WASHINGTON — With a few swipes of his Sharpie, Donald Trump assuaged America’s fears of another government shutdown Friday, but not before declaring a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border. Virtually from the outset, the president appeared to be in a defensive posture about the emergency declaration. Trump signed that bill later Friday, although he didn’t breathe a word about it in the Rose Garden. The ACLU also latched on to another peculiarity of Trump’s news conference that was making the rounds of Twitter feeds: that the president undermined his own argument by implying that there’s nothing particularly emergency-like about his national emergency. “We will have a national emergency and we will then be sued,” Trump said in a melodic, sarcastic voice, not quite rolling his eyes.

Source: National Post February 15, 2019 15:54 UTC