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I wasn't going to touch this topic, but his sheer persistence in his error is pushing things into cray-cray town.
At least he didn't use his gold one....exactly. Who is going to take away his sharpie?
...exactly. Who is going to take away his sharpie?
Oh Joy....
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Just because you slept with someone named Stormy, it does not make you a weatherman."
Never stand between the climate change theorists and their egos, either. The fact is that, at the time of the remark, nobody knew where Dorian was headed, what her strength might be, or the impact she would have. Some models did suggest that she would cross into the Gulf of Mexico, which means that coastal Alabama could have been impacted.Never stand between a Trump and his ego....
Trump Slams ABC for Reporting His Mistaken Claim That Dorian Could Affect Alabama
The fact is that, at the time of the remark, nobody knew where Dorian was headed, what her strength might be, or the impact she would have.
This is almost completely untrue. At the time that Trump wrote his tweet, on September 1, the forecast and modeling clearly showed that the hurricane would turn north and follow the coast up to the Carolinas. This was not a "nobody knows" scenario. There was a zero percent chance at that time of Alabama being affected.The fact is that, at the time of the remark, nobody knew where Dorian was headed, what her strength might be, or the impact she would have. Some models did suggest that she would cross into the Gulf of Mexico, which means that coastal Alabama could have been impacted.
I wasn't going to touch this topic, but his sheer persistence in his error is pushing things into cray-cray town.
As Hurricane Dorian unleashed torrential rains on the Carolinas on Thursday morning, President Trump continued to push his erroneous contention from the weekend that Alabama could have been affected by the life-threatening storm.
In his first tweets of the morning, Trump insisted that what he first said in a Sunday tweet was accurate at the time and attacked the news media.
“What I said was accurate! All Fake News in order to demean!” Trump wrote.
Alabama residents! Be on the lookout for the Army Corps of Engineers cutting trees down and knocking down buildings.
He’s still defending himself. Two more tweets in the last 20 minutes. He can’t let it go.This is almost completely untrue. At the time that Trump wrote his tweet, on September 1, the forecast and modeling clearly showed that the hurricane would turn north and follow the coast up to the Carolinas. This was not a "nobody knows" scenario. There was a zero percent chance at that time of Alabama being affected.
Now, it's true that a few days before (August 28th/29th), a some models did indicate the possibility that Dorian would head into the Gulf, but different models showed different possibilities, and models change on a daily - and even hourly - basis. You can't go off of a single model, and models from a few days before are no longer going to be accurate.
Honestly, it's not that big of a deal that Trump screwed it up. It happens - he saw the model(s) with Alabama in the projected path and thought it was worth mentioning. The concerning thing is that, rather than admitting he was wrong when corrected, he doubled down and continues to do so.
He’s still defending himself. Two more tweets in the last 20 minutes. He can’t let it go.
At the time, that didn't mean it wouldn't happen.Within 20 minutes of his tweet, "the National Weather Service immediately contradicted the statement, without mentioning Trump, of course. “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian,” the National Weather Service office in Birmingham, Alabama, tweeted. "
The fact is that, at the time of the remark, nobody knew where Dorian was headed, what her strength might be, or the impact she would have. Some models did suggest that she would cross into the Gulf of Mexico, which means that coastal Alabama could have been impacted.
At the time, that didn't mean it wouldn't happen.