Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

Fair Warning (1981).

It has long been known that President Donald Trump often just makes up what he wants to believe. Such is the case with his self-declared border crisis, where the data on illegal immigration, drug smuggling, terrorists, crime, etc., are the opposite of what the president claims, making a sham of the concept, “national emergency.”

The list of real national emergencies is long: climate change, the rapid decline and extinction of species upon which we depend, achievement gaps in education, lack of policy initiatives to provide real opportunity to minority and rural communities, the opioid epidemic, the security of elections free of foreign meddling, decaying infrastructure, stagnating wages, homelessness, to name a few.

These are real problems in desperate need of much more attention than what the president is wasting his time on at the border. Hopefully, Congress and the courts will see the president’s move for what it is and stop it.

Timothy Walsh, Seattle

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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 16, 2019

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Regarding “Get over it, Democrats” (Letters, Feb. 12): The author complained that he had to put up with former President Barack Obama for eight years, and that now it is the turn of Democrats to put up with President Trump. Say what you will of Obama, he never attacked the free press and never yelled fake news at any news he found not to his liking. Obama also never fell in love with the autocratic ruler of a communist nation, either.

Obama never tinkered with tax laws in order to take from the poor and the middle class to give to the already rich, and Obama never weakened NATO and never caved in to our enemies. Comparing Obama and the person we have in the White House today is like comparing someone with a Ph.D. to someone who failed kindergarten. I would not go there. It is not an argument you can win.

Myo Kyaw Myint, San Jose

“Trying to use the 25th Amendment to try and circumvent the Election is a despicable act of unconstitutional power grabbing…which happens in third world countries. You have to obey the law. This is an attack on our system & Constitution.” Alan Dershowitz. @TuckerCarlson

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2019

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Love Dance (1989).