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Trevor Noah on Trump's weird, waffling national border emergency


Isn't an emergency something that's usually called quickly? The comics discuss this odd declaration in Best of Late Night.

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President Donald Trump finally did what he's been warning the nation he might. This morning he declared a national emergency at the U.S. border with Mexico. Since Congress isn't giving Trump the money he wants to build a border wall, his plan is to use the declaration to take money from some other pot. 

That plan might work, but the logic isn't sound, says late-night comic Trevor Noah. Why? Aren't emergencies generally more pressing than Trump's ongoing case for a border wall? Take a look at today's Best of Late Night, above, to hear Noah's argument that this is all a bit too weird. 

And Seth Meyers compares Trump to an odd McDonald's complainer. 

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