Donald Trump just announced a national emergency for his manufactured “border crisis” in an effort to circumvent Congress and secure funding for his long-promised border wall.
After the announcement, he’s planning to head to his Florida compound Mar-a-Lago.
Because when your country is in the midst of a “national emergency” the president goes…golfing?
On Friday morning, the hashtag #FakeTrumpEmergency was trending across the U.S. on Twitter. People pointed out that the president—a longtime golf enthusiast that reportedly had a $50,000 simulator installed at the White House—was headed to one of his favorite places to play golf right after the important declaration.
Trump’s immediate response to declaring a national “emergency” is to jet to Florida for a weekend of golf at his private resort. https://t.co/YhjWw5z9ga [1]
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) February 15, 2019 [2]
10 AM: Trump will declare a national emergency.
4:00 PM: Trump will fly to Mar-a-Lago to play golf for the weekend.#TrumpFakeEmergency [3] #fridayfeeling [4] #FridayMotivation [5] #fridaythoughts [6] pic.twitter.com/EcJn8zZJXK [7]
— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) February 15, 2019 [8]
While the White House often works to conceal whether Trump is golfing—he was a longtime critic of President Barack Obama enjoying the game and claimed he wouldn’t play at all as president—but he visited a golf course more than 154 times in his first two years in office and was documented playing at least 70 times.
He had to halt his golf outings amid the government shutdown, seemingly since it would be a bad visual to hit the links while hundreds of thousands of government workers went unpaid. He did, however, get in a recent round with Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods.
Twitter had some thoughts:
Guys, the situation with the border wall is such an emergency that Donald Trump is signing the emergency declaration and then flying down to assess it and canceling his golf trip.
KIDDING.
He's going to mar-a-lago this afternoon. There is no emergency.#FakeTrumpEmergency [9]
— Red™️ (@Redpainter1) February 15, 2019 [10]
Reminder: After declaring a #NationalEmergency [11] today, President Trump will depart for Mar-A-Lago to play golf over the President’s Day holiday weekend. https://t.co/unSydBp0QY [12]
— TᖇAViS AKEᖇS (@travisakers) February 15, 2019 [13]
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He goes to Mar-A-Lago to play golf.Trump just admitted that the #BorderWall [14] = #FakeNationalEmergency [15]
What a wanker!#FakeEmergency [16] #FakeTrumpEmergency [9] pic.twitter.com/hch1H0qU1F [17]— I♥NYC (@ClearlyNYC) February 15, 2019 [18]
– Immigration down
– Border counties safer
– Constitution under attack
– Trump spending the weekend at Mar-a-LagoThere is no crisis at the border, just a #FakeTrumpEmergency [9]
— Swing Left (@swingleft) February 15, 2019 [19]
I’m just saying, this fool just called a national emergency for something he just admitted he didn’t need to do. As if to further prove his point, he’s now going to Mar-a-Lago to play golf.#nationalemergency [20] #trump [21] @realdonaldtrump [22] pic.twitter.com/kBPzcNVllo [23]
— David Phillips (@BrotherJulius83) February 15, 2019 [24]
Why would Donald Trump declare a fake national emergency and then run off to Mar-A-Lago? Because he's a scared little coward who can't face the repercussions of his own actions.
This should be the nail in Trump's political coffin but the @GOP [25] is also full of complicit cowards.
— James Kosur (@JamesKosur) February 15, 2019 [26]