Gaetz: Next Dem Prez Will Use National Emergency To Build Trans Bathrooms

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) speaks during a press conference on medical cannabis research reform on April 26, 2018. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images)
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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said that he doesn’t want President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency to fund the wall because of the precedent it would set for the next Democratic President, according to a Thursday Wall Street Journal report.

“I don’t want the next national emergency to be that some Democrat President says we have to build transgender bathrooms in every elementary school in America,” Gaetz said.

Trump has been teasing the decision for days, saying Thursday that he “can’t imagine any reason” not to declare a national emergency.

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  1. Oh, He get’s it !

  2. Only in this clown’s fever dreams…

  3. Oh come on, if you want to scare crazy people just say that the next prez will take away all the guns.

  4. Mein Gott! He’s uncovered the plot! Burn the code books and abandon ship in a non-gender-specific order!

  5. “I don’t want the next national emergency to be that some Democrat President says we have to build transgender bathrooms in every elementary school in America,” Gaetz said.

    Yet another shit stain on the body politic.

    Do these assholes get elected by assholes? Or are voters insulated and ignorant of what these jackasses say?

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