Wednesday, September 4, 2019

The Alabama loop

As reported by Axios and Gizmodo: Donald Trump displayed a doctored map to support his false claim that Alabama is in the path of Hurricane Dorian. A black (Sharpie-made?) loop reaching into Alabama has been added to the legitimate map. In the spirit of Nineteen Eighty-Four: “Hurricane Dorian has always been at war with Alabama.”

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September 5: Here’s the pre-Sharpie map.

comments: 2

Pete said...

He’ll undoubtedly say he knows more about meteorology than anybody, unlike those elitist weathermen, some of whom even work for fake news CNN.

Michael Leddy said...

Now he’s announced on Twitter that he accepts ”the Fake News apologies.”