Sharpiegate
- On This Day In The Trump Administration
- Sep 3, 2024
- 1 min read
September 4: On This Day In 2019
This is one of those days when Donald Trump again revealed his true character by doing something remarkably stupid. It encapsulates all that’s wrong with this man. The story features mistakes, lies, sloppiness, endangering his countrymen, and inventing a new lie to coverup his earlier ones. And, most importantly, it reveals how stupid he thinks Americans really are.
And it makes one think…is THIS the best person America can put in the White House?
Three days ago we told you about Trump’s handling of Hurricane Dorian. OTDI 2019, it got worse.
You’ve seen this damning photo, issued by the White House. It’ll probably go on his tombstone.
Trump needed to pretend that NOAA actually HAD predicted Dorian could reach Alabama. So he showed this to the press corps. Notice the printed cone of uncertainty in white around Florida; that’s how NOAA does their forecasts. Then notice that weird black circle drawn in ink over southern Alabama. Made with a Sharpie. The kind Trump uses every day himself.
Trump denied he had scribbled in that black line with a Sharpie himself.
But everybody knows he did.
And yet, 74,000,000 Americans still voted for him to win re-election.
Outnumbering Trump’s fans at the polls is a challenging task.
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