Trump’s Most Pointless Lie
The president keeps insisting that Hurricane Dorian was forecast to hit Alabama.
There are many matters that might absorb the attention of the president of the United States right now: the hurricane nearing the East Coast and the devastation it visited on a neighboring commonwealth, the shaky global economy, the near-collapse of the government of the nation’s closest ally, missile tests in North Korea, the quality of Debra Messing’s dramatic output—you know, those sorts of national-security matters.
Yet no single subject has transfixed the president so consistently over the past week as attempting to prove that, at some point in the past, Hurricane Dorian was headed to Alabama. that Trump
