PIERS MORGAN: Memo to President Trump and the self-obsessed US media: for the love of sweet Alabama, stop this pathetic sharpie sideshow squabble and focus on Hurricane Dorian's catastrophic carnage
Daily Mail
September 6, 2019
PIERS MORGAN: For five days, President Trump has been engaged in a vicious public spat with cable news networks and newspapers over whether or not deadly Hurricane Dorian briefly threatened to hit Alabama.
Yes, the dominant narrative of this hurricane story has become a squabble over something that DIDN'T HAPPEN. The unedifying farce began on Sunday when Trump tweeted that 'in addition to Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated.'
However, Dorian did not affect Alabama. That's not 'fake news', just a fact. But in the wake of his warning large tranches of US media gleefully sunk their attack dog fangs into Trump over his apparent gaffe. They did that deliberately, knowing he would react badly to such goading, because he always does.
So for FIVE DAYS, this utterly irrelevant aspect to the huge hurricane news story has now dominated the President's attention and media coverage. And frankly, it's pathetic.
It's pathetic that President Trump is so obsessed with proving himself right over a relatively trivial matter that he talks about it more than the actual devastation being wrought by the hurricane.
And it's equally pathetic that so many in the US media have obsessed so frenziedly about whacking Trump over it, rather than obsess on the real story.
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