President Trump displayed an outdated and falsely altered National Hurricane Center forecast map on Wednesday during a public briefing on Hurricane Dorian’s threat to the Carolinas over the next two days.
at 11:00 AM EDT on Thursday, August 29, a long-outdated forecast that doesn’t reflect the threat posed to the southeastern coast this week.
President Trump holds up an altered NHC forecast map, falsely extending the cone of uncertainty toward the Florida Panhandle and parts of Alabama and Georgia.The marker-assisted alteration to the map extended the forecast’s cone of uncertainty to include the Florida Panhandle and the southern corners of Alabama and Georgia.
President Trump talked to reporters about the current forecast while holding up the map, telling news cameras: “But that was the original chart. And you see it was going to hit not only Florida but Georgia. It could’ve, it was going toward the Gulf. That was what we, what was originally projected. And it took a right turn.”
Hurricane warnings are in effect for coastal sections of South Carolina and North Carolina ahead of Hurricane Dorian’s expected close brush with the coast on Thursday and Friday. Despite the risk to these two southeastern states in the coming days, the president only tangentially mentioned the threat to the Carolinas in the video posted to the White House’s
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