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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Mon Sep 2, 2019, 09:54 AM Sep 2019

Trump: "I never heard of a category 5 hurricane"

“I’m not sure that I’ve ever even heard of a Category Five,” Trump said during a televised briefing at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Washington.
as Hurricane Dorian slammed the Bahamas on Sunday and headed for the U.S. East Coast, hours after being updated to a Category Five storm.

“I’ve seen some Category Fours, you don’t even see them that much,” he said.
“But a Category Five is something that, I don’t know that I’ve ever even heard the term.”

Three Category 5 hurricanes have hit the mainland U.S. or U.S. territories, including Puerto Rico, since Trump was inaugurated: Irma and Maria in 2017, and Michael in 2018.

Trump made a similar comment in 2017, saying of Hurricane Irma at the White House Historical Association dinner that “I never even knew a Category 5 existed.”

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-helicopters-golf-course-staying-163116086.html

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SharonAnn

(13,772 posts)
12. Cognitive decline. Can't take in, understand, or retain new information.
Mon Sep 2, 2019, 12:14 PM
Sep 2019

The brain stops encoding most new information and forming memories of that information.

It's a known characteristic of diseases like Alzheimer's and other cognitive decline diseases.

JHB

(37,158 posts)
4. A man with coastal properittes in Florida doesn't know enough about hurricanes...
Mon Sep 2, 2019, 10:01 AM
Sep 2019

...to have heard of Category 5s that hit.

Hope the architects he hired to build there had.

Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts)
5. Well this is a man who had no idea people born in Puerto Rico are United States citizens
Mon Sep 2, 2019, 10:06 AM
Sep 2019

until it was hit by a hurricane and thinks Finland rakes it's forests.

To say he's intellectually lazy would be a gross understatement.

no_hypocrisy

(46,067 posts)
7. I did something like that once.
Mon Sep 2, 2019, 10:09 AM
Sep 2019

I was 15 or 16 and touring Monticello for the first time. The tour guide referenced that Jefferson was on the two-dollar bill.

Like an uninformed idiot (OK, I've owned it), I exclaimed there was no such thing as a two-dollar bill.

Now decades later, having viewed and held several two-dollar bills, I cringe at the Monticello memory.

BUT at least I learned to shut up if you're ignorant.

Sapient Donkey

(1,568 posts)
13. How is it possible for someone to know of cat 5 hurricanes?
Mon Sep 2, 2019, 01:50 PM
Sep 2019

He must not pay attention to anything that hears and has zero comprehension of the world around him.

Brainfodder

(6,423 posts)
14. Possible Ground Hog Day quality dementia?
Mon Sep 2, 2019, 01:54 PM
Sep 2019


Call out his ignorance and questionable ability/stability to serve as POTUS?

Overdue for another health evaluation?

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