Trump doesn't think he's 'ever even heard of a Category 5' hurricane. Four such storms have threaten
Source: cnn.com
Trump doesn't think he's 'ever even heard of a Category 5' hurricane. Four such storms have threatened the US since he took office
Updated 8:14 AM ET, Mon September 2, 2019
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump said Sunday that he's "not sure that (he's) ever even heard of a Category 5" hurricane, despite four such storms -- including Hurricane Dorian -- having threatened the US since he took office.
"We don't even know what's coming at us. All we know is it's possibly the biggest. I have -- I'm not sure that I've ever even heard of a Category 5. I knew it existed. And I've seen some Category 4's -- you don't even see them that much," Trump said at a briefing with officials at FEMA's headquarters in Washington, DC.
"But a Category 5 is something that -- I don't know that I've ever even heard the term other than I know it's there. That's the ultimate, and that's what we have unfortunately," he added, in reference to Hurricane Dorian.
The comments from the President came just before Dorian, a dangerous Category 5 storm, made landfall on the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas. The storm is the most recent of four Category 5 hurricanes to endanger parts of the US since Trump assumed the Oval Office. As of Monday morning, Dorian is still battering the Abaco and Grand Bahama Islands. The hurricane -- the strongest on the planet anywhere this year -- lashed the region overnight and is forecast to continue through much of Monday. The storm is now expected to move northward and possibly bring hurricane-force winds to Florida Monday night before moving up the east coast.........................................
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/01/politics/donald-trump-category-5-hurricane-dorian/index.html
I think it is really dangerous that a president would forget or blabber on and on like this during a Hurricane news conference.
Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)He went to the Florida Panhandle and saw the damage. God, he's just too stupid for words.
bucolic_frolic
(43,287 posts)and not very popular
Botany
(70,582 posts)From wiki: Hurricane Katrina was a Category 5 hurricane that made landfall on Florida and Louisiana in August 2005
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina
lonely bird
(1,688 posts)They dont care.
BumRushDaShow
(129,458 posts)In 2017, Hurricane Maria was a CAT 5 and since then, he has spent the past 2 years ENDLESSLY arguing and fussing with the mayor of San Juan. And earlier that year Hurricane Irma hit FL. Last year there was Hurricane Michael that blasted into the FL pan handle and tore through Alabama. Hurricane Matthew was in 2016, where Dorian appears to be paralleling the latter portion of Matthew's track (which is expected to go up the FL east coast).
There was a tweet that I saw yesterday related to Dorian and the CAT 5s just the past 4 years -
Link to tweet
TEXT
Dakota Smith @weatherdak
Four straight years.
Five category five hurricanes.
Five incredible eyes.
Embedded video
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10:22 AM - Sep 1, 2019
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,365 posts)If it doesn't affect Trump, it didn't happen.
mpcamb
(2,875 posts)Unload his worthless ass to the dustbin of history for incompetence and stupidity.
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)Turbineguy
(37,366 posts)I thought he was supposed to know everything.
soryang
(3,299 posts)insufficient fund of knowledge, poor situational awareness, avaricious ministers, it's a sociopathocracy.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)They're unbelievable. Incredible. Nobody has ever seen anything lie Trump's hurricanes.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)at "tRump doesn't think" We all know that.
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)and not related to his mental issues. He IS a fucking moron after all.
friend of m and j
(220 posts)he has ranted many times about giving them 92 million in aid after Hurricane Maria devastated the island. The Washington Post reports that about $14 billion of funds allocated by Congress has reached Puerto Rico so far.
christx30
(6,241 posts)It's not something that can be talked about in the same sentence as "Donald J. Trump", so why learn about it? Trump is the only thing that matters to Trump.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)If it's awful, it didn't happen or doesn't exist I don't think, or Hillary or Obama did it and/or are nasty: welcome to Monday?
Can someone pick up grandpa and take him away please, he's blocking the grownups, and the older one, Moscow Mitch is drooling again, did a puppy die?
IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)Paladin
(28,272 posts)Last night, a news channel showed trump using the same basic "I never even heard of a Category 5 hurricane" line, over and over and over again---4 separate times, at least. Fucking moron.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Repeating the same claim at least four times in three years could show either a real lack of concern for the truth - or worse yet - a very feeble memory.
Paladin
(28,272 posts)I'm betting they'll show it again---particularly if trump spews out yet another comment about never having heard of a Category 5.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Hes either lazy or crazy...