September 5, 2019: Trump's Bogus Hurricane Map

 

9/5/19: President Trump spends his morning studying climate science and boning up on how Category 5 hurricanes form. 

You wish!

Check the man's fingers for black stains.

 

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Still an ill-informed buffoon.

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Rather than address the growing threat, the Trump administration rolls back rules first passed in 2007 to require more energy efficient light bulbs in every socket in the land. Had the standards gone into final effect next year, they would have saved as much energy as can be produced by 25 large power plants. That would have been enough to light all the homes in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for the year. In the end, consumers would have saved money, switching out old bulbs.

 

It doesn’t matter, because Trump is busy trying to prove he was right when he said Hurricane Dorian was going to hit Alabama. He had a map from the National Weather Service he wanted everyone to see. With cameras in the Oval Office running, and an aide to help him hold his display, Trump shows reporters the “evidence.” Strangely enough, someone appears to have added a line, using a black Sharpie, to indicate that the people of Alabama could have been wiped from the map. 

Let’s just say the “enemies of the people” were less than impressed. First, reporters found the original National Services map and posted pictures – showing – well – not showing a black line. 

The dastardly New York Times had the nerve to go straight to the sources and inquire about the bizarre discrepancy. “A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security said that he was unclear what the black line on the map was referring to and that he needed to gather additional information,” reporters noted. “He later referred questions about the map to the White House.” 

This is how we pass the buck in Trumpistan. 

Next, reporters asked the president, himself, how the black line could have ended up on the map. 

“I don’t know,” he replied.

 

In any case, the President of the United States kept insisting he was right – even though, while other governors had declared states of emergency as Dorian threatened, the governor of Alabama had not. 

This meant White House aides were forced to waltz around hard facts, and spurred a new bout of presidential lying. Trump soon tweeted a new map, this time provided by the South Florida Water Management District. He said it supported his claim that the people of Alabama had been doomed. “This was the originally projected path of the Hurricane in its early stages,” he said. “As you can see, almost all models predicted it to go through Florida also hitting Georgia and Alabama.” 

“I accept the Fake News apologies!” he said.

 

Alas, sharp-eyed reporters noticed that the latest map Trump was waving around carried a disclaimer. Any information from the National Hurricane Center or local emergency officials would supersede it. “If anything on this graphic causes confusion, ignore the entire product [emphasis added].” 

Trump had proved again that after 31 months in office, he was still nothing more than an ill-informed buffoon. 

Also: a pathological liar.