Trump Slams ABC for Reporting His Mistaken Statement that Dorian Could Affect Alabama

[Zippyjuan]

As you can see, almost all models predicted it to go through Florida also hitting Georgia and Alabama. I accept the Fake News apologies!

Actually only a couple of the more extreme models do. Not "almost all". And by the time he made the Alabama claim on September 1st, none of the models showed it hitting Alabama.

Trump had re-tweeted a projection map from the National Weather Service five hours earlier which did not show Alabama threatened by the storm prior to his tweet warning Alabama.

 

[Occam's Banana]

The Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang wondered whether Trump had been using the map to rationalize his mistake and also pointed out issuing false or altered official weather forecasts is a violation of US law:

Altering official government weather forecasts isn’t just a cause for concern — it’s actually illegal. Per 18 U.S. Code 2074, which addresses false weather reports, “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.”

Jeebus! Trump doubles down on something stupid, and of course, rather than just roll their eyes and move on, the media sees his bet and raises him ... jeebus!

SMH ... Pretty soon we're gonna be hearing about "Doriangate" ...

 

[devil21]

The Sharpie thing. OK, first time I'll write this but I think it's an indicator that Trump is trying to show everyone how fake and stupid this all is. I mean...come on.

The alternative....is just too much...is that we truly have a certifiable loon holding the highest visible public office in the land.

 

[kpitcher]

The Sharpie thing. OK, first time I'll write this but I think it's an indicator that Trump is trying to show everyone how fake and stupid this all is. I mean...come on.

The alternative....is just too much...is that we truly have a certifiable loon holding the highest visible public office in the land.

Careful, you'll be labeled as having TDS if you start thinking the emperor has no clothes.

 

[Schifference]

If you think Trump says some crazy schite just wait till Joey gets the podium.

 

[Schifference]

I always thought it funny that the man did all the driving. He drives all the time. The woman complains about the mans driving. But the man drives whenever they go out. When they go on vacation. He drives all the time. It stands to reason that a person that rarely gets behind the wheel would have less opportunity to cause an accident or get a moving violation.

There have been presidents that have been in office for multiple terms that rarely say a word. You wouldn't even know they were in office. All their statements were prepared for them. They never answered questions. A President that communicates with the people multiple times each day via a hand held device will obviously have more opportunity to say something wrong than a President that rarely ever speaks to the public.

A person that sits behind a desk all day has little opportunity to be injured when compared to a construction worker. Yet, the office worker might consider the construction worker accident prone.

Imagine Trump said, "You people in Alabama don't have anything to worry about. I have looked at the models. The storm is never going to get anywhere near you."

 

[devil21]

Careful, you'll be labeled as having TDS if you start thinking the emperor has no clothes.

I have to believe that he's subtly trolling everyone to make them wake up. Have to. Millions upon millions hang raptly to every word uttered from a room hundreds or thousands of miles away. Trot out such a ridiculous thing as that Sharpie map, with a serious look and tone? Gotta be trolling to show how ridiculous it is that people spend so much time thinking and fighting about what he says day-to-day. Right?

If not.....the alternative.....just too much.

(eta: or they're coding info into this sort of stuff, also a possibility. Alabama hurricane, buying Greenland, etc. Yeah codes. Anything but the alternative that this dude is a complete loon.)

 

[Superfluous Man]

I always thought it funny that the man did all the driving. He drives all the time. The woman complains about the mans driving. But the man drives whenever they go out. When they go on vacation. He drives all the time. It stands to reason that a person that rarely gets behind the wheel would have less opportunity to cause an accident or get a moving violation.

There have been presidents that have been in office for multiple terms that rarely say a word. You wouldn't even know they were in office. All their statements were prepared for them. They never answered questions. A President that communicates with the people multiple times each day via a hand held device will obviously have more opportunity to say something wrong than a President that rarely ever speaks to the public.

A person that sits behind a desk all day has little opportunity to be injured when compared to a construction worker. Yet, the office worker might consider the construction worker accident prone.

Imagine Trump said, "You people in Alabama don't have anything to worry about. I have looked at the models. The storm is never going to get anywhere near you."

Or, after he made the mistake one time, and then was corrected, he could simply have admitted the mistake, said his statement was based on an earlier model that had since been superseded, reassured the people of Alabama in light of the latest models, and nobody would have thought anything of it.

Instead, he gets so wound up about having a mistake pointed out and insistent that he never makes mistakes, that he can't bring himself to do that.

 

[nikcers]

Or, after he made the mistake one time, and then was corrected, he could simply have admitted the mistake, said his statement was based on an earlier model that had since been superseded, reassured the people of Alabama in light of the latest models, and nobody would have thought anything of it.

Instead, he gets so wound up about having a mistake pointed out and insistent that he never makes mistakes, that he can't bring himself to do that.

He didnt make a mistake.

 

[Superfluous Man]

He didnt make a mistake.

He made a false statement in the tweet provided in the OP. After he made that false statement, his own National Weather Service had to issue a statement saying the opposite of what he said. And then he still wouldn't admit that his statement, which was easily proven false, actually was false.

The only consolation I can see is that his own reputation for truthfulness is so nonexistent, that nobody in Alabama was liable to take him seriously.

 

[nikcers]

He made a false statement in the tweet provided in the OP. After he made that false statement, his own National Weather Service had to issue a statement saying the opposite of what he said. And then he still wouldn't admit that his statement, which was easily proven false, actually was false.

The only consolation I can see is that his own reputation for truthfulness is so nonexistent, that nobody in Alabama was liable to take him seriously.

He was telling the truth

 

[Influenza]

As usual, trumpeteers deny objective reality in order to continue worshiping their omniscient, perfectly moral deity

 

[nikcers]

As usual, trumpeteers deny objective reality in order to continue worshiping their omniscient, perfectly moral deity

You're wrong.

 

[Influenza]

You're wrong.

Oh sorry, I did not realize you were doing a Swordsmyth impression. My apologies.

 

[nikcers]

Oh sorry, I did not realize you were doing a Swordsmyth impression. My apologies.

You are doing a good job zippyjuan

 

[Superfluous Man]

He was telling the truth

Source?

 

[nikcers]

Source?

Fakenews.com

 

[Superfluous Man]

Fakenews.com

Trump's tweet is right there in the OP. You don't deny that he really tweeted it. It clearly wan't true when he said it. But you claim it was true. What's your reason for believing that?

Aside from the fact that it's Trump, so it must be true.

 

[nikcers]

Trump's tweet is right there in the OP. You don't deny that he really tweeted it. It clearly wan't true when he said it. But you claim it was true. What's your reason for believing that?

Aside from the fact that it's Trump, so it must be true.

Hurricane Dorian was an inside job

 

[Superfluous Man]

Hurricane Dorian was an inside job

Gotcha.