to create a chief executive with the power to tax the people and spend their money any way he chooses.” Most Senate Republicans are standing by their man, but if the House forces them to vote on the national emergency, at least a few up for re-election in 2020 will have a tough choice of whether to alienate Trump’s base, aka Republican primary voters, or general election voters. White House white supremacist troll Stephen Miller was out making the case for Trump’s emergency declaration on Fox News on Sunday, insisting it’s totally legal and going to proceed quickly, and that “hundreds of miles, collectively” of wall will be built by September 2020, rather than tied up in legal challenges. For his part, Trump didn’t just eat golf club omelets. He also tweet-ranted against a comedy show, calling for “retribution” for an unflattering Saturday Night Live sketch. Because, again, that’s just how urgent this national emergency is to the guy who declared it. Read more