Donald Trump has a really hard time admitting that he was wrong, and he’s willing to do whatever it takes to avoid admitting to a mistake. On Wednesday, Trump displayed an altered hurricane projection map from the National Weather Service that had clearly been altered by someone in the White House with a marker in order to make it seem like the President was actually correct when he said that Hurricane Dorian could hit Alabama. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Link –
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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.
On Sunday as Hurricane Dorian was making its way to The Bahamas about to maybe make that northward turn. Donald Trump tweeted out that, oh no, Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and even Alabama were in the path of this storm and that took everybody by surprise, the National Weather Service in Birmingham, Alabama had to immediately come out and issue a statement saying, no, no, no, no, no. Alabama residents, please stop freaking out. Nobody in this state is in any danger from Hurricane Dorian. So Trump got ridiculed for it. People mocked him, and they rightfully should. I mean the guy spent his weekend golfing instead of paying attention to where the storm was going and he screwed up. He was wrong, but he wasn't about to admit he was wrong. And then yesterday this happened
[going to be hit hitting Florida directly. Maybe I could just see that Kevin it was going to be hitting directly and that would have affected a lot of other states, but that was the original shot going to hit, not only Florida, Georgia could have going towards the Gulf. That was what we originally projected and it took the right turn.]
So in case you can't tell what the president and a Homeland Security's acting secretary Kevin McaLeenan, who was the guy who handed him the chart, uh, they apparently took a sharpie and just add it on to the, uh, cone of uncertainty for the storm to include parts of Alabama, thereby making Trump's claim just a few days earlier. Not Wrong. They altered a hurricane projection map in an attempt to make the president seem correct, except they did a very poor job of it. I mean, let's be honest, folks, they had three days, right? They could've photo shopped a, a grand new thing. They could have made it look official, but no, no, no, no, no. They, they, they half-assed it like they do everything else and just said, screw it. Get a sharpie. I'm going to draw another extra circle on here, even though it doesn't fit in with how the cone of uncertainty works for hurricanes, you know, just had a little bubble at the end cause oh, there's Alabama that, that, that's, that's not how this works.
And, uh, as Dennis Mezirow pointed out on Twitter, uh, he has a Forbes contributor who writes about whether that's actually a felony. Donald Trump committed a felony just so he wouldn't have to admit, hey folks, I was wrong. Sorry, I didn't mean to say Alabama. I did. I was basing it perhaps on the spaghetti models from when the storm first formed, which actually is something he tried to do yesterday afternoon when he tweeted the following. This was the originally projected path of the hurricane in its early stages. As you can see, almost all models predicted it to go through Florida also hitting Georgia and Alabama. I accept fake news apologies. Um, now that, that map contained in that tweet there, that's what they call the spaghetti model. Except that wasn't actually even from the National Weather Service. And if you click on that map, you know, make it bigger so you can see it.
You'll see at the very bottom where it mentions the fact that, hey, this isn't from the National Weather Service or the National Hurricane Center, I believe, and this map is not meant to take the place of those maps. It's, it's only a bit of a supplement, but if they come out with something new, trust them, and not this spaghetti model, because that was made on August 29th
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