Trump Makes Counterterrorism Advisor Issue Statement Defending His Wrong Alabama Hurricane Forecast

X Facebook Email Flipboard Pinterest Print Reddit

Trump continues to use the power of the federal government to insist that he was right about his inaccurate forecast that Hurricane Dorian would hit Alabama.

Here is the statement from counterterrorism advisor Rear Admiral Peter J. Brown:

As #DorianSC batters South Carolina, Trump has a counter-terrorism official release a statement defending his fake Alabama forecast. pic.twitter.com/MFRcDZ4GXE

— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) September 5, 2019

Trump isn’t going to let this go.

He spent his day on Thursday issuing tweets, that have grown progressively more insane, defending his false claim that Hurricane Dorian was going to hit Alabama. Any other president would have admitted their error and moved on. No one would have cared, because everyone in the country is focused on where the hurricane is actually doing damage in the Carolinas.

One gets the sense that if Trump drop a nuke on Dorian and reroute it to Alabama, he would do so in order to proclaim that he was right all along.

Trump’s small mind is incapable of focusing on big pictures. Donald Trump has no interested in the presidency or doing his job. His presidency has been years of pointless cruelty, pain, destruction, and failure.

The statement that was issued by Rear Admiral Brown was a misuse of the presidency. Executive powers don’t exist in the Constitution so that they can be used to create cover stories for presidential mistakes.

The bigger picture isn’t that Trump keeps beating the dead horse of the Dorian Alabama forecast, but that he is willing to abuse the power of his office to soothe his fragile ego.

For more discussion about this story join our Rachel Maddow and MSNBC group.

Follow Jason Easley on Facebook

Author
Recent Posts

Follow Me

Jason Easley

Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.

Awards and Professional Memberships

Member of the Society of Professional Journalists and The American Political Science Association

Follow Me