National Emergency?

I am not asking whether the declaration of a National Emergency by President Trump is legally or constitutionally justified; the courts - particularly the Supreme Court - will answer those questions.

I am, however, asking these questions: 1) since President Trump stayed in his declaration that "I did not need to do this" - the "this" being the act of declaring a National Emergency - how can he claim it is an emergency if, in his own words, he did not need to do it, and 2) how can he consider it an emergency when he - immediately after making the declaration - jetted off for a few days of relaxing golf at Mar-a-lago?

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HerKing · 61-69, M

1) He can claim it, but it doesn't make it true. 2) Because golf is far more important than an emergency that isn't.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@HerKing It IS actually a National Emergency. Its just that the Emergency is Trumps media cronies are getting restive and starting to turn on him over his backing away from the wall. In danger of having some of his toothless knuckle draggers lured away from him at the next election he would be at risk of being moved on by the Party and being exposed to prosecution. Now THATS an Emergency.

HerKing · 61-69, M

@whowasthatmaskedman Indeed so. It says something when McConnell who has said privately that Trump wasted the opportunity before the last shut down and has got less now, stands dutifully behind him in the Rose garden as Trump rambles on and on and on and on in an incoherent nonsensical clusterfuck and doesn't break his smirk. As for Pence? He needs a good slap, sick of seeing that hypocritical sycophant with his puppy dog eyes gazing adoringly.