The false alarm in Hawaii revealed an abdication of leadership by Trump

[orangecrush]

Link to tweet

It was sent more than three hours after the alert went out. As you can see, it has nothing to do with the alert. Those who follow Trump on Twitter — 46.6 million of them — haven’t been given any information about what happened on Saturday at all.

The White House did release a statement, well after the alert was revealed to be incorrect.

“The President has been briefed on the state of Hawaii’s emergency management exercise,” it read. “This was purely a state exercise.”

At the time the incorrect alert went out Trump was finishing up a round of golf at Trump National Golf Course in Florida.

Consider his responses. First that statement, which has one obvious aim: To assure the American people that it wasn’t his fault that the false alert went out — it was Hawaii’s. Then, that tweet, which shows what was preoccupying the president at the moment. Not that one of the 50 states had been briefly wracked with terror after a mistake was made by the people whose job it is to keep them safe. Instead, an insistence to the American people that the media is “fake news,” which was probably a response to the reports that trickled out bolstering a story from the Wall Street Journal that Trump had allegedly paid hush money to a porn star with whom he’d had an affair.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/politics/wp/2018/01/14/the-false-alarm-in-hawaii-revealed-an-abdication-of-leadership-by-trump/



How much longer?

[Orrex]

1. Sort of implies that he actually is a leader

Rather than an unhinged puppet.

[orangecrush]

2. agree

impossible to abdicate something you've never been.

[riversedge]

9. We know Trump is NO leader!

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Would you have wanted Trump to order a retaliatory strike against NK under the circumstances

of yesterday? He would do it just to prove he's a "leader".

[orangecrush]

7. I would have wanted him to issue a statement

addressing what happened, and shiwing concern for the people affected.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Bush did the same with either no response or late response, anthrax and Katrina.

When the anthrax crisis occurred, I could not believe that Bush or the government made
little or no attempt to inform Americans about the situation and necessary precautions to be
taken.

Katrina, the same thing. American dead bodies floating in the water and Bush did nothing.

The GOP does not really care about Americans. Only their own power, fame and wealth.

[Fred Sanders]

5. Many on DU made the exact same analysis instantly yesterday. Who needs Wash. Post?

DU should start an Instant Analysis Forum. Or Rapid Fake News Response.

[kentuck]

6. Republicans have failed their supporters and their country...

...by failing to speak up. They are the only ones that have the power to change the present political environment, yet they do nothing. One not need call them cowards, for their actions or in-actions speak louder than words.

[orangecrush]

8. Truth

[smirkymonkey]

10. Completely self-absorbed, narcissistic pig.

He could give a damn about anybody or anything but himself. Have I ever mentioned how much I hate him?

[orangecrush]

11. +1