White House Pressed Agency to Repudiate Weather Forecasters Who Contradicted Trump

[Cardinal]

This is now the eleventh day of a scandal in which the White House instructed the NOAA to lie to the American people about the weather. And all because the President can't admit he made a mistake.

WASHINGTON — The White House was directly involved in pressing a federal scientific agency to repudiate the weather forecasters who contradicted President Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian would probably strike Alabama, according to several people familiar with the events.

Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, told Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, to have the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publicly disavow the forecasters’ position that Alabama was not at risk. NOAA, which is part of the Commerce Department, issued an unsigned statement last Friday in response, saying that the Birmingham, Ala., office was wrong to dispute the president’s warning.

In pressing NOAA’s acting administrator to take action, Mr. Ross warned that top employees at the agency could be fired if the situation was not addressed, The New York Times previously reported. Mr. Ross’s spokesman has denied that he threatened to fire anyone, and a senior administration official on Wednesday said Mr. Mulvaney did not tell the commerce secretary to make such a threat.

White House Pressed Agency to Repudiate Weather Forecasters Who Contradicted Trump - The New York Times

 

[Rexedgar]

This Admin certainly know how to breathe life into otherwise forgettable events....

 

[Obscurity]

Holy **** this is completely insane. Just completely insane. I honestly cannot believe Trump is this obsessed with being right that he would continue to what is it, quintuple down on this absurdity?

Unbelievable.

 

[trixare4kids]

This is now the eleventh day of a scandal in which the White House instructed the NOAA to lie to the American people about the weather. And all because the President can't admit he made a mistake.



White House Pressed Agency to Repudiate Weather Forecasters Who Contradicted Trump - The New York Times

Lather, Rinse, Repeat because we can never have enough threads on Trump said something his resistors hate....

 

[OrphanSlug]

That is what this Administration has become... one sharpie pen to shelter the ego of a narcissistic lunatic's tweet, becomes an interdepartmental mess because of a contradiction tweet by the National Weather Service in Alabama, and ends up needing a warning for all of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by the Department of Commerce secretary to no longer contradict that narcissistic lunatic... all so that same narcissistic lunatic can talk about it again claiming being right all along while flanked, and backed up, by his Homeland Security Adviser.

Let all of that sink in.

Oh yeah, and now everyone is having to back up President Umpa Lumpa some going so far as to say "(Trump) is genuinely interested in improving weather forecasts" (from the OP article.)

... about those history books and this period of US history we are living in.

 

[Rogue Valley]

 

[Cardinal]

Holy **** this is completely insane. Just completely insane. I honestly cannot believe Trump is this obsessed with being right that he would continue to what is it, quintuple down on this absurdity?

Unbelievable.

Mulvaney and Ross need to be impeached, and all because the President had some weird brain fart and incorrectly said that a certain state would be hit by a hurricane. If he hadn't persisted with the sharpie idiocy, and if the NOAA scandal hadn't happened, literally nobody would be talking about this.

 

[Obscurity]

Mulvaney and Ross need to be impeached, and all because the President had some weird brain fart and incorrectly said that a certain state would be hit by a hurricane. If he hadn't persisted with the sharpie idiocy, and if the NOAA scandal hadn't happened, literally nobody would be talking about this.

This is just complete idiocy and a total laughing stock. We have a president who cannot let go of the fact he was wrong about a hurricane.

Literally.

This is our president.

What a sad joke.

 

[Geoist]

Lather, Rinse, Repeat because we can never have enough threads on Trump said something his resistors hate....

You can thank Dear Leader for dragging it out. The clown has no concept of damage control.

 

[notquiteright]

Lather, Rinse, Repeat because we can never have enough threads on Trump said something his resistors hate....

Lather, Rinse, Repeat because that's all the tRumps can do with each new idiotic lie the President trots out and then defends for days- until the next stupid lie the tRumpers have to pretend is all fake news and decry as just haters gotta hate... :doh

Christ onna crutch, teenaged girls act more mature than this... eace

 

[Nickyjo]

Lather, Rinse, Repeat because we can never have enough threads on Trump said something his resistors hate....

No, we resisters are saddened but not surprised that we have such a weakling in the White House. Trump will say or do something dumb or offensive in the next 48 hours to be sure, but he is the rare breed who stretches out his own absurdities to lengths unimaginable to others. Part of being a stable genius, I guess.

 

[Obscurity]

Lather, Rinse, Repeat because we can never have enough threads on Trump said something his resistors hate....

How can you continue to excuse this? It's absolutely insane that the president, who ought to be concerned with more important things, cannot simply stop talking about this story?

How can you ignore how absolutely insane this is?

 

[SkyFox76]

Lather, Rinse, Repeat because we can never have enough threads on Trump said something his resistors hate....

You really think this based on hate? You seem stuck in that mode and unable to see this is about a man so insecure his administration has stepped in to manipulate NWS announcements. It's not only dangerous, it's absurd beyond reasonable thought. Its something I expect to come out of North Korea. Kju telling people HIS version of the weather is far more precise over experts. What they're getting drenched in is liquid sunshine! :doh

 

[Crosscheck]

How can you continue to excuse this? It's absolutely insane that the president, who ought to be concerned with more important things, cannot simply stop talking about this story?

How can you ignore how absolutely insane this is?

You got to give em a break. They are forbidden to take off those blinders.

 

[3leftsdoo]

Lather, Rinse, Repeat because we can never have enough threads on Trump said something his resistors hate....

It's unreal ain't it?

Trump hysteria is like a three year liberal cocaine binge.