Get the net
by Tom Sullivan
"We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them," President Andrew Shepherd told a press conference in The American President (1995). Michael Douglas was acting. The actual U.S. president is faking (2019).
There are serious problems that need attention this morning — hurricane relief and climate change are just two — but it is hard to avoid mentioning Donald Trump's juvenile and utterly insane "war on reality."
While ten Democratic candidates for president answered climate change questions in a rolling CNN town hall Wednesday night, the hashtags #SharpieTrump and #SharpieGate blew up the Internet.
Digby provided the short version yesterday:
In case you don't know what this is all about, this spells the whole stupid thing out. Long story short: Trump tweeted out that Alabama was in Hurricane Dorian's path over the weekend and he was wrong. Instead of admitting it he has doubled down and offered this ridiculous "proof" with a crude sharpie pen line extending the hurricane path.
The map Trump used to prove he was right all along was a week old. But wait. There's more.
He denied knowing how the image was altered and insisted Alabama was in the original forecast track. It wasn't. But Trump provided visual proof he was right about that too.
This was the originally projected path of the Hurricane in its early stages. As you can see, almost all models predicted it to go through Florida also hitting Georgia and Alabama. I accept the Fake News apologies! pic.twitter.com/0uCT0Qvyo6
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2019
Any graphic designer will point out that Trump's chart is obviously doctored. The lines he added clearly do not have symbols associated with them and are not accounted for in the legend. #SharpieGate #Sharpie #SharpieTrump #HurricaneDorian pic.twitter.com/eZCAFe2EkM
— Doug Muise (@DougMuise) September 4, 2019
Trump releases photo to show he’s taller than Obama. pic.twitter.com/U4K7C4MzQI
— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 4, 2019
OMG! The White House released a new photo of President Trump golfing. #sharpiegate #sharpie pic.twitter.com/BZz1lUUUqL
— Mark Novata (@mark_novata) September 4, 2019
🚨 Bombshell! 🚨
— Daniel Young (@dyoung8005) September 4, 2019
Whitehouse releases photo showing it was actually James Comey writing hush money checks. #sharpiegate #Sharpie #Trump pic.twitter.com/bAH8wz7psm
My hands are big, the biggest, huge hands. Very big. This picture clearly shows off my massive manly hands. #SharpieGate #SharpieTrump pic.twitter.com/pOFIziBAdM
— LittleDonaldTrump (@Little__Trump) September 4, 2019
BREAKING: White House circulating this photo to prove @RealDonaldTrump never met Jeffrey Epstein #SharpieTrump #SharpieGate pic.twitter.com/lulBwPxKta
— MusicReviewer (@MusicReviewer7) September 5, 2019
Trump releases photo showing how windmills cause cancer. #sharpiegate pic.twitter.com/7rN8YHO488
— BHall (@bhall001) September 5, 2019
You might be missing this one. #sharpiegate pic.twitter.com/fzEVdfi3W2
— Marta McCall (@MartaMcCallHome) September 5, 2019
The acting chief of state got into the presidentin' business claiming he would stop the world from laughing at us (him).It is a violation of federal law to falsify a National Weather Service forecast and pass it off as official, as President Trump did here.
— Dennis Mersereau (@wxdam) September 4, 2019
18 U.S. Code § 2074: https://t.co/jvROnpSJLI pic.twitter.com/TnIuvZRJoS
Ladies and gentlemen this is the President of the United States #sharpiegate pic.twitter.com/lz9WxApA1Y
— Dan Gman (@DanGman4) September 5, 2019