After drawing criticism for inaccurately warning that Alabama could get hit by Hurricane Dorian, President Trump held up a map that appeared to have a line drawn on it in black making it seem as if he had been right all along.
After drawing criticism for inaccurately warning over the weekend that Alabama could get hit by Hurricane Dorian -- even after government meteorologists disputed that was the case -- President Donald Trump on Wednesday held up a map that appeared to have a line drawn on it in black making it seem as if he had been right all along.
But the map he displayed had one addition not on the one disseminated by the National Hurricane Center: what appeared to be a drawn-on semicircle appended to the"cone of uncertainty" showing the hurricane's potential projected impact -- extending the cone into Alabama. Hours after the Wednesday Dorian briefing, at a different event in the afternoon, Trump later denied knowing how or why the map had been altered when asked if he could explain how the change was made.
Trump cut off the reporter and said,"I don't know. I don't know. I don't know." He also said the map had been from three or four days before, when it had actually been issued six days earlier.
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