Even Fox News ripped Donald Trump’s meteorology lesson claiming that Alabama would be hit by Hurricane Dorian. The Fox meteorologist made it clear that Alabama was never in the National Hurricane Forecast Center’s official confidence cone. She pointed out that the map that Trump showed was “inaccurate, misleading and fake.”
The map was altered by one of Trump’s aides using Trump favorite pen, the Sharpie.
Correction
It was Trump who altered the map
When he said that Alabama was in the path of the hurricane, he said after he met with hurricane officials, but he talked with little or no authority. He was winging it. And he spoke incorrectly about the storm.
The hurricane was never predicted to approach the state of Alabama at all. And right after Trump claimed it was in Dorian’s path, the Gov. of Alabama announced that the hurricane was not heading northwest into Alabama.
But Trump has kept railing against the press, and using this mistake he made, as a way to belittle and attack the press and media. Fake news showed the fake map.
This is part Trump’s dangerous attempt to derail the free press. His “enemy of the people” mantra has been central to his attack on the media. It works very well with his base. They go crazy at this rallies and they taunt and denigrate the press that appear at these rallies.
It’s a war that Trump has started, and the GOP has earmarked millions of dollars to dig up dirt on individual members of the press, and then feed these stories to Trump to continue his war on the press.
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