Trump: 'Politics' Over Ban Threatens US 'Security and Safety'

President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday morning that "politics" is to blame if the government does not win the court battle over his immigration order, as it "obviously should."

He made his pitch on Twitter early Wednesday.

If the U.S. does not win this case as it so obviously should, we can never have the security and safety to which we are entitled. Politics!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 8, 2017

His appeal came on the heels of Tuesday's hearing in San Francisco's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, where a panel of appeals court judges hammered away at the federal government's arguments that the states cannot challenge the order.

Trump's ban has been on travel and immigration in the U.S. by people from some Muslim-majority nations on hold for more than a week as a result of the court challenge.

he hearing before the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals judges was the greatest legal challenge yet to the ban, which has upended travel to the U.S. for more than a week and has tested the new administration's use of executive power.