Following national emergency announcement, Trump goes golfing

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Source: Think Progress

The president's public schedule contradicts his rhetoric about a crisis at the southern border.
ADDY BAIRD
FEB 15, 2019, 10:52 AM

President Donald Trump will head to his Mar-a-Lago resort and golf club Friday afternoon, hours after declaring a national emergency in order to build a wall on the southern border, according to his public schedule.

The move is not entirely surprising, given Trump’s past behavior in regards to the manufactured crisis.

Last year, the president sent troops to the border, in response to what he said was a worsening humanitarian and national security situation, only to pull them back a short while later, and then, without reason, send troops back again earlier this month. In January, Trump also delivered a televised address to the nation, laying out the supposed “crisis,” but did not declare a state of emergency, instead allowing the partial government shutdown — which began after Trump rejected a bill to fund his border wall because it did not include enough money — to drag on for more than a month.

Trump’s trip to Mar-a-Lago comes one day after lawmakers passed a funding bill to avert another partial government shutdown following the record-breaking 35-day shutdown that began last December and continued through late January. The deal includes $1.375 billion for new fencing on the border, about a quarter of the $5.7 billion Trump has repeatedly demanded for a wall. It also increases the Department of Homeland Security budget to $49.4 billion, $1.7 billion more than last year.



Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/trump-state-of-emergency-golf-trip-d56eba94b169/

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November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.....................

[The Truth Is Here]

1. I want him dead in the middle of the golf course

and not located for at least six months.

[Dave Starsky]

3. I'm sure he hits every drive into the trees.

So maybe they'll find his remains under an elm in five years. We can only hope.

[jmowreader]

8. I'd prefer he be located after 30 minutes

Long enough to not be resuscitated, not long enough for his rotting carcass to contaminate the water table.

[DownriverDem]

2. We must have a Dem candidate

that appeals to the majority of the country. Far left won't do it. It's not who I like, but rather who can beat trump.

[lagomorph777]

9. I don't buy into the centrist-is-more-appealing myth.

That's what sank Hillary.

Lefty is sexy now.

[KayF]

4. now watch this drive

[LiberalLovinLug]

5. Just like FDR went golfing right after the Pearl Harbor attack national emergency

not

[Canoe52]

6. Of course he did, the little orange shit.

[Initech]

7. Crisis? What crisis?

[tclambert]

10. To Trump, a real crisis is when he hits his ball into a sand trap.

"I, Donald Trump, hereby issue an executive order . . . banning all sand traps . . . and water hazards. And any of my putts within six feet is a gimme."