Maybe his memory’s a little foggy, or maybe he’s just trying to block them out, but President Trump seems to be having a hard time remembering any Category 5 hurricane, even though there’ve been quite a few during his presidency.
He even seems to forget such things exist — like he did twice in less than 15 seconds, in a FEMA briefing on Saturday, as Hurricane Dorian started to close in on the Bahamas.
“I’m not sure that I’ve ever even heard of a Category 5, I knew it existed,” Trump stated, then added moments later: “A Category 5 is something that, I don’t know that I’ve even heard the term other than that I know it’s there.”
There have been 45 Category 5 hurricanes since Trump was born in 1946, 27 in the Atlantic and 18 in the Pacific — and seven of these storms occurred since he’s been president.
In September 2017, Trump exclaimed about Hurricane Irma, “I never never knew a Category 5 existed,” and then about a week later, when Hurricane Maria hit, he called it “a Category 5 storm, which literally never happens.”
As for Dorian, its strength hasn’t been the only point of confusion: Trump said n one of his early-warning tweets he said Alabama would be hit, and the National Weather Service issued a correction with all caps: “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from Dorian.” But that didn’t stop Trump from standing by his original claim in a later tweet thread.
Shr3kk_Wpg on September 3rd, 2019 at 20:16 UTC »
Not only does Trump say he's never heard of a category 5 hurricane, he also says the professional meteorologists have not as well. Not only is he confused, he is lying as well.
SteveKingIsANazi on September 3rd, 2019 at 20:15 UTC »
Those numbers are a pretty solid example of the damage being done by climate change tbh.
In the most recent 3.4% of trumps life, we've seen 15.6% of cat 5 hurricanes
PoliticalPleionosis on September 3rd, 2019 at 20:12 UTC »
In his defense, he doesn't pay attention. Also, there hasn't been a Hurricane named Donald.