EMERGENCY

President Trump has now signed the spending bill presented to him by Congress, avoiding another partial government shutdown. In doing so, he has agreed to accept several hundred million dollars LESS than was on the table before he was "proud" to send the federal government into the longest shutdown in history.

That's a move that will not go down well with his supporters.

But he has a plan to turn all that around: declaring a national emergency.

Trump has repeatedly warned everybody that he has an "absolute right" to declare an emergency to bypass Congress for funds to build his big, beautiful wall.

(He's back to calling it a "wall" again, chastising folks for politicizing this vital structure by calling it anything else. Though he was the only one doing that.)

Now he's declared his emergency.

Why didn't he do it earlier? One reason was because he knew there was the risk of getting sued over his spurious declaration. And he will undoubtedly BE sued.

The other, nastier reason is this: He thought he could bully Nancy Pelosi into giving in to him. Thus proving he has the upper hand, like a strong president should have.

Like a strong MAN should have.

Instead, he proved he's merely devious. Not that we didn't already know this.

And here's the problem he's ignoring: Every twist and turn of this funding process only serves to remind folks that this country was NOT the one that was supposed to be paying for the wall.

At every campaign rally where he blasted out his key promise for a humongous border wall, the biggest response was always the second part, when he stated that MEXICO was going to be paying for the damned thing. Those guys were the problem, after all, sending their rapists and so forth into America, so it made sense they would be the ones responsible for ponying up the mazuma.

Trump will no doubt repeat his bizarre notion that because of his greatly superior new trade agreement, Mexico IS paying for the wall.

It's a position that makes about as much sense as his claim he meant to say "wouldn't" instead of "would" at the press conference in Helsinki, putting Putin ON the hook instead of taking him OFF the hook for meddling in our 2016 election.

Trump's biggest delusion is that he's so beloved by the people of America we all rush to buy whatever nonsense he deigns to let drop from his petulant lips.

He is, after all, a political Einstein. Who among us "wouldn't" listen to him?