Other things that could use a Presidential national emergency call from Trump instead of a border wall…

• Since Trump’s Oct. 16 tweet about the caravan, 547 people have been shot in Chicago, and 111 people have been killed, according to data from the Chicago Tribune.
• 86 people were killed in the Camp Fire in Paradise, California. Trump did visit after the fires — but he’s now blaming California for not exercising “proper Forest Management” and threatening to cut off emergency aid to the state.
• An average of around three men are killed every day in the U.S. by police officers, according to one estimate in the American Journal of Public Health — which would mean around 255 American men had been killed by law enforcement since Oct. 16.
• There’s no real-time data on deaths from the opioid crisis, but with 67,000 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. every year, according to CDC, it’s likely that roughly 16,000 Americans have died of drug overdoses — including opioids — since October.
• Suicide rates continue to climb, year over year, despite a healthy economy.
• Seven U.S. military officers were killed in Afghanistan since Oct. 16, including six combat deaths. Trump signaled a strategic shift but never addressed the nation about it.
• In Syria, at least 191 civilians were killed by the U.S.-led coalition between Sept. 10 and Nov. 17, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

And rather than address a devastating report by government scientists in November on the economic impacts of climate change, Trump simply said he doesn’t believe it.

The big picture: Per CNN, there are already 31 active declared national emergencies in the U.S., similar to the kind he’s thinking of declaring to build his border wall without Congress……

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