Trump refuses to back down over Dorian claims
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It鈥檚 been six days and US President Donald Trump and the US media can鈥檛 seem to let go of a tit-for-tat involving the danger Alabama faced during Hurricane Dorian.
The bizarre episode has taken on an even more bizarre mascot 鈥 a Sharpie marker used to alter a map of the storm鈥檚 trajectory. Trump insisted via Twitter that he was correct about the danger the southern US state had faced. He has brandished a mysteriously altered weather map in the Oval Office. He has deployed a rear admiral. And the US media has lapped it up.
On Friday 鈥 a day when survivors in the Bahamas and other places where the hurricane actually did hit were trying to rebuild their lives 鈥 Trump once more took to Twitter to argue about Alabama. The media 鈥渨ent Crazy, hoping against hope that I made a mistake (which I didn鈥檛),鈥 he wrote. 鈥淪till without an apology.鈥
The spat might seem insignificant as one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record wheels up the edge of the US east coast after pulverizing the Bahamas. But in terms of attention given by Trump, what鈥檚 become known as 鈥淪harpie-gate鈥 is no sideshow.
The strange tale began when Trump tweeted on September 1 that Alabama was among the states facing damage from the still approaching Dorian and would 鈥渕ost likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated.鈥
Minutes after Trump鈥檚 alarming tweet, the National Weather Service counter-tweeted: 鈥淎labama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane #Dorian will be felt across Alabama. The system will remain too far east.鈥
By Friday, however, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the agency in charge of the NWS, seemed to vindicate Trump.
鈥淔rom Wednesday, August 28, through Monday, September 2, the information provided by NOAA and the National Hurricane Center to President Trump and the wider public demonstrated that tropical-storm-force winds from Hurricane Dorian could impact Alabama. This is clearly demonstrated in Hurricane Advisories #15 through #41,鈥 it said.
Furthermore, it stated, 鈥淭he Birmingham National Weather Service鈥檚 Sunday morning tweet spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time.鈥
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