In video message on Dorian, President Trump displays doctored forecast

Enlarge / This is a screenshot from a White House briefing on Hurricane Dorian on Wednesday. (credit: White House/Twitter)

On Wednesday, as Hurricane Dorian pulled northward away from Florida, having narrowly missed the Sunshine State, President Donald Trump offered an update on the storm.

"We got lucky in Florida. Very, very lucky indeed," the president said. "We had-actually, our original chart was that it was going to be hitting Florida directly. It was going to be hitting directly and that would have affected a lot of other states. But that was the original chart. And you see it was going to hit not only Florida, but Georgia. It was going towards the Gulf. That was what was originally projected. And it took a right turn."

In the middle of this comment, Trump turned to an aide who held up an official forecast chart from the National Hurricane Center. The forecast, issued at 11am ET on Thursday, August 29, by the Miami-based institution, shows Dorian striking Florida on Monday, September 2.

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