Trump says 'I don't know' how map was altered to show Alabama in Hurricane Dorian's path
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Trump says 'I don't know' how map was altered to show Alabama in Hurricane Dorian's path
Dylan Stableford 15 hours ago Trump says he doesn’t know if a map of Hurricane Dorian’s path was altered
During a briefing on Hurricane Dorian in the Oval Office Wednesday, President Trump showed reporters an enlarged map displaying what he said was the initial forecasted path of the storm. 
The map, which was displayed on a posterboard, appeared to have been altered with a marker, extending the storm’s path to include Alabama. Over the weekend, Trump had mentioned Alabama as one of the states that could be affected by Dorian.
The National Weather Service said the state was in no danger from the storm.
In a tweet Monday night , the president bristled at the suggestion by ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl that his forecast was wrong.
Taking questions from journalists at a separate event on efforts to combat the opioid epidemic Wednesday, Trump was asked if he knew if the map had been altered.
“No,” the president replied. “I just know, I know Alabama was in the original forecast. They thought they would get it as a piece of it. It was supposed to go — actually we have a better map than that which is going to be presented where we had many lines going directly, many models, each line being a model, going directly through. And in all cases, Alabama was it.”
He said there had been a “95 percent probability” of Dorian’s path going through Alabama, “but then it made that right turn that a lot of people didn’t expect.”
The storm, which is being blamed for at least seven deaths in the Bahamas, is now expected to skirt up the southeastern U.S. coast and make landfall as far north as the Carolinas between late Wednesday and early Thursday.
Trump was asked if the map he displayed was altered using a Sharpie, the president’s pen of choice.
“I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know,” he replied.
Dennis Mersereau, a weather blogger and Forbes magazine contributor, noted on Twitter that it is a violation of federal law to falsify a weather report.
According to 18 U.S. Code § 2074 , “whoever knowingly issues or publishes any counterfeit weather forecast or warning of weather conditions falsely representing such forecast or warning to have been issued or published by the Weather Bureau, United States Signal Service, or other branch of the Government service, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both.”
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The devil did it. Either that or Geraldine did it.
Of course it was someone else. Trump never does anything wrong, we all know that. He's a big moral Christian and would never lie, ya know.
Caught in another lie, what else is new....sickening!
How hard is it to just own up to a mistake, Donny?
Your ego can't take that kind of bruising? Jayzus!
This is pretty stupid. Does anyone really think the president has anything at all to do with the production of forecasts or maps?
Clearly, Dennis is an idiot.
Does you really not think the president had anything at all to do with the falsification of that map? Yet another apologist comment for Trump.
1) What's false about it? 2) Why would the president be involved in falsifying a map? 3) Do you really imagine that he himself is busting out the Sharpie?
You mentioned the Sharpie and yet you have to ask what's false about it?
Because he can't stand being proven wrong, never admits when he's wrong, and constantly lies (or moves goalposts) to try to pretend he wasn't wrong, maybe?
Absolutely. Sure, one of his aides could have done it to calm down Trump's temper, but it's definitely possible that he did it himself because he needs his fantasy world where he's never wrong.
Fox News might be hiring. You'd be perfect, based on your defense of Trump here. Although even Fox called him out for being wrong, so maybe not.
I'm still asking. Maybe someone thought it was incomplete as presented. You have no idea. Why can't you admit that?
He wasn't wrong about Alabama being a potential path in early forecasts.
Why can't you admit that the pos should learn ALL THE FUCKING FACTS before opening his big fat fucking mouth.
1)N E thing Trump says IS TRUE
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2) Because he is a FCKN LYING IDIOT !
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3) FCKN A RIGHT I DO !
It;s sittin right there on hi desk
.
.
Don't B A Trump
own up to the FACT you ENABLE a Mental Midget to EMBARRASS THE HELL OUT OF OUR COUNTRY.
Face it, people f'd up, STOP ALREADY !
You're telling us that you see the pen used to mark up the map sitting on his desk? You have better eyesight than I do, I guess. I followed the link and watched the video and I can't see the pen. Is it hiding under the giant rabbit?
Who's the idiot?
Apparently his name is Dennis. Was that unclear?
You can find a statute in the codes, but that doesn't mean someone has violated the law. You need to apply the facts to that law. You need to understand the definitions of terms. You need to understand whether or not specific actions constitute violations of that law. You need to know whether or not the law even applies to a specific person in a specific situation.
If you start thinking about all these things for about half a minute, you'll realize that no crime has been committed. Or maybe you won't.
But don't just assume that some blogger on Twitter knows what he's talking about with respect to federal criminal law and its application to the president.
Take another look at what "Dennis" said, he never accused anyone of violating the law, he just said it was against the law. Again, I ask, "Who's the idiot"?
No, he said Trump was violating the law. Read the actual tweet you're trying to talk about.
You really want to keep on with this childish passive-aggressive stuff?
So instead of continuing to ask me . . . maybe ask yourself that.
Yeah, he's right about that.
From August 29 :
From August 30 :
A week ago, competing computer models could not agree on what would happen with the hurricane. Now that it has settled into a more certain path, apparently some people want to look back and act like it was inevitable and obvious that it would go the way it did.
You clearly didn't bother reading about this - or if you did, you choose to ignore just how stupid Trump was. He tweeted DAYS after these. As the head of FEMA, do you really not expect the President of the United States to provide current and correct information about natural disasters?
Uh, Brock Long is the head of FEMA and even he doesn't predict the weather. The National Weather Service under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) does that. People like Trump and Brock are simply passing along the information they have been given.
Well guess what - Brock passes along ACCURATE and timely information. Trump passes along bullshit and claims he never heard of a Cat 5. And then he doubles down on his bullshit.
Look at the maps. Do they show a possible path into Alabama or not? You do know where Alabama is, yes? Trump said Alabama was in the original forecast. That's true. You just can't bring yourself to admit it, can you?
You are really something when it comes to Trump apologists.
Trump said that the news just came in. Days after we knew the hurricane wouldn't impact Alabama.
You just can't bring yourself to admit it, can you? Look at the fucking timeline.
And you are really something when it comes to TDS and condemning someone when you have no facts to support your accusation.
I'm not defending anything. I am acknowledging that Alabama was in the forecast and admitting that I cannot know what Trump's experience was with forecasts and briefings.
But you know it all apparently.
They do, the problem is that trump made the statement 4 days later, AFTER recent maps showed that Dorian was not going to hit Alabama. When told that, he lied about it, two more times.
Tacos, please, just stop. You either dont know or are misrepresenting the facts of this situation. Dont be like Trump. People here say you are a good guy.
Seth Meyers comments:
Trump Keeps lying about Dorian and Alabama: A Closer Look
To the confusion of some, when the hurricane's path was projected Sunday to go up the East Coast, avoiding Alabama, Trump tweeted : "In addition to Florida — South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated."
About 20 minutes later, the National Weather Service in Birmingham, Alabama, tweeted : "Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian " because the storm "will remain too far east."
Later that day, Trump twice told reporters that Alabama was in the storm's path, first sa ying outside of Marine One that "Alabama is going to get a piece of it, it looks like," and later , at a Federal Emergency Management Agency briefing, saying the storm "may get a little piece of a great place: It's called Alabama."
What is your complaint? Clearly he was told Alabama was at risk at some point and the computer models clearly said so. You have no idea if he was ever told Alabama was in the clear. But you keep acting like it's a thing he made up out of whole cloth.
He was NEVER told it was. The picture is fake and he is a fucking liar.
Well gee, you think maybe he should have found out before he spoke to the American people on what threats they might be facing, like a responsible President would do? Like every other President does? Like FEMA and NOAA do?
It is. That's why he needed the Sharpie. /smh
You've been hanging out with him the White House, eh?
What picture is fake? And how would you know?
They way you claim to have inside knowledge of what goes on with the president, your credibility doesn't look too hot either.
Facts are wasted on some people I guess. I showed you three official maps with arrows pointing at Alabama and you still won't believe.
Keep defending the liar that CAN'T ADMIT HE FUCKED UP......
Ironic.
Yet you ignore the FACT that he was corrected by the National Weather Service, yet he still claimed that Alabama was in its path. Then instead of admitting (at best) that he made the claim from dated material, he chose to falsify the chart he was presenting to reporters.
Update: Trump is still claiming Alabama was in harms day, today .
He can NEVER admit he made a mistake and fudge a map as "proof"... He still today will NOT ADMIT HE WAS WRONG.
Who's?
Who the frick elses wouldshe betalkin about ?
Speaking of tiresome and endless . . .
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Oh they see it alright, they just fall into 2 categories.
We endlessly see Trump supporters supporting his idiocy. If we say something about those Trump supporters, then we are the bad guy.
It is inexplicable.
Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday Sept 1st that the hurricane would very likely hit Alabama. Trump was basing this prediction on a map projection that was FOUR DAYS OLD. So no, he wasn't "right" , he was WRONG , and we know he was wrong because 20 minutes after his tweet on Sunday the National Hurricane Center felt the necessity to correct him. They said, at appx the exact time Trump was telling America that the hurricane would hit Alabama, that Dorian was no threat to Alabama. There could not be a clearer refutation of Trump by the authority on hurricanes.
Ok, Trump used the wrong map, I suppose it could happen , it shouldnt happen to the president, but it could happen. Move on.
What does Trump do? He draws on a map with a magic marker to make himself look better. All that really achieved was to make him look like an idiot.
Thanks Trump supporters, you are really rolling along. s.
You have no idea what Trump based his prediction on, but if you scroll up, you'll see a couple of maps showing the hurricane headed for Alabama that would have been two days old at most at that time. And that was just me doing a quick search. I don't claim it was exhaustive. Seems like you get things mixed up, too.
Oh, I apologize. I didn't know you saw him draw on the map. Did he say why he was drawing on the map?
WHO CARES? Running a thread on Trump and a photo smacks of lacking a life. Not interested in debate. Just pointing out the obvious
That he lied? Yep, it needs to be pointed out, but lets be honest, pointing out trumps lies is a full time job.
Trump was wrong. He was using old information. He is the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES for god sake, not a crappy TV game show host anymore.
He wasnt right he was wrong. If you arent willing to ever admit that you should probably forego posting.
Preacher, no one cares about your Bible ramblings either. Why do you defend an obviously unstable man for the highest office in the land? Lets make it about you.
No. That who cares? [deleted]
Whether you care about my Bible posts is between you and God. I have to be accountable to God in whether I obey my calling as a minister and warn every person to repent and turn to God
as to Trump, it’s very simple.
Because he’s 10,000% a better alternative than the Godless Communists and Marxist Fascist baby killers in the Democratic Party.
No doubt Trump is a badly flawed and arrogant individual. But he’s not proposing to have taxpayers pay for abortions, raise taxes, increase regulations, increase totalitarian control over our lives and businesses, take away our right to keep and bear arms.
Trump is also the best American president in support of Israel. The President who’s taken the most actions to defend our religious liberties from the endless assault by the Democrats.
Trump is the only president who hasn’t bent over in submission to the UN, NATO, or other international one world organizations
so until someone better comes along, I’m sticking with the only president to actually defend and promote this country and the things that made it once great
Yet here you are, caring.
He lied? He intentionally lied about the path of the hurricane? Why?????
Maybe he was, but you make it sound like he was intentionally trying to mislead people. It seems FAR more likely to me that the people whose job it is to keep him briefed screwed up somehow. The notion that the president would intentionally lie about the path of a hurricane - apparently assuming no one would dare contradict him - is just beyond loony.
He said Alabama was in the early forecasts. That is true and I have proved it's true with actual maps. That's the only statement of his I have attempted to defend.
That's twice in this seed you have tried to get me to stop expressing my opinion. And I'm not the only person you want to shut up. You don't get to tell me or anyone else to stop posting. I might disagree with you, but you'll never see me trying to shut down your voice.
No one can tell you to stop posting. I was merely suggesting that if you are going to constantly try and defend the indefensible with Trump you might want to rethink that as a course of action.
Trump was WRONG with his Sunday tweet . He was not right. It was known that the course had changed before he tweeted.
Keep going like this and everyone will be wondering what you are doing.
TRUMP: THE HURRICANER IN CHIEF!
(He tells a Storm to "Go!" and the Storm does so!)
He lied or he is incredibly dumb.
for only a $130,000 Stormy went away, and for another $130,000 she took her Playmate as well
What R u supposing Dorian cost him, besides his FACE, that he can't Face
You think I care about what you wonder?
i can't speak for John, but i personally, think you are taking your defense of Trump, way to far on this one.
I appreciate various points you make, on this one , Sharpiegate, i thnk you need to check out some different sources, as Trump,
appears to have
jumped the Sharpie
on this one.
There is NO DEFENSE on this one, yet he just keeps doubling down, and so do you, and i do not understand Y
That's fine. We can disagree. I think the outrage goes too far. Maybe the guy was misinformed. Maybe he doesn't get enough sleep and was still thinking about a briefing he had three days prior. We could play maybe all day.
But people actually being angry over this? Saying he lied? That he intentionally deceived the country? Please! What are y'all mad about? Did all of Alabama evacuate unnecessarily? Where was the harm?
This story is about as important - and just as overblown - as Obama and his 57 states or saying that he bowls like "Special Olympics." It deserves maybe a comment that it was wrong, dumb or confusing (though for all we know, there was actually a good reason for it), but treating it like an actual scandal is far dumber.
Problem is, this would of been long forgotten by now, but Trump just put it , again, front and center , yesterday, then again today, yjen also tweeted about it.
The man has a serious problem, imho
Tacos, even you have to admit that the best thing Donny could have done was re-tweeted that he was wrong after Hurricane Center told him he was in error. He could have tweeted something like this:
"Folks! I was wrong. Earlier I thought Alabama was in the path but I have been given updated information. My bad!"
(I think that's 140 characters or less)
Any person of character would have done exactly that. YOU would have done that because your ego isn't so YUGE that you can admit when you're wrong. Did we make a mountain out of an anthill? Yeah...we did. But it was fun building that mountain because the jokes write themselves!
That should read "He lied because he is incredibly dumb."
Pretty obvious that trump isn't the sharpiest tool in the shed.
I saw what you did there
Came up with it while moving broken concrete..
LOL! I get some of my best ideas while doing manual labor. However, I don't do very much manual labor and rarely come up with good ideas!
Everyone wants to BUY GREENLAND!
Trump must be lying because he's not giving out perfect hurricane forecasts! And he would do that because . . . muh feelings!
For Forecasters, Hurricane Dorian Has Already Been a Handful
I liked the fact that he was too stupid to send an aid out to buy a white marker.
And yet how surprised was he when EVERYONE saw through his diabolical black marker forgery???
This might be the dumbest, most pointless debate in the history of this site.
carry on.
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OH MY KNOWOSE
OH MY KNOWSE
OH MY NOWSE
OH MY NOSE
C, how it GROWS !
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it's not the stupid, yet again, 12,642 time that the guy lied,
it's the excuses his 'supporters' provide!
Then, even after he doubles, triples, quadruples down, so are
his defenders, still attempting to justify and rationalize for this fckn CLOWN !
.
Pull my little middle finger, honk my big orange nose !
just disregard the regulations i just lifted, forget about the penny's pinched by Pence to enrich my rents, my never ending praise for Putin cause he;s just G r8, n Lil' Kim's 10 missile tests im n IN,
look at how i can draw a Black reservoir tip
on a White rubber
Whale and seamen tail
cause with my black sharpie, it is i,
the one n only Trump ,
that shall Peevail
Oooooohh your house, your house, your house is on fire
Perfect !!
so are Marhas thighs, for big man on campus, u know the one, with the arm for a gun.
Sharpiest tool in the shed, till someone let it bleed out, cause it wasn't Dug or Bart Simpson that said it, as i b leave it was homeland security head, givin some up for what Trumppy done did n said.
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n
my house ain't on fire
as
that would be the White House, as Trumps heavy pantz were a burnin with tne desire to again be the ultimate liar in chief, as well as a thief, too busy gulphin in the wrong phish, to no ones dis belief, probably for Dolphin as if he had a porpoise , and wasn't such a natural Fluke,
cause Trump bean a mammal,
is
UNUFF T5O MAKE ME PUKE
So you'll huff .... and you'll puff ..... and you'll try to blow his house down ....
meanwhile "your" house is still on fire .... better check that
Nah, Trump was so pissed off bout not gettin pist upon,
his sobbing tears,
like pouring from a Dorian eye,
done extinguished the flames,
right out from Trumps Sharpie blackened
drawn Eye , that looked like a drip out of his reservoir tip, that had to be torn n RIP,
four eyes r 4 tearing tears right out of ripped and torn pages of novel
and model Tease, the illiterate one is often teased about while T'ing off, as he duct out of site, like a reabsorbed tear, left open to be landed upon by a thirsty butterfly, who aided and abetted a stitch
of truth
found in ones figuring too literally,
the exhausted rest, will never see
how those flappin
bout butterfly wings,
effect our whirled
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musta started on Da Rufe
Y can't i be 'taunted' like the normal posters ?
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Sparty and I were just having fun
sorry, i guess
Your mother wears combat boots?
I'm his mother and I frequently wear combat boots.
What else ya got?
didn't you ?
Ummmm.....
Well, yeah...so....
So my 2 mommies R, an aging cigar smokin hot Budapesty lesbian monk fish, a tempting, to make Caviar with a Gorgeous Giggling Trout named Brooke...
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know wonder i'm so fckd up....
but
i guess
.
i have to
still ask,
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WHO'S Your DADDY ??
No problem, you and i know i wasn't taunting. i just thought you might enjoy as i haiku ....
god bless U
,
i get high with n e letter, even Q
and no, i know you weren't taunting me, my response was back at Perrie, who, i must say, was only doing her duty as R A.
LOL, there are certain folks here who don't like me very much. Some are clearly apparent others prefer to slink around in the shadows.
I file it under shit happens and move on ..... they aren't passing that nasty on to me ..... no way partner!
Post .... ready.... set ..... gone!
We could fill the Grand Canyon with what he "doesn't know". The man is a terrible person, and is deteriorating rapidly with some kind of dementia, he got confused between Alabama and Bahama.
Oh, never-mind ..... i thought perhaps you were talking about Biden or even maybe Mr 57 states ....
Carry on with the TDS'g .......
My thoughts and prayers go out to all the victims of the terrible damage the storm has done in Alabama!
Follow up to this article.
Trump DID alter the map with a sharpie.
shocking
Sadly, nothing trump does shocks me anymore. He is one epic failure after another...
Perhaps they should have named Dorian, "Trump", since it has no direction and destroys everything it touches.
They go alphabetically...Donny would have fit
I want a hurricane named after me!
Hurricane 'Giggles' just..... it kinda fails on the 'menacing' front a tad bit..
The Terrible tumultuous terrifying turning and churning typhoon ish type, telephone pole takin, earth and house shakin, telegraphic film makin, telekinetic energy displacing water with rage taking a toll upon our surf and turf, known as TROUT GIGGLES with a BEEF, was easily washed a way by a not very Sharpie one who became a pun, after chewing an Alabamian Crimson Tide Pod, a conniving Joker Card, known as Trump , Trump of Mar a LARD
Oh
Sorry, best i could do in 4 minutes
It was one of your best!
The Joker is in fact mentioned in the video in comment #8.1.8.
(Plus Seth Meyers is pretty funny as well)
i did enjoy it thanx
Of course he did but trumpsters et al keep excusing his lies.
The most disturbing thing about this article, in my opinion, is that trump altered the map, with a sharpie for one reason and one reason only: To protect his ego. He did this literally so he wouldn't look like he was wrong. Now that's disturbing enough, but even worse is that his supporters are trying to defend it.
As has been pointed out above, a few times now, people rely on these maps to make life and death decisions. Yet donny decided to alter the map to protect his ego. How many people saw that and packed up and evacuated? Doing that isn't cheap. Will those people who were duped be refunded the money they spent evacuating for trumps ego? No.
Life and death decisions, thrown under the bus because trump couldn't simply say, "Hey, I made a mistake, sorry about that".
Disgusting.
Trump? Admit he was wrong.
Exactly.. It will simply never happen. He would rather people die than ever admit he was wrong.
I would resign!
I would have just told him to go fuck himself.
unheard of for that arrogant and egotistical pile of shit
Admitting to being wrong to a narcissist is akin to asking Superman to hold a rock of krytonite. It will never happen.
I get what you're saying, but there's no way I would rely on this guy to tell me if the sky is blue today. I would literally go outside and check for myself. And I would certainly not rely on him to tell me where the hurricane is tracking. I'm going to get updates from my local weather man before I get it from him.
With all that said, anybody who relied on Donny for hurricane information and evacuated when they didn't need to, deserves the unnecessary expenses.
That is what a normal person would do, I would do the same thing. The problem is that trump supporters live and breathe by every word that comes out of trumps mouth. They believe everything he says.
Wise choice, but I have the best local weather person in the country, so...yea..
Yea, that's a fair point..
in our local TV market the weather forecasts are mostly wrong, so TPTB hire really attractive females as meteorologists, that way nobody cares if they're wrong.
I have the NOAA and Weather Underground doppler apps on my phone which give me a pretty good idea of what's heading my way.
If any of his supporters took the altered map to heart, they deserve just what they get.
That would be one of the ways the modern gene pool thins itself.......
Who is relying on the specific map in the hands of Donald Trump to make a life and death decision? What are their names?
I'm going to go out on a limb and say the number is zero.
Trump is holding a National Weather Service map. They issue warnings so people can get out of harms way. Altering one, (like using a sharpie on one), is a federal crime, it's a felony. What are the names of the people that use the maps? Um, like everyone in the nation?
Could be true, I was speaking hypothetically. But don't tell me you wouldn't be pissed if trump said a hurricane was headed your way, you packed up your shit and drove a few hundred miles only to find out that trump used a sharpie to make it look like he wasn't wrong, 4 days after the fact? My guess is you would be pissed.
You're really trying to tell us that the highest ranking official in the US Govt isn't allowed to draw on one of their maps? Are you sure about that?
Citation?
Honestly . . . what person on planet Earth is getting their emergency weather information only from Donald Trump? And even if there is such a person, do you really think it's the kind of person who is actually going to do something prudent or cautious like evacuate?
By the way, and speaking of maps that people use to make life and death decisions, we had this from CNN during their storm coverage (a place people actually do turn to during times like this). Apparently, they wouldn't know if a sharpie line was covering Alabama or Mississippi.
Anyway, apparently the president was being briefed at least as late as Sept. 2 that Alabama could be impacted by the storm.
So, is it really so weird that it might be on his mind or that someone might have decided to include Alabama on the map as an afterthought? Apparently it is. And apparently the whole business demands more outrage and news coverage than the storm itself or anything else that's happening in the world.
I did. It falls under the department of commerce which is under the executive branch. That means Trump is their boss and can do as he pleases.
How much are you being paid per tRumpsplanation?
That's irony.
That's how i saw it explained on multiple networks.
Even Fox's Sheppard Smith called out Trump's LIE. Then for what, a sixth day, Trump keeps it alive. WTF!
What an embarrassment!
Look it up. It's not difficult....
(NOAA)
i thought he was the Captain of an Arc or something...?
Who is relying on the specific map in the hands of Donald Trump to make a life and death decision?
Here's the relevant law:
Trump may have broken federal law by altering Hurricane Dorian's path on a map to validate his false claim that it could hit Alabama
So . . . what you're saying is . . . IMPEACH!
Over some sharpie on a visual aid in a meeting/presser.
I guess he would have experience with rain and maps?
Time to call Bob Mueller out of retirement again......
This is now day 5 of trump's lying bullshit, can't the fucktard just drop it and shut the fuck up about it.
He can never take responsibility for his own fuck ups, he has to blame someone else.
That's kind of hilarious. Do you really blame Trump for all the attention being paid to this story? Why don't you blame reporters who keep asking him or the press secretary about it? It takes two to have a fight. You really think Trump wants to talk about it? If the media would drop it, no one would be talking about it at all.
No, YOU keep bringing it up over and over and over and over and over and over again. You posted the seed. And you posted another story on the topic within the seed. Other members have done the same thing.
And the media has spent hours on this ridiculous non-story instead of covering something important.
I guarantee you if the media would stop talking about this, you would never hear about it from Trump ever again.
And it's all for what, exactly? Nothing! It's a stupid non-story impacting the lives of exactly zero regular people.
Of course we do. He keeps bringing it up over and over and over and over and over and over again. He cannot and will not admit to being wrong
As bad as he used to be-- lately his condition has rapidly become much worse. Even his closest advisors havwe been commenting on his deteriorating condition:
'He's Losing His S---': Trump's Advisers Are Increasingly Worried About His Mental State Following Days Of Erratic Behavior
" President Trump was the one who doctored a projection of Hurricane Dorian's path before the map was displayed during a White House meeting between Trump and acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, according to a White House official."
"No one else writes like that on a map with a black Sharpie," a White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity told the Post.
'I don't know, I don't know, I don't know,' US president says when asked about apparent use of black marker.
“If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities." - Luke 16:10
Yet all his religious conservative followers continue to cheer on the liar in-chief. I've had many theological differences with religious conservatives over the last 30 years since leaving the fold, but I never thought I'd see such foam at the mouth rabid support for a serial adulterer, twenty times accused of sexual assault, self-admitted sexual predator and proven liar from those who claimed such moral high ground. Apparently, they would have all been big supporters of Bill Clinton who hasn't done half the vile things Trump has if only Clinton had supported conservative judges and proclaimed conservative ideals and told them all they were the "special Americans" deserving of more rights and privileges than liberals, progressives, gays, minorities or immigrants.
can somebody (possibly Trump)
draw it pissing on him, hell, he probably will!
See, that's funny.
More like this: HERE
Trump must be mocked for this-- the more the better!
Why? Because he deserves it.
Plus-- it is fun!
The Internet has already begun to realize this . . .
# SHARPIEGATE TRENDS AS PEOPLE MOCK TRUMP FOR SHOWING HURRICANE DORIAN PATH MAP ALTERED WITH PEN
resident Donald Trump has been widely mocked after he displayed a map showing Hurricane Dorian's projected path in the Oval Office which appeared to have been altered with a marker pen to falsely show it was expected to hit Alabama.
Thousands of people have tweeted using the #Sharpiegate hashtag (alluding to the famous marker pen brand) following the bizarre moment in the White House in which Trump attempted to pass off a doctored National Hurricane Center map showing Dorian's projection as genuine in order to back up his previous claims that Alabama could be affected by the powerful storm. (Read it all)
Here it is on Twitter: NEWS ABOUT SHARPIEGATE
Actually there are several sites on Twitter mocking the Buffoon-in-Chief:
I love the way Trumpsters are posting maps that they claim prove Trump was right about Dorian blowing Alabama.
Butt Trump was NOT shown any of those maps.
Trump was shown the unaltered NWS map that he decided to "fix" with a Sharpie to back up his error.
Then The Donald proceeded to continually lie about the altered the map.
Well......it has finally been determined who the culprit of the altered map really is.
The Butler did it.
In the Library.
On the desk.
With a giant sharpie.
Only the Housekeeper had a Clue.
LOL!! That Trumpie is hilarious.
It's amazing how much energy Trump has and how he is able to get so many things accomplished while still dealing with the Media Mafia and those suffering with psychosis. He was very helpful in retweeting information daily from the National Hurricane Center and with so many followers, many more people were able to get information than probably would have otherwise.
I was looking at the projected paths of Hurricane Dorian and wanted to provide some of those maps here in this comment. There are so many it may take more than one comment to accomplish it. Here is the projected path dated 29 August 2019 at 11am that has so many upset that Trump may have put a little extra projected path that didn't turn out to be accurate. Although neither was the National Hurricane Center accurate on that day at 11am, as you will see.
I haven't seen any tweets from him days after the date of this map like I read above. If there is somewhere they can be found, I would appreciate someone providing them. I know in this country today, you're either free to do what you want or you're guilty until you prove yourself innocent. You know the old two sides of justice, destroy evidence and get off or can't find evidence and still guilty, but anyway here's the map in question.
Well, by golly, I sure wouldn't have thought that hurricane would have made a right turn, like it did, based on this projected path on 29 August 2019 11am and neither did the National Hurricane Center, or they would have put it in their projected track, now wouldn't they? Personally, going by this projected track provided by the National Hurricane Center, I would say it could go all the way across Florida and into the states beyond Florida. Now keep in mind, Tacos has already provided you with the models map. Take a look at it.
Now if you can't see that, maybe you fit into the category Yuri Bezmenov was referring to when he spoke of those who were unable to see what is right in front of their eyes.
Here are some project tracks. Look at the dates.
Think I'm going to finish off in a new comment.
All that is nice, but the bottom couple simply prove that Trump was wrong when he made his tweet on Sep. 1
If he made it on Aug 29 I guess he may have been correct.
Two days is a pretty wide miss. There a lot of national crisis where being off by two days would get people killed.
Now this is what I like. While the rest of the country was waiting for the hurricane to arrived, not welcoming it, of course, but waiting all the same, CNN viewers got to see it after it had already arrived on 27 August 2019. The date is in the bottom right.
Had to make it bigger so you can see that date. LOL
And judging from the projected path that ABC put out that sucker was liable to go down to South America.
If you look at your dates and put your thinking cap on some of you will be able to see even in this last picture above at such a late date there's no indication the hurricane was going to make a right turn, at least from ABC.
Where's the tweet John? I want to see it. I heard him talk about it, actually defending the map, but that was 29 August 2019 at 11am and that projected map had the possibility of the hurricane going anywhere including the whole state of Florida all the way down to the keys. I think Tacos showed you the models that Trump also provided. All he did was defend himself against his accusers who have gone off the deep end.
Let me ask you, was all the good he did wiped out by putting a little hypothesis of the possibility of a the path it may take based on the latest projected path provided by the National Hurricane Center at the time he did it. You know, well maybe you don't know, but this is such petty crap I don't think many are aware of the damage they are doing to themselves by coming up with such crap.
I don't mean you so much as the Democrats in general. I know they had 3 legs in the door and with the election of the bag lady Utopia was theirs, but don't worry. I think the country is ready for Utopia, Socialism, Totalitarianism, Communism or whatever you want to call it. After years of movements in that direction, there are about enough old folks who have lost their minds and many of the young people have been indoctrinated in the school systems, I mean, searching out the Marxist Professors and all we will get what we have allowed to grow and fester.
That is what we have weather 'casters' and million dollar weather 'crafts' for, to inform the public - not just maps themselves - through numerous updated telecasts weather services will tell what they are certain of and what is UNCERTAIN. Being that I followed the 'narrative' hurricane forecast coverages, I was fully warned that they were EXPECTING Hurricane Dorian was 'due to stall' because it was losing its steering "HIGH" which was driving it forward and westward and that it was likely in time turn East and UP as a steering current coming into (the frame) from the West. Everything depending on which HIGH would break down first.
Presidents, by definition, have better sources and access to data than me! People look to the head, or at least, they will listen to the head, because he is supposed to be trustworthy and true in his pronouncements. This rather stupid man could not resist the error of being uninformed and backwards at the time when (he did not even have to speak) all eyes were trained on an incoming disaster!
Sep 1
The problem with what you are saying here is that it simply is not true.
"a little hypothesis of the possibility of a the path it may take based on the latest projected path provided by the National Hurricane Center at the time he did it. "
That is absolutely not true, and I dont know why people like you and Tacos keep saying it. Trump is the president of the United States. He should not be giving his followers stale information about the weather emergencies, even if the effect of it was mostly harmless. When he said on Sep 1st that the hurricane would likely hit Alabama hard, that prediction had already been superseded by new projections , the previous two days. I really dont know whats so hard to understand about this.
Of course it all could have went by without a big controversy except Trump started crying about how unfair he was being treated. He made a mistake. He gave out outdated information. Just suck it up and go on to the next thing, dont bring a doctored map into a press conference.
Now that you're back on Newstalkers , you and Badfish and a couple of the other ones obsessed with the red menace can get together and have an anti-communist drum circle.
Nice to see you Sixpick.
However you should quit this line of thought while you are "ahead" .
There are maps from Aug 30 and Aug 31st that show the path changing to the north and away from Alabama. Those maps were public prior to Trumps tweet on Sunday Sep 1 where he gave his warning about Alabama.
Then he compounded it the next Wednesday by bringing out a map in the oval office that was 8 days old at the time, to "prove" something or other which was unprovable.
Trump is a bamboozler. It is his main lot in life.
Are there no 'handlers,' no staff-assists? No one to stop his "highness" from setting a state on the march? It is plain and simple, President Trump does not listen to informed people, and thus he fhits and turns and step in it.
Trump says he doesn’t know if a map of Hurricane Dorian’s path was altered
Says the guy who carries a black sharpie that he signs EO's with.