I knew it!.
According to a White House official, President Donald Trump was the one who used a black Sharpie marker to alter an
official National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration map to include Alabama in Hurricane Dorian's trajectory during an Oval Office presentation earlier this week,
The Washington Post reported.
That makes perfect sense. It is hard to understand how anyone in the White House would doctor a NWS map depicting a Cat 5 hurricane barreling into our coast that is to be viewed by the President. Under the current circumstances, only Trump would do that.
For the sixth day Captain Queeg, er, Trump, is defending his moronic forecast on Sunday, Sept. 1.
“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.”
Of course, as sure as the sun rises, Queeg, er, Trump is relying on lying, hoping no one will remember what he said. Trump didn't say that "at he beginnings of Hurricane Dorian" Alabama would be "grazed or hit."
He said, "In addition to Florida - South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated."
"At the beginnings." Also, the President, in providing a weather forecast to the American people, saw nothing wrong with using four day old weather maps despite regular briefings on Dorian's path.
That is nothing short of incredulous and suggests there is something seriously wrong with our President. His doggedness in pursuing this issue is very strange.
I said in the OP. "A more important question is this. Does he ever listen to briefings? Or, does he already have an opinion about vital issues and he doesn't want to be bothered by facts?"
This issue is about a hurricane. Other issues could involve threats to our economy, a growing threat of war in the Middle East, North Korea tests a nuclear device, Russia becoming more aggressive in Ukraine, China's expansion in the South China Sea, etc., etc. The reader gets my point.