Well, howdy there, internet people, it's bell again. So today, we're going to talk about

Trump declaring an emergency, a month late. It's been a week of Trump attempting to politically

grandstand on social media and play the blame game over a spill in the Potomac.

And a week after saying, FEMA would play a key role in managing what he called a, quote,

massive ecological disaster. It's been more than a month since the spill started. It's been a

month since the bypass was installed to stop the spill. Well, it's been a month since the spill started. It's been a month since the bypass was installed to stop

the spill. Well, Trump finally took the very first step this weekend to actually initiate federal

involvement. The FEMA release says, quote, the president's action authorizes FEMA to coordinate all disaster relief efforts,

to alleviate the hardships and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population,

and to provide appropriate assistance to save lives,

to protect property, public health and safety,

and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe.

Caused by the emergency. A month late. Emergency. They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.

It's worth remembering that Mayor Bowser of D.C. formally declared a major disaster in the district on February 18th,

and directly asked Trump to mobilize FEMA.

It had already been days since Trump was known to be personally aware of the issue and was posting

on social media about it.

That's giving him the benefit of the doubt and assuming that somehow he wasn't informed of the

spill before then.

That in and of itself would be a problem because it would mean that if you watch the roads not taken on

the other channel, you were made aware of a, quote, massive ecological disaster before the

president of the United States during a weekly roundup. Not to downplay our own stuff, but I don't feel like our weekly roundup should ever be

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