Trump’s Alabama hurricane claim stops being a one-off and starts looking like a fever dream with a federal seal
The Alabama hurricane lie kept snowballing on September 2 as officials and Trump allies tried to keep the president’s incorrect claim from hardening into a full-blown public farce. What began as a bad tweet had already forced repeated cleanup work from weather agencies, and the White House was now dealing with the unmistakable reality that Trump had turned a forecast error into a credibility problem. The longer he doubled down, the more the episode looked less like a mistake and more like a deliberate refusal to admit reality.
First recorded Sep 2, 2019·Meaningfully updated Sep 2, 2019
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Trump’s Alabama hurricane claim stops being a one-off and starts looking like a fever dream with a federal seal
The Alabama hurricane lie kept snowballing on September 2 as officials and Trump allies tried to keep the president’s incorrect claim from hardening into a full-blown public farce. What began as a bad tweet had already forced repeated cleanup work from weather agencies, and the White House was now dealing with the unmistakable reality that Trump had turned a forecast error into a credibility problem. The longer he doubled down, the more the episode looked less like a mistake and more like a del…
The Alabama hurricane lie kept snowballing on September 2 as officials and Trump allies tried to keep the president’s incorrect claim from hardening into a full-blown public farce. What began as a bad tweet had already forced repeated cleanup work from weather agencies, and the White House was now dealing with the unmistakable reality that Trump had turned a forecast error into a credibility problem. The longer he d…
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