He is Never Wrong

Trump drags the Hurricane Dorian nonsense into a 6th day.  Just give up, Donald!

Today the president continued to defend his misleading prognostication for the path of Hurricane Dorian, assailing the news media and in the process, digging in and reviving the controversy for a sixth day.

The nearly weeklong controversy originated in a Sunday tweet that declared Alabama was among a handful of Southeastern states that “will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated.”

The National Weather Service almost immediately debunked the president’s claim, but he repeated the assertion twice more that day, and one day later he lashed out at an ABC News correspondent who’d fact-checked him on the issue.

The fiasco compounded Wednesday when Trump showed reporters a days-old map forecasting Dorian’s path that had been doctored to include Alabama in the storm’s path.

This graphic includes Sharpie markings extending into Alabama

After being roundly mocked on social media and cable news, Trump spent much of Thursday defending his initial claim with outdated forecasts and railing against the press on Twitter.

And though he is not wrong that some of the earliest models for Dorian’s path included the possibility that Alabama could be impacted by the storm, the probability of any kind of direct hit had diminished nearly entirely by the time of Trump’s tweet, making his repeated assertions misleading at best.

Trump’s continued insistence that Alabama was in the line of fire came as Hurricane Dorian continued to batter the coast of the Carolinas, making landfall in North Carolina overnight and as the Bahamas continued digging out of the wreckage from the punishing storm.

-- text largely by Politico, 09/06/2019