Trump Goes Full Conspiracy Theory, Claims US Is Being Invaded

WASHINGTON DC - JANUARY 10: President Donald Trump waves while walking on the South Lawn toward the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. Trump was in Texas t... WASHINGTON DC - JANUARY 10: President Donald Trump waves while walking on the South Lawn toward the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. Trump was in Texas to rally support for building a border wall a day after walking out of talks with congressional leaders on ending a partial government shutdown. (Photo by Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Upon returning back to the White House following a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border — a trip he admitted to reporters was just a photo op — President Trump concluded that the U.S. is being invaded by immigrants.

“I just got back and it is a far worse situation than almost anyone would understand, an invasion!” he said in a Friday morning tweet.

Trump and his team have been bending over backward in recent days to paint the situation at the border as a crisis in order to justify the government shutdown Trump ignited when he refused to sign any funding bill that didn’t include money for his border wall.

Trump told reporters on Thursday that he would declare a national emergency in order to secure funding if Congress can’t compromise. The White House counsel’s office is reportedly guiding Trump aides to keep referring to the border “crisis” in public so they can justify the declaration when it is inevitably challenged in court by Democrats.

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  1. He’s on a roll …

  2. What? Nothing about wheels?

  3. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    Were ALL GONNA DIE!!! I CAN’T STAND IT ANYMORE, I HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE!!!

  4. Avatar for quickq quickq says:

    Is this step three?
    But who gave him the list?

  5. Humanitarian Crisis… that he caused, also not a national security crisis…

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