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How Trump’s Make-believe Border Crisis is Definitely a National Emergency

Ezinne Ukoha
5 min readFeb 16, 2019

For once, there’s something the Liar-in-Chief and I can agree on. There most certainly is a national emergency that needs to be tackled, but where we disagree is the absolute reason why and how this urgent matter became a crisis of our lives.

These days, it’s quite challenging to find a headline that efficiently gathers all my thoughts in a row — but I managed to stumble upon the Chicago Tribune, the very day President Trump made his epic announcement, and this caught my attention:

And then House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi dropped this gem not long after the Idiot-in-Chief flawlessly outed himself with the unawareness that buffoons are usually armed with when they fail to make their case for something that is fraudulent by nature:

The emergency that America is saddled with has zero to do with the brutish Brown migrants, who are gnawing their way through makeshift barriers, in an effort to descend on the sovereignty of a nation, that deserves to be protected by a “big, beautiful wall” that will once and for all…

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