Trump follows up 'emergency' declaration with 3-day luxury getaway

[EricMaundry]

Given that Trump says there’s a “national emergency” taking place on our southern border, you’d think he would spend the weekend at the White House monitoring the situation to ensure Americans’ safety.

You’d think that, but you’d be wrong.

Trump is instead following up his national emergency declaration — which he hopes will allow him to raid funds Congress appropriated elsewhere to pay for his vanity border wall that nobody wants — by flying down to Florida on the taxpayer dime for a weekend at his ostentatious Mar-a-Lago resort.

One single trip to Mar-a-Lago, located on the ritzy island of Palm Beach off the east coast of the Sunshine State, costs taxpayers roughly $3.4 million, according to a Government Accountability Office report from early February.

https://shareblue.com/trump-emergency-declaration-3-day-luxury-florida-getaway/

[riversedge]

1. Some sinkholes on his gulfing land are in order!!

[Maxheader]

2. Would you like to know where this all started?

President Donald Trump’s obsession with a border wall with Mexico has now kept the government partially shut for three weeks. But the commander in chief didn’t always think it was such an essential idea. In fact, it started out as a gimmick, or, as the New York Times calls it, “a mnemonic device of sorts.” During the time when Trump was weighing his presidential candidacy, aides wanted to come up with a way to help him remember to talk about getting tough on immigration, which was always seen as a key issue in his campaign.

Political advisers Sam Nunberg and Roger Stone apparently came up with the idea. “How do we get him to continue to talk about immigration?” Nunberg claims he told Stone. “We’re going to get him to talk about he’s going to build a wall.” The plan worked like a charm. Trump talked about immigration in his speeches, and the wall narrative got huge reactions from the crowd, which obviously thrilled Trump. So he kept pushing the idea harder and harder.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/trumps-wall-reportedly-a-gimmick-campaign-aides-came-up-with-so-hed-remember-to-talk-immigration.html

[pangaia]

16. oh god. MAKE THIS an OP puleease.....

[ginnyinWI]

3. Also, where are the plans?

Where are the detailed plans for this project? Cost estimates, budgets, everything? How serious can he be about getting an actual wall if they haven't even started this? It will probably take most of the money he can scrape together to even begin the planning stage. Ground breaking is at least two years away and probably more!

[KatyaR]

4. TalenGor posted this earlier in the week.

It was an engineer's opinion on building the wall.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100211820447

[ginnyinWI]

5. thankyou. illustrates my point perfectly. n/t

[Mme. Defarge]

6. We rest our case.

[AllaN01Bear]

7. budget stalemate . gvt shutdown."national emergency" he goes golfing.

golfing the most useless "sport" i know of . le sigh.

[Gothmog]

8. Trump has arrived at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, FL.

Link to tweet

[SylviaD]

21. FUCK HIM nt

[keithbvadu2]

9. Even Dubya did more than Trump

Trump's followup:::
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211825590

Bush Declared a National Emergency in 2001 and then flew to Manhattan to stand before in the rubble of the WTC

Bush Declared a National Emergency in 2005 before flying to New Orleans to tour the Rubble of Katrina

Trump Declared a National Emergency and then flew to Mar-a-Lago

[SylviaD]

15. Please do not use Bush as a positive example of...anything. Thank you. nt

[keithbvadu2]

19. Think: 'less negative'.

Think: 'less negative'.

Dubya praises God every day that he is not the worst President anymore.

[trusty elf]

10. Golf? No, sir, prefer prison flog!

Palindrome, Palindrome, where do you roam?

[IronLionZion]

11. Dude should take a longer, much more permanent vacation

to club fed

[zentrum]

12. The purpose....

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....is simply to appear to be fighting like hell in the eyes of his base, President Hannity and First Lady Coulter.

He'd prefer that the Wall actually be built because it would give him some racist glee, but basically he doesn't care how long it drags on, or even what the outcome is.

His one goal is to appear to be a martyr for the Wall in the eyes of MAGA's.

It's all layers of Kabuki. When you're the head of a cult, all that matters is that you manipulate the delusions of your followers so that you come off as their persecuted Messiah.

[ffr]

13. When his ticker stops for good, the world will be a better place. What a piece of sh*t!

[treestar]

14. HE knows it is not really an emergency

He is just using the emergency power to get his way.

[spanone]

17. i'm sure trump is down on the southern border (of florida) facing a horrific putt

and has a caravan of secret service security

[Gothmog]

18. Trump is busy playing golf

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Link to tweet

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[Fritz Walter]

23. Jeepers!

He’s getting a big as Mr. Creosote.
(See below)

[Blue Owl]

20. Tone-deaf asshole

Fuck him.

[Fritz Walter]

22. Have another omelet, little donnie two-scoops!

In fact, make it a double cheese, double ham omelet, with an extra serving of bacon on the side.
For that matter, your lunch menu should include two Big Macs and an extra-large serving of greasy fries (accompanied by a pint of ketchup). And for dinner, a full bucket of KFC (extra crispy/greasy and salty). Just leave room for the two scoops of ice cream. What the hell? It’s Presidents’ Day. Have three: chocolate, vanilla and strawberry! Followed by a “wafer-thin mint”

With the massive doses of Crestor at your age, the sooner your massive stroke occurs, the better! At that point, Amendment 25 will automatically be invoked. I just hope your incapacity doesn’t keep you from being aware of the irony of your most recent tweets.

Karma, do your thing! Please!

[Gothmog]

24. That was a great movie