Sweet baby Jesus as a Hurricane Hunter crewman, no topic exists upon this earth in which Trump doesn’t believe he is the final authority as the one who understands the situation more than anyone else.

By way of Stephanie Grisham’s new book, “I’ll Take Your Questions Now,” as reviewed by the Washington Post, we finally have an explanation as to how Sharpie Gate came about to threaten Alabama with a big “wet” hurricane (Trump’s words, “very wet,” he is the expert). This assertion came about despite the fact that people who have doctorates on the subject in order to save lives and property by way of accurate forecasts, upon which we all rely.

All forecasts involve science, these forecasts involve the most sophisticated science. Trump rejects science.

From the Washington Post:

She offers a new interpretation of the notorious September 2019 incident known as Sharpiegate. It apparently all began with Trump refusing to believe a report that Hurricane Dorian had altered its course and was no longer projected to strike Alabama. To make his point, Grisham writes, the president grabbed a Sharpie during a staff meeting and drew on a weather map, altering the hurricane’s course to show it slamming into the state.

Then someone ushered the media into the room, forgetting that the doctored map was still on display. Trump kept pointing at the map as he spoke to reporters, making it seem like he was intentionally misleading them.

Nearly everyone knows that Hurricane Hunter aircraft fly into those hurricanes to obtain the most accurate current information. Very few know that those planes fly between 500 – 10,000 ft off the water. They are “in” the hurricane, risking their lives to help save our lives. With one stroke of a pen, Donald Trump sent a message to thousands of people in Alabama that they may or may not have known was bullsh*t.

It is utterly humiliating that the explanation above makes perfect sense. Trump knows, he is the big rich guy, scientists are just middling scientists.

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