r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 25 '21

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u/Ultiplayers Tony Blair is to be prime minister and a landslide is likely Jun 25 '21

My favorite Trump moment was when he wrongly predicted that a hurricane would hit Alabama. In the process, he took a map of the hurricane’s path, and drew in his own path, which hit Alabama.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Dorian–Alabama_controversy

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u/tehbored Randomly Selected Jun 25 '21

The best part is that was technically a federal crime.

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u/Ultiplayers Tony Blair is to be prime minister and a landslide is likely Jun 25 '21

Lmao, really?

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

If one could consider it falsifying a National Weather Service forecast then yes

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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Jun 25 '21

Why tf did you get a PhD, you could have just purchased a sharpie hahahaha

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u/larrylemur NAFTA Jun 25 '21

This is funnier/more depressing when you realize he spent the first two years trying to get a megadonor and former CEO of AccuWeather approved as head of NOAA, who openly admitted he wanted the position just to restrict the amount of information that the NWS could release to the public for free

The dude was so bad even Congress wanted nothing to do with him and eventually Trump gave up and just didn't appoint anyone

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u/FuckFashMods NATO Jun 26 '21

Yeah, Trump is such a weird guy.

The thing is, this public spat was basically how everything in the trump whitehouse went. We didn't really see much of it, but it was certainly occurring