"Nyah, nyah. I'm gonna build a wall anyway. So there."
Whether America's southern border constitutes a crisis state is just one part of the current political issue swirling through the country.
A bigger, more important question is whether a president can use the power of the Oval Office to declare a national emergency as a way to quell what the president perceives as partisan opposition and a way to milk money from other budgeted programs to pay for his beloved wall.
No sooner did the president finish talking than news media reported the likelihood of court challenges, to be filed by the several states and groups that would lose funding that is being diverted for the wall.
Never mind that numerous federal agencies all agree that the problem of narcotics trucked into America is that they come through standard border crossings, not carried by hand across rural and mountainous areas on private property.
And, of course, building a wall on private property owned by citizens would require using the legal process of eminent domain, depriving land owners of the use of their property.
So taking money previously designated for other purposes will mean that loss will trickle down through all those programs that benefit American citizens just to satisfy the power binge of a president intent on getting his own way in all things regardless of any negative effects on others.
As for the claim of a "national emergency," at no time during his long and rambling speech proclaiming his declaration did he specify just what the alleged "emergency" is.
Other than repeating allegations about a flood of vicious criminals, rapists and other disreputable people "invading" the country, all of which are disproven by data gathered and published by the government's own law enforcement agencies.
Or is the entire dissertation a reflection of one person's racist opinions about America's law-abiding neighbors?
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