‘This nonsense has never happened to another President,’ Trump complained on Twitter.
Donald Trump isn’t letting it go.
The president on Friday continued to defend his misleading prognostication for the path of Hurricane Dorian, assailing the news media and in the process, digging in and reviving the controversy for a sixth day.
“The Fake News Media was fixated on the fact that I properly said, at the beginnings of Hurricane Dorian, that in addition to Florida & other states, Alabama may also be grazed or hit.” Trump said in a series of tweets. “They went Crazy, hoping against hope that I made a mistake (which I didn’t). Check out maps.”
“This nonsense has never happened to another President,” he continued, complaining that he’d been subjected to “four days of corrupt reporting, still without an apology. But there are many things that the Fake News Media has not apologized to me for, like the Witch Hunt, or SpyGate!”
He concluded: “The LameStream Media and their Democrat partner should start playing it straight. It would be so much better for our Country!”
Despite Trump’s assertion that he’d originally suggested Alabama could be “grazed or hit,” the nearly weeklong controversy originated in a Sunday tweet that declared Alabama was among a handful of Southeastern states that “will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated.”
The National Weather Service almost immediately debunked the president’s claim, but he repeated the assertion twice more that day, and one day later he lashed out at an ABC News correspondent who’d fact-checked him on the issue.
The fiasco compounded Wednesday when Trump showed reporters a days-old map forecasting Dorian’s path that had been doctored to include Alabama in the storm’s path.
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Donald Trump isn't letting it go of this one https://t.co/eRHP5tze0Z
— POLITICO (@politico) September 6, 2019
It’s certifiably crazy for the president to keep this Alabama thing going. But it’s beyond negligent to be doing it WHEN THE HURRICANE IS ACTUALLY HITTING OTHER STATES.
— Rory Cooper (@rorycooper) September 5, 2019
Well, he has nothing better to do.
I said something like this on @11thHour this week: The "I wasn't wrong about the hurricane" obsession tells our enemies how easy it is to get inside Trump's closed worldview if they play him right. https://t.co/yAehsMGirA
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 6, 2019
"He felt it necessary to pull out a Sharpie and change the map…No matter how you cut it, this is an unbelievably sad state of affairs for our country.”https://t.co/ECAjDuEqmI
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) September 6, 2019
"He felt it necessary to pull out a Sharpie and change the map…No matter how you cut it, this is an unbelievably sad state of affairs for our country.”https://t.co/ECAjDuEqmI
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) September 6, 2019
The focus isn’t on the original mistake. It’s on the manifest mental disturbance reflected by the bizarre behavior of the president of the United States in obsessively fixating for days on attempting to prove, via mendacious and ridiculous means, that he didn’t make a mistake. https://t.co/CyPZljKuQO
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) September 6, 2019
He must have strong armed someone over at NOAA.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration releases a statement saying it informed President Trump that Hurricane Dorian would affect Alabama, defending his claims https://t.co/figztT5KI3
— The Hill (@thehill) September 7, 2019
Funny, but NOAA didnt tell anyone else early on, including Alabama. I should think if Alabama was included in the path of Dorian, the state would have declared a state of emergency as Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia had.
More controversy from the reality tv presidency. Like I said before, Trump apparently has nothing better to do as president, so he creates and magnifies these endless controversies. It’s entertainment for his fans. Meanwhile, his promises to voters in 2016 go unfulfilled. No time for those.
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