WaPo: "It was Trump who used a black Sharpie to mark up an official NOAA map..."

[Miles Archer]

It was Trump who used a black Sharpie to mark up an official National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration map, which he displayed during an Oval Office briefing on Wednesday, according to a White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

“No one else writes like that on a map with a black Sharpie,” the official said of the map, which added Alabama into the hurricane’s potential pathway inside the loop of the marker.

Several White House officials argued that media coverage of the Alabama issue has been unfair to Trump, but one senior administration official said that “as long as it’s in the news, he is not going to drop it.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/what-i-said-was-accurate-trump-stays-fixated-on-his-alabama-error-as-hurricane-pounds-the-carolinas/2019/09/05/32597606-cfe7-11e9-8c1c-7c8ee785b855_story.html

[Takket]

1. The Onion could basically write the exact same article.

[HipChick]

2. Shocked I tell you..

NOT!!

[crazytown]

16. Shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you

[calimary]

19. This is my husband's absolute favorite.

He laughed out loud at them all. Howled at this one, though.

[UniteFightBack]

3. Yup one of the reporters on Don Lemon exposing rumps lies. nt

[Blue Owl]

4. The moving mini-hand of tRump

n/t

[spanone]

5. Of course it was. No other living human being would do such an ignorant thing and defend it for days

it's 1000% abnormal

[Miles Archer]

7. True, but I'll bet the real explanation is...

...that he "couldn't trust anyone else to do it right."

Seriously...we know that there are probably Photoshoppers in his realm who could have done a convincing "fake" job, until it was presented side-by-side with the real map. Why didn't that happen?

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. I'm shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED!

Not really.

[Beartracks]

8. i still don't get it: why did he insist on adding Alabama to begin with?

I mean, I know he never, ever, ever admits to being wrong or mistaken, but he seems REALLY adamant that Alabama was in Dorian's path even though it clearly never was.

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[pnwmom]

11. Probably he got it mixed up with Bahamas. Bahamas, Alabama, see? All those a's and b's are confusing

[argyl]

24. That's probably what happened. Seriously.

Being too bullheaded and stupid to admit a mistake is all him.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. c'mon folks. a BLACK Sharpie? Obama strikes again!

Oh, for the days when we had a real President and real hurricane maps.

[gratuitous]

10. Such. A. Child.

Petty. Stubborn.

[BlueStater]

12. Someone like this should not be POTUS.

It's fucking obvious to anyone with a brain, yet no one does anything about it.

[moondust]

13. "I don't know. I don't know. I don't know."

What Trump said when asked by reporters how the Sharpie marker ended up on the printed map.

http://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/05/hurricane-dorian-sharpie-trump-1482839

You mean he lied?

[HipChick]

18. Why isn't he a better liar..

He's been lying all his life...he should be a better liar by now...

[SergeStorms]

21. A successful liar....

needs a fantastic memory to remember all of his lies. Trump can't remember who his children are.

[CentralMass]

14. He is batshit crazy.

[Quixote1818]

15. Someone wake the world up from this fucking nightmare! nt

[LiberalFighter]

17. Even if it wasn't Trump using the Sharpie...

he would had either given the Sharpie to someone to do it or given permission to use it. Nobody would dare do otherwise.

[gordianot]

20. I can hear it now "get someone I do not know so I can deny the incident.

That person would then self destruct like the old Mission Impossible tapes. Except Trump tells so many lies what is one more?

[SergeStorms]

22. I guess Trump thinks...

the rest of the country is as stupid as him. His supporters certainly are, and I guess that's who he's playing to. He considers his supporters to be the only true Americans. People who didn't vote for him are "fake Americans".

[JohnnyRingo]

23. A third of the country really is that stupid.

I'm sure I have friends who would insist that the hurricane was going to hit Alabama and that NOAH drew that extension.

I don't know the details because I don't watch Hannity.