Trump White House Had Its Revenge on CNN over Its Hurricane Dorian Map Controversy
President Trump has once again elicited the ‘gotcha’ reaction from the liberal news media. He apparently used an old map projection for Hurricane Dorian which has utterly devastated the Bahamas but blessedly changed course, with Florida avoiding a direct hit. It’s now barreling up the eastern seaborne, hugging the coastline but not making landfall. It’s now a category two storm. Anyways, here is the Associated Press as to why we’re talking about Dorian, Trump, and maps:
During an Oval Office briefing Wednesday, Trump displayed a map of the National Hurricane Center forecast for last Thursday that showed Dorian could track over Florida. The map he displayed included what appeared to be a hand-drawn half-circle that extended the cone of uncertainty over a swath of Alabama.
Trump had raised eyebrows and drawn an emphatic fact check from the National Weather Service on Sunday when he tweeted that Alabama, along with the Carolinas and Georgia, “will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated.”
This was the originally projected path of the Hurricane in its early stages. As you can see, almost all models predicted it to go through Florida also hitting Georgia and Alabama. I accept the Fake News apologies! pic.twitter.com/0uCT0Qvyo6
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2019
Alabama was going to be hit or grazed, and then Hurricane Dorian took a different path (up along the East Coast). The Fake News knows this very well. That’s why they’re the Fake News!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2019
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But of course, CNN had to get in on the action. The noted anti-Trump network harped on the map the president had used but then was served a piping hot cup of shut the hell up when they couldn’t even point to where Alabama is on the map. Sorry, Alabamans—you’re now Mississippians now.
CNN chyron: pic.twitter.com/1qseHDvDJP
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) September 5, 2019
Hi @CNN, I know you guys are busy analyzing lines on a map, but perhaps you use your time to study up on U.S. geography? pic.twitter.com/kVgifHfPK4
— Stephanie Grisham (@PressSec) September 5, 2019
Hi @CNN, I know you guys are busy analyzing lines on a map, but perhaps you use your time to study up on U.S. geography? pic.twitter.com/kVgifHfPK4
— Stephanie Grisham (@PressSec) September 5, 2019
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