Trump Slams ABC for Reporting His Mistaken Statement that Dorian Could Affect Alabama
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President Donald Trump lashed out at ABC on Monday evening for daring to report on his inaccurate statement on Hurricane Dorian. Most amazing of all is that the president appears to
suggest his mistaken statement wasn’t really mistaken even though he was very publicly corrected by the National Weather Service.
Trump tweeted Sunday that “in addition to Florida – South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated.” That immediately led to questions because no one had mentioned any risk for Alabama. But this wasn’t an isolated mistake. Trump also told reporters at the White House that “Alabama is going to get a piece of it, looks like.”
The statement led to such confusion that 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.
Trump apparently wasn’t happy, though, that ABC News mentioned the issue, and he blasted the network for
“a phony hurricane report by lightweight reporter” Jonathan Karl. Trump then went on to say that his statement that “even Alabama could possibly come into play … WAS true.” The president added that “under certain original scenarios, it was in fact correct that Alabama could have received some ‘hurt’.” In the end, the good thing to remember is that it is “always good to be prepared!”
Trump also said earlier he had never heard of a Category 5 hurricane. This is the fourth one since his presidency- and he also said he had never heard of a Category 5 hurricane each of those times.
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I never even knew a Category 5 existed," he said on September 14, 2017, just days after
Hurricane Irma — a Category 5 storm that battered parts of the Caribbean islands before weakening to a Category 4 hurricane when it made landfall in the Florida Keys.
Later in September,
Hurricane Maria devastated parts of Dominica, the US Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. The Category 5 storm weakened to a Category 4 when it hit Puerto Rico. Officials there eventually linked the storm to nearly 3,000 deaths, and the US territory is still recovering from the impacts of the natural disaster.
"So we've never seen it," Trump said on September 26, 2017, about Maria's impact. "It actually touched down as a Category 5. People have never seen anything like that."
In October 2017, Trump reiterated claims that Category 5 storms were inconceivable, saying
"nobody has ever heard of a 5 hitting land."
And in May of this year, months after Category 5
Hurricane Michael ravaged the Florida Panhandle, Trump told the crowd at a campaign rally in Panama City Beach, Florida,
that he had "never heard about Category 5s before."
"A Category 5 is big stuff," he said.
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