Hurricane „Dorian“ is also causing a stir in the White House: US President Donald Trump yesterday revealed at a press conference an apparently retroactively modified map of the course of the Atlantic storm that threatens the US East Coast.
On the billboard that Trump held up to journalists in the Oval Office, the path of the devastating hurricane originally predicted by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) was drawn. But with a black felt-tip pen, the cone had been widened into the state of Alabama.
When the president was approached a few hours later on how the supplement came, he said, „I do not know. I do not know. „But he stuck to his version, stressing that earlier calculations had predicted that“ Dorian „could also hit the state west of Florida.
Weather service contradicted
On Sunday, Trump had falsely spread on Twitter, Alabama was threatened next to the states of Florida, Georgia and North and South Carolina also. A short time later, however, the US weather service made it clear in a tweet: „Alabama will not feel any effects from ‚Dorian‘.“ The storm was too far east.Last night, Trump tweeted a map of the South Florida Water Management Office, dated 28th August, containing several predictive models, some of them affecting Alabama. At the foot of the card, however, was the note: „This graphic is an addition and does not replace the information of the NHC. If anything on this card confuses you, ignore the whole product.
„For Trump, however, the proof that he was right: „I accept the apologies of the Fake News,“ he wrote.
