Damn, Trump Really Loves Softball!

I'm going to get my wall one way or another.

He talked to SEAN HANNITY, SEAN HANNITY!

The imbecile listened to the most annoying conservative agitator in the junk food media.

Today, Donald J. Trump announced he will sign the compromise to keep the government open. However, he will announce he will issue an executive action to fund the border wall.

He will declare a national emergency and he will demand government funding from other organizations.

Trump set a precedent. He just allowed the future leaders elected to the White House to dictate executive orders.

On  Friday declared a national emergency to unlock billions of dollars in federal funds to build a wall on the southern border, bypassing Congress after lawmakers refused to meet his multi-billion dollar request for border wall funds.

For weeks, the President and his top officials had argued that there is a "crisis" on the southern border. Democrats pushed against that argument, saying there's no security crisis but rather a humanitarian one.

According to federal data, Customs and Border Protection apprehended nearly 400,000 people along the Southwest border in fiscal year 2018, an increase from 2017 but a decrease from 2016. Many of those apprehended were claiming asylum.

Trump on Friday reiterated his claims of an "invasion" of drugs and undocumented immigrants at the southern border, but offered little factual or statistical evidence to back up his claim that a national emergency exists.

announced his national emergency declaration during a rambling performance in the Rose Garden where he bragged about the economy, touted progress in his talks with China, vented about media coverage of his presidency and insisted his negotiations with North Korea are bearing fruit.

Sean Hannity tossed the idea.

"It's been signed many times before. It's been signed by other presidents from 1977 or so. It gave the presidents the power," Trump said. "There's rarely been a problem. They sign it, nobody cares. I guess they weren't very exciting."

But at the same time, the President undercut his case about the existence of a national emergency and the urgency of building new barriers on the US-Mexico border.

"I didn't need to do this," Trump said. "But I'd rather do it much faster."

Democrats and activist groups will almost certainly challenge the declaration in court, as critics pre-emptively argued that Trump cannot use the national emergency to free up taxpayer funds and build the border wall he has long promised his political supporters.

Trump declared the national emergency even as he agreed to sign a spending bill from Congress that allocated $1.375 billion for the President to build 55 miles of new fencing. The additional executive actions he is undertaking aim to redirect more than $6 billion in federal funds toward the construction of hundreds more miles of border barriers -- bringing total funding for the wall to nearly $8 billion.

"We don't control our own border," Trump claimed. "We're going to confront the national security crisis on our southern border and we're going to do it -- one way or the other we have to do it."