.MaddowBlog: Pres. Trump’s weather campaign takes a potentially dangerous turn
If Donald Trump were capable of shame, last week would’ve been a painful one for him. As a deadly hurricane approach the United States’ southeastern coast, the president was fixated on his false claim, peddled last weekend, that Alabama was among the states that were likely to “be hit harder than anticipated” at a point at which the evidence said the opposite.
In a statement released Friday afternoon, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stated Alabama was in fact threatened by the storm at the time Trump tweeted Alabama would “most likely be hit harder than anticipated.” The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent had a good piece last week, taking stock of the instances in which “government officials have wheeled into action in an effort to make Trump’s lies, errors and obsessions into truths,” and on Friday afternoon, the president added an unusually brazen example of the phenomenon.
Not politically convenient truths, not truths intended to satisfy certain constituencies, not truths that incorporate the weather into some kind of misguided food fight, but the actual truth. In other words, the president delivered a false warning to the public, people who assumed the president was right grew concerned, so the National Weather Service told people the truth. For its trouble, the NWS’s commitment to accuracy was denounced on Friday afternoon by the federal agency that oversees it.
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