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riversedge

(69,722 posts)
Fri Sep 6, 2019, 03:39 PM Sep 2019

Washington Post: Trump was the one who altered Dorian trajectory map with Sharpie

Source: Cnn




Updated 11:11 AM ET, Fri September 6, 2019


Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump was the one who used a black Sharpie marker to alter an official National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration map to include Alabama in Hurricane Dorian's trajectory during an Oval Office presentation earlier this week, The Washington Post reported.

"No one else writes like that on a map with a black Sharpie," a White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity told the Post.

Since Sunday, Trump has aggressively defended his false claim that Hurricane Dorian was likely to hit Alabama, even after the National Weather Service stressed that "no impacts from Hurricane Dorian will be felt across Alabama."

During an Oval Office briefing on Wednesday, Trump claimed that the marked-up NOAA map was the original forecast, although a similar image released from the White House last week did not include perimeters to show that Alabama would be affected.

Earlier this week, a source familiar with the briefing did not deny to CNN that Trump had drawn the black line on the map.
"I'm not going to get into that," the source said on Wednesday, but confirmed the line had been added during the storm briefing Wednesday, before the press entered the Oval Office........................................

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/06/politics/trump-sharpie-hurricane-dorian-alabama/index.html



yup!

Related:

Anatomy of a fiasco: A detailed timeline of Trump's Alabama map meltdown


https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/06/politics/fact-check-timeline-of-trumps-alabama-dorian-map-fiasco/index.html
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Washington Post: Trump was the one who altered Dorian trajectory map with Sharpie (Original Post) riversedge Sep 2019 OP
Was there really any doubt? I can't believe that even Trump is still tweeting about this. Arkansas Granny Sep 2019 #1
When asked by a reporter if he had drawn the circle dixiegrrrrl Sep 2019 #13
I seriously didn't think Mr.Bill Sep 2019 #2
Or locate the United States on a map. John Fante Sep 2019 #4
He probably called Jeff Sessions to find out where Alabama was.(nt) thesquanderer Sep 2019 #7
...he traced the bottom of his cup on his extra large Diet Coke from McDonalds... EarthFirst Sep 2019 #12
Oh. I. Am. Shocked. Maeve Sep 2019 #3
He is half nuts extvbroadcaster Sep 2019 #5
I don't know about having several disorders... GB_RN Sep 2019 #14
Trump in the Oval Office with a Sharpie. Midnight Writer Sep 2019 #6
Oh boy...now he's really going to go with the nuking of hurricanes idea. C Moon Sep 2019 #8
But here is the sad part - BumRushDaShow Sep 2019 #9
Barry Myers, at ProPublica: mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2019 #15
He and his brother AccuWeather founder Dr. Joel Myers BumRushDaShow Sep 2019 #16
Wish the Rebl2 Sep 2019 #10
No. The problem is that this administration is carefully and deliberately neutering the scientists BumRushDaShow Sep 2019 #11

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
13. When asked by a reporter if he had drawn the circle
Sat Sep 7, 2019, 12:21 AM
Sep 2019

trump said "I don't know" 3 times.

Which is great 25th Amendment evidence of his inability to remember things he has done.

We have got to stop calling his confusion and indecision and ludicrous claims as lies, because they also neatly describe a disturbed mental process, which point to an Amendment 25 criteria.

Thing is, it is the Vice-President who can declare the President is unfit.
and trump has been unhappy with Pence, come to find out, so it might behoove Pence to actually do the Amendment in a power grab.

extvbroadcaster

(343 posts)
5. He is half nuts
Fri Sep 6, 2019, 04:35 PM
Sep 2019

He's got multiple personality disorders. Won't admit mistakes, fixates on proving himself being right, touch of dementia too. It's all fun and games at the rallies, but when the nation needs leadership we have a President that is out to lunch. Good job, Trump voters!

GB_RN

(2,267 posts)
14. I don't know about having several disorders...
Sat Sep 7, 2019, 11:11 AM
Sep 2019

But having been married to a woman with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, I can say for sure that he's got all the signs of a malignant narcissist. He's got a full on, raging case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, for sure. Given the degradation of his language skills over the years, you can likely add in dementia of some kind (Alzheimer's, vascular or Lewey Body).

BumRushDaShow

(127,310 posts)
9. But here is the sad part -
Fri Sep 6, 2019, 06:04 PM
Sep 2019

(someone on my weather forum posted the statement image but here is the tweet) -



TEXT
NOAA Communications

@NOAAComms

NOAA Statementhttps://www.noaa.gov/news/statement-from-noaa
View image on Twitter
2
5:50 PM - Sep 6, 2019




Link to statement with embedded clickable link - https://www.noaa.gov/news/statement-from-noaa

That link goes to the series of their "wind probabilities" cones for the storm - https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2019/DORIAN_graphics.php?product=wind_probs_34_F120

And the referenced ones had nothing to do with the situation at the time of the press conference.

mahatmakanejeeves

(56,897 posts)
15. Barry Myers, at ProPublica:
Sat Sep 7, 2019, 02:31 PM
Sep 2019
Trump Town > Commerce > Barry Lee Myers

Barry Lee Myers AWAITING SENATE CONFIRMATION
Commerce

Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Financial Disclosure »

Former Positions Outside Government
AccuWeather Acqusition Sub, Inc. CEO, Secretary, Director
AccuWeather Canada, Inc. CEO, Secretary, Director
AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions, LLC Manager
AccuWeather Holdco, Inc. CEO, Secretary, Director
AccuWeather International, LLC Manager
AccuWeather Intl., LLC Manager
AccuWeather Sales and Service, LLC Manager
AccuWeather, Inc. Currently -- CEO, Secretary, Director (AccuWeather, Inc. was incorporated in 1975. Prior to that, it was a solely owned proprietorship. It adopted the trade name AccuWeather in 1971. Throughout my time at AccuWeather, Inc., I have held various positions such as: General Counsel, Executive Vice President, and Chief Legal Officer. I was an independent self-employed sole proprietorship business serving as a contracted executive to AccuWeather, Inc. until January 2014 when I became an employee.)
American Weather and Climate Industry Association Board Member (I became a Board Member in the mid-1990s; the start date of 1/1995 is an estimate.)
Family Trust Trustee
MWX Services, Inc. Director (Dissolved as of 8.4.17)
Mirror Management One, LLC Manager
Mirror Management Two, LLC Manager
Perfect Date, Inc. CEO, Secretary, Director (Dissolved as of 6.9.17)
Sky Motion Research, ULC CEO, Secretary, Director
Westside Village I LLC Consultant (The start date listed is an estimate.)

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AccuWeather, Inc. CEO
Westside Village I LLC Legal and Business Consulting

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BumRushDaShow

(127,310 posts)
16. He and his brother AccuWeather founder Dr. Joel Myers
Sat Sep 7, 2019, 02:49 PM
Sep 2019

are from here in Philly so they are well known around these parts. IMHO what Barry is doing is based on a long long time beef and he wants revenge. Childish.

Rebl2

(13,309 posts)
10. Wish the
Fri Sep 6, 2019, 06:21 PM
Sep 2019

media would quit focusing on this. There are more important things to talk about. He keeps talking about it to distract us from the evil things he is doing.

BumRushDaShow

(127,310 posts)
11. No. The problem is that this administration is carefully and deliberately neutering the scientists
Fri Sep 6, 2019, 06:47 PM
Sep 2019

and the value of science. From what I gather from my weather forum, there are meteorologists raging like mad right now in their various discussion venues. They have done it with the climatologists and are now doing it with the meteorologists.

This sort of thing IS EVIL. It cannot be allowed to continue without pushback. It's not a "distraction" to ensure the record is corrected.

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