What is the deal with Trump and Alabama?

[CTyankee]

I don't understand. What did I miss?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. He doesn't care about Alabama. He misunderstood an early FEMA briefing

as meaning AL would be hit hard by the hurricane, but when the NWS issued a correction he had a hissy fit, then altered a weather map with a Sharpie marker. What's going on is that he can't stand to be wrong.

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. He has said he sees admitting a mistake is a sign of weakness.

He could have said the hurricane was going to devastate Minneapolis, and then would have done everything he could do, including get some government employee to make up a bullshit story, to make him look like he was right.

He is simply incapable of admitting he has made a mistake. As one commentator said in the last couple days, you can count on one had the number of times he has publicly admitted he was wrong about something.

I've noticed this allows him to lie about the most inane and trivial things.

[CTyankee]

3. Oh, yeah, that...I thought there was something else before that. That he had some idee fixe

with Alabama (pardon my French) for another reason...

[kimbutgar]

4. Maybe it's the only place he can go and not experience protesters, and diaper baby balloons

And if I remember he has the highest approval rating there.

[CTyankee]

5. Kind of his heaven on earth...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. It's possible that he *wanted* the hurricane to hit or at least affect AL

because he wanted to be a hero to a state that already likes him.

[Pachamama]

6. Maybe he wanted to demonstrate as the "Chosen One" that he prayed away the hurricane?

[Cousin Dupree]

7. Wasn't the Bowling Green Massacre there?

[keithbvadu2]

9. They love New Yorker Trump who calls them dumb southerners.