...usually reserved for a time when the Country, not the President, is facing some manner of a crisis.

Of course it's a crisis for Turnip. Since he views everything with him being the center focus. The MEs overwhelmed anything else he had to say about the good of the country. Take away the lies and misrepresentation of facts and you are left with little or nothing except momma's boy is in trouble. He knows he has between now and Nov. to make plans on how to steal the election. The gerrymandering isn't going as well as he had planned. It is possible he could be up for impeachment yet again should there be a real blue wave. Panic is setting in.