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Trump Tweets, Golfs Amid Hurricane Preparations

Steve Herman

   STERLING, VIRGINIA - After canceling a trip to Poland to stay stateside
   to oversee the federal government's response to an approaching
   hurricane, President Donald Trump took time out to golf and to send a
   thinly veiled warning to his ousted Oval Office gatekeeper.

   The president, on Saturday morning, was flown on Marine One from Camp
   David in Maryland to his Trump National Golf Club in Sterling,
   Virginia.
   Camp David has a driving range and a single golf hole with multiple
   tees, but the president, keeping to his weekend routine when the
   weather is fair, chose to head to the nearest of his private 18-hole
   courses.

   Before departing the presidential retreat, which he rarely has used,
   Trump dispatched a blizzard of tweets -- at a rate of nearly one per
   minute over an hour -- on his personal @realDonaldTrump account.

   Some of his tweets referenced Hurricane Dorian, a Category 4 storm
   poised to damage the southeastern U.S. coast, with Trump noting it
   could pose more of a threat to South Carolina and Georgia than the
   original forecast of landfall in Florida.

     Looking like our great South Carolina could get hit MUCH harder than
     first thought. Georgia and North Carolina also. It's moving around
     and very hard to predict, except that it is one of the biggest and
     strongest (and really wide) that we have seen in decades. Be safe!
     -- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) [1]August 31, 2019

   "He's being briefed every hour" about the hurricane,according to White
   House press secretary Stephanie Grisham.

   Amid continuing questions about why Trump postponed his trip to Poland
   for a hurricane that is not expected to hit any of the United States
   until after the time the president would have returned from Europe,
   Grisham said, "Obviously, being here domestically is better. ...
   We'remore nimbleand all his agencies are here."

   After time at his golf course, Trump was to receive another briefing,
   back at Camp David, about the hurricane.

   On Sunday, Trump is scheduled to return to the White House and then
   visit the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in
   downtown Washington.

References

   1. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1167799335096131584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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