This has gotta be the slowest moving emergency ever.

Here's the best picture of the evolution of the emegency

2015-2016: Trump campaigns on urgent need for wall at the southern border. Trump wins. Republicans control the house and senate

^{January 2017: Wall not an emergency}

^{February 2017: Wall not an emergency}

^{March 2017: Wall not an emergency}

^{April 2017: Wall not an emergency}

^{May 2017: Wall not an emergency}

^{June 2017: Wall not an emergency}

^{July 2017: Wall not an emergency}

^{August 2017: Wall not an emergency}

^{September 2017: Wall not an emergency}

^{November 2017: Wall not an emergency}

^{December 2017: Wall not an emergency}

^{January 2017: Wall not an emergency}

^{February 2018: Wall not an emergency. MASSIVE TAX CUTS FOR THE TOP 1% AND CORPORATIONS IS A TOTAL EMERGENCY}

^{March 2018: Wall not an emergency}

^{April 2018: Wall not an emergency}

^{May 2018: Wall not an emergency}

^{June 2018: Wall not an emergency}

^{July 2018: Wall not an emergency}

^{August 2018: Wall not an emergency}

^{September 2018: Wall not an emergency}

^{October 2018: Wall not an emergency}

^{November 2018: Wall not an emergency. DEMOCRATS WIN CONTROL OF THE HOUSE}

^{December 2018: Wall so important, government must be shut down to get it}

^{January 2019: WALL IS A NATIONAL EMERGENCY}

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Either Trump is negligent for ignoring a national emergency when he had the best chance to do something about it or someone gave him the harebrained idea that fighting with democrats over the wall would increase his popularity.