What in the actual fuck: The President of the United States altered a National Hurricane Center map

[demmiblue]

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Demovictory9]

1. omg

[Vinca]

2. What you said. LOL.

[MBS]

42. jaw-dropping! n/t

[pangaia]

43. No its not. He's been doing shit like this his entire life. Nothing new...

[MBS]

49. True!

But I found this one particularly pathetic in the amateurishness of his attempt to change publicly confirmed facts. (yes, on second thought, the letter he wrote for his own doctor extolling his fabulous health was up there).

[Haggis for Breakfast]

84. Can you just imagine the panic that would have ensued

in Alabama, IF the NWS had NOT come out and invalidated his reckless announcement ?

I've lived through three hurricanes (FL, TX and FL, again), and once the word is out, people flock to the stores and empty the shelves, race to the gas stations and fill up the cars or high-tail it out of town to safer places. The stampede of panicked, frightened people is dangerous.

His paralyzing stupidity and ruinous ego could have caused an unnecessary crisis and untold damage. But instead of saying that he was mistaken, he doubled down on his completely irresponsible comments.

WHEN DOES THE LINE IN THE SAND GET CROSSED ???

Do people have to fucking DIE for this walking hazmat to be removed ?

[Tanuki]

86. People also would have been cancelling travel plans. I'm sure the tourism in

Orange Beach, Gulf Shores, and other Alabama vacation destinations would have been adversely affected by this totally stupid false alarm, especially over Labor Day weekend.

[MBS]

97. + 1000 n/t

[Bob Loblaw]

94. Any kindergartener can tell you

If you color outside of the lines you simply draw new lines.

[gratuitous]

3. Needy Amin can never be wrong

He's such a small man in so many ways.

[volstork]

22. "Needy Amin"

WOW! That's absolutely brilliant!

[geardaddy]

34. I'm stealing Needy Amin!

LOL

[tblue37]

44. It's been around for some time--and has been my go-to nickname for him for months now. nt

[superpatriotman]

47. +1!

Awesome.

[mcar]

58. Ok, I love that!

Needy Amin.

[malaise]

67. Unfuckingbelievable

This is beyond sick

[LuckyCharms]

4. Holy shit. I thought that map didn't look right. n/t

[TeamPooka]

39. Gotta like how the aide is, "I'm just gonna let the President hold this shit because I want nothing

to do with this."
Sits back down and watches Trump hold the sign himself awkwardly....
LOL

[lapfog_1]

51. the diameter of the cone of uncertainty NEVER decreases

with possible future projections.

Never mind the obvious sharpie drawing

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. No! No he didn't! He couldn't!.........

......Sighs......Yes. Yes he did.

[BigmanPigman]

95. Everyone said the same thing about his Inauguration crowd size too.

He apparently is still acting like a three years old who thinks he is cleverly fooling the adults in his life. He certainly is not learning how to cover up his stupidity any better, is he?

[Dennis Donovan]

6. Oh, that light black line is sooo convincing against the official cone from NHC

This is some sad-ass shit.

[smirkymonkey]

102. That is the most pathetic thing about it.

It's so damn obvious! Who does he think he's fooling? He is such a fucking idiot!

[LuckyCharms]

7. Also, per the twitter comments, map is 5 days old. n/t

[demmiblue]

14. Jesus H. Christ on a trailer hitch... we have entered peak Idiocracy.

[Hortensis]

15. Oh, yes! Lol. Poor fellow. ALL the late-night hosts hit it.

So of course he has a duty to correct them.

[renate]

68. I hope they all talk about this tonight. My god....

This is so in-your-face nuts and totally indefensible. It's the kind of petty, stupid, childish action--not political, not debatable, there are no two sides about this--that even people who aren't interested in politics would realize is pathetic.

[muriel_volestrangler]

59. From 11am AST, Thur 29th Aug

Here's that forecast: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2019/al05/al052019.fstadv.021.shtml?

The last item on it is

OUTLOOK VALID 03/1200Z 28.1N 81.5W...INLAND
MAX WIND 65 KT...GUSTS 80 KT.

That's just south of Orlando, the last point on the diagram the Brat scrawled over. Once a hurricane is inland, its winds decrease (the forecast for 1200 on the 2nd, ie 24 hours earlier, was max sustained winds 115 kts - then, it would have been about 30 miles off Vero Beach). So even if it had got to the closest point to Alabama on the real chart, it would have lost a lot more power (below 64 knots and it stops being called a hurricane). And still wouldn't have reached Alabama.

What we have here is a spoiled child who can't admit he's a dumbass who failed at his basic job of understanding briefings, and passing on information to the public, so he's now trying to alter history to get an excuse. It's pathetic. He's said "get me the diagram where it was closest to Alabama", then "yeah, but what if it went further???? Huh???? Yeah, they didn't think of that", grabbed a sharpie, made up his own pathetic mushroom-shaped extension, said "see? That's huge. That's what women tell me..." and decided to embarrass the USA by showing his stupid drawing on national TV like a 5 year old bringing home what they did in kindergarten.

Just imagine the lack of self-respect his flunkies now have.

[eppur_se_muova]

8. SAD !! nt

[King of the sheep]

9. 18 U.S. Code 2074. 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.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 795; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)”

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2074

[RockRaven]

19. What's the statute of limitations?

I want to see this asshole prosecuted for this after he leaves office. It's actually dangerous/harmful to bullshit the way Shitler does.

[Kali]

20. !!!

Wouldn't it be cool if we could take him down with this?!

Like the murdering criminal gangsters it get taken down because of some tax code violation

[AtheistCrusader]

57. In the end, it'll be the Parks Department and the Weather Bureau that lead the rebellion.

[Tanuki]

89. Thanks for this! Welcome to DU!

[triron]

107. Trump will never be prosecuted. Fucked up justice system. Lame congress.

[Iliyah]

10. Ignorant . . . .

the whole lot of them. sad.

[forgotmylogin]

11. My question:

When was job description for POTUS updated to include “weatherman”?

[forgotmylogin]

63. And I'll add:

Weather is inherently prediction. It's okay to be wrong. Get off my TV screen traitor-tot and go do something important like donkey-punching Mitch McConnell.

[LuckyCharms]

12. He didn't even use a white Sharpie to match

the original line of the cone.

[demmiblue]

18. I know he likes silver sharpies, too... he could of at least used one of those!

[Sogo]

27. He wasn't embarrassed by what he had said at all. This is his way of emphasizing his prediction.

"I'm smarter than ALL the meteorologists."

[RockRaven]

13. He is so pathetic, it is impossible to put into words the degree...

Imagine, if you can, going to such embarrassing lengths to avoid WHAT EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS and just admitting you misspoke. How utterly degrading of oneself, and done with a great deal of forethought and yet such terribly oafish execution.

[Johnny2X2X]

16. We're dealing with a 3rd grade level intellect

My word, this is a joke. The leader of our country used a Sharpie to alter a map so he cold claim he was right.

[Green Line]

17. Is this real?

[LuckyCharms]

21. It is unless the video was altered. n/t

[yonder]

26. It appears so, unfortunately.

And he couldn't even get his own fat ass out of the chair to fetch the lie himself.

[LuckyCharms]

23. The dumb ass couldn't even be bothered to have someone photoshop

the original cone.

[cwydro]

24. No words.

This person must be the most insecure human in history.

Scary.

[SammyWinstonJack]

83. He's very insecure. That is obvious.

[brooklynite]

25. 18 U.S. Code 2074. 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.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 795; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

[StevieM]

93. This is what the media should be talking about.

But, of course, they won't.

[Champp]

28. Republican lies are legion

The party of lies

[Gothmog]

29. From the Hoarse Whisperer

Link to tweet

[dem4decades]

30. Someone did it for him. He doesn't know where the States are.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

31. Pictures. Lots of pictures. And crayons.

.............

[Thomas Hurt]

32. the dumb sumbitch doesn't know the difference between Alabama and Georgia.

[5X]

33. he didn't extend it fur enuf, we all here in okielahoma were stocking up on ammo, just in case. n/t

[Duppers]

55. 😂

[mnhtnbb]

76. But do you have enough nukes?

[5X]

77. they ran out at wally world,

this was in the old days when they still sold ammo.

[BHDem53]

35. Best meteorologist ever!

[yaesu]

36. reason to impeach #306, so, what's the hold up? nt

[littlemissmartypants]

37. And the tool sitting next to him just lost all credibility by default.

He's guilty by association and our "acting" Homeland Security Director Kevin Kealoha McAleenan. He clearly has been neutered.

Good luck getting your manhood back Kev.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McAleenan

[BlueMississippi]

38. This is beyond absurd

It is downright sociopathic.

[The Genealogist]

40. A 4 year old would be embarrassed about such a pathetic attempt to save face.

Literally, this is something a young child would do, while knowing it was wrong and a poor attempt to cover up their error. I'm sure all the bobble heads over at FAUX just gushed over it. And damn, is hat the extent of his ability to draw?

[Marcuse]

41. Another count of impeachment.

[bucolic_frolic]

45. Trump takes pride in doctoring the truth and blaming others for "fake news"

He's been consistent. This is a war for credibility. Typical of corporate guy. The biggest liar is always accusing others of lying.

[Glimmer of Hope]

46. Good gawd.

[rocktivity]

48. Was President Twitter Tantrum planning to send Alabama federal aid

that they really don't qualify for?


rocktivity

[spanone]

50. Time for the 25th Amendment. Straight jacket / Rubber Room

[woodsprite]

52. He committed another crime. What's new and who's left that has enough balls to do anything about it?

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.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2074

[liberal N proud]

53. trump has never taken responsibility

[Hekate]

54. Stalinesque

[brush]

56. Poor dummy. Who does he think he's fooling with that bullshit, altered map?

This imposter president's shit show gets more ridiculous everyday.

Poor us.

[moonscape]

78. His dummy lemmings n/t

[PoliticAverse]

60. "with a sharpie to" - I guess they took away his crayons. n/t

[forgotmylogin]

70. The traitor-tot loves sharpies.

He regularly signs his name with markers because he likes his strokes to have weight and heft.

He also doesn't like to write, but has no problem marking up others work, and the broad line of a sharpie marker makes his pithy comments stand out. Thickest line on the page, and probably in history! Also, in his mind I'm sure, marking a document like a teacher basically serves to jump in front of any potential significance it has like a picket line in front of a store.

Trump’s love affair with the Sharpie began long before his ambition to be in the White House. Before he became president he would often scrawl across newspaper articles as a way of communicating. For example, in 1999, he sent Rudy Giuliani a New York Times interview with himself. Scrawled across the print copy, which included praise for Giuliani, was Trump’s Sharpie addition: “Rudy, you’re the greatest, see you soon”.

Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, once memorably described Trump as a in a piece published more than three decades ago. He wrote in 2015 that ever since Trump had sent him photos of himself and “on all of them he has circled his hand in gold Sharpie in a valiant effort to highlight the length of his fingers”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/18/donald-trump-marker-pen-sharpie-russia-putin-scandal

'Make it look rich': Trump told Sharpie to create a custom pen for him to sign important documents
businessinsider.com/trump-...

[DinahMoeHum]

61. ". . .stupidest act of narcissism to date. . ." - Rep Don Beyer, D(VA)

Link to tweet

The competition is fierce but we may have just witnessed Trump's stupidest act of narcissism to date.

I hope national and regional weather professionals will be able to correct the disinformation coming from the President of the United States before it does too much harm.

[malaise]

62. Imagine faking scientific information about a matter of life and death

to cover your lying bullshit.
If this isn't grounds for impeachment I give up

[renate]

64. This is actually incredibly serious

The President of the United States

Let's say that again:

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, the second most powerful man in the world, is not even trying to hide the fact that he is brazenly lying in front of the entire world in order to cover up a tiny (relatively speaking) mistake he made in a damn tweet.

This isn't funny. It's pathetic, but it's not funny. His illness is on full display and absolutely undeniable, he could and would start a war to save face if he felt he needed to (maybe to cover up his tweeting of that top secret picture from Iran), and the GOP is pretending everything is fine.

[BruceWane]

65. Seems appropriate

Reminds me of a first grader changing an "F" to an "A".

With the wrong color pen.

So, yeah, not really surprised.

[jcgoldie]

66. pretty sure he was trying to draw a penis

What a complete oaf.

[Duppers]

69. The competition is fierce but we may have just witnessed Trump's stupidest act of narcissism to date

"The competition is fierce but we may have just witnessed Trump's stupidest act of narcissism to date."

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) nailed President Donald Trump for his desperate attempt to avoid the humiliation of not knowing which state was Alabama.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/stupidest-act-of-narcissism-to-date-congressman-nails-trump-for-desperate-hurricane-dorian-map/

[dlk]

71. Every Day, Trump Finds a Way to Embarrass & Humiliate the US with his Vast Ignorance

It’s a gift.

[throwthe_shoe]

72. like i have said before....

to call this shit pile a moron would lower the bar for a real moron... he should stick that sharpie up his ass

[Ilsa]

73. Here's spaghetti models from August 26th:

https://www.tcpalm.com/story/weather/hurricanes/2019/08/26/tropical-storm-dorian-track-storms-path-and-spaghetti-models/2121067001/

Three maps are presented.

[karin_sj]

74. Holy crap!

This is unbelievable!

[amuse bouche]

75. There is nothing he won't lie about

Such a pathetic sick pig

[Maggiemayhem]

79. Dennis!

Miss you on DK

[Paladin]

80. Yet another action for which he ought to be imprisoned for life.

It's getting to be a very long list.

[Joe941]

81. tRump and a crayon... that about says it all.

[royable]

82. This is disturbing on so many levels.

Not categories, levels. There are only four categories.

[LudwigPastorius]

85. OK, here's what I don't get.

Why did not ONE of those fucking reporters in the room ask out loud, hey, what's that big black line over Alabama that someone obviously drew on the map?

I don't care if it's rude to interrupt the president. I don't care that your White House press pass might get revoked.

Blatant, vain, idiotic mendacity of this type MUST be called out, or you lose the right to call yourself a reporter, journalist, or correspondent forever.

[Ms. Toad]

105. They did.

Link to tweet

[procon]

87. Well, at least he didn't use crayons to draw

the lines.

[klook]

88. Trump orders all new dictionaries to include the word "covfefe"

unironically.

[Evolve Dammit]

90. He can't keep up with all his own lies at this point. Pathetic.

[czarjak]

91. Smarter than the meteorologists....

Big League

[ehrnst]

92. A politician who can't admit when he's wrong is no kind of a leader. (nt)

[Stuart G]

96. Trump has used an altered map, and given us proof that he should be impeached.

If this is true, (a number of sources have reported this) then Trump has impeached himself.
Here is proof that he is not capable of holding this job. If word gets out that he drew the black line, or ordered it to be drawn, then it is clear to everyone, even Republicans, what the truth is. While it isn't the biggest deal, it is the proof that is needed, that Trump is not telling the truth about something very important...
...Yes, impeachable offense to present a map that lies and is altered about where the hurricane is headed.

Lying about something this important, is impeachable offense. Now what we need is proof that Trump ordered it. When that comes out, he is done.

[Midnightwalk]

98. Didn't Dylan cover this?

You don’t need to be a weatherman to fake which way the wind blows?

[Blue Owl]

99. Tell us again how you've never heard of a Cat. 5 hurricane, Dr. Science!

[Duppers]

100. Photoshop idea: change FL to AL

Would he even know the difference?
He can't find anything on a map anyway.

[Historic NY]

101. From his actual briefing

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/photos-president-donald-j-trumps-fema-briefing-hurricane-dorian/]

[philly_bob]

103. Check this link. No sharpie line drawn in map photo from briefing.

In other words, there either was no sharpie line on one chart -- or, in a third level of duplicity, they replaced the altered map with the real map on the whitehouse.gov website.

https://imgur.com/a/800igez

He thinks we are idiots!

[colsohlibgal]

104. Infantile

This is like a 2nd grader changing his report card thinking her/his parents won’t notice. Then when they do notice lie about it.

My guess is this map fudging will never be pointed out on Fox “News”.

Would love to see this lying cheating criminal hauled off to Prison the minute Liz or Joe or Kamala take office. Not only is he a crook and serial liar he is terminally unlikeable, a waste of space and oxygen.

[In It to Win It]

106. Drinking game: Shot for each time you say...

"What in the actual fuck" during the Trump presidency from this day going forward.