Donald Trump Stayed On The Golf Course As Hawaii Panicked

[riversedge]

Source: Huff post




S 01/13/2018 10:31 pm ET

He didn’t even tweet about the false missile alarm as soon as he put away his golf clubs.

Critics are blasting President Donald Trump for continuing to golf Saturday while frantic Hawaii residents rushed for cover after a false cell phone alarm about an incoming ballistic missile.

The president was on the course at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, after the alert was issued at 1:09 p.m. EST, according to press pool reports. His motorcade didn’t leave the club for Mar-a-Lago until 1:38 p.m.

Although Hawaii’s Emergency Management Agency quickly tweeted that the initial warning was an error, it took 38 minutes before a second mobile alert declared the first a false alarm. Officials said the wrong button had been pushed.

As of Saturday evening, Trump had not issued any personal statement — or tweet — about the scare. He did tweet about “fake news” and again called journalist Michael Wolff’s book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, a “fake book.” He described Wolff as “mentally deranged.”
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We really do have a shithole President. He could have--should have immediately reassured Hawaii that it was a false alarm and offer to assist in helping to make sure it does not happen again.

Link to tweet

[Hoyt]

1. That is probably a good thing.

[christx30]

11. I agree.

There are so many ways trump could have, and probably would have made the situation worse. I don't think he could have improved things. It's best that he just no involvement at all. Let actual competent people work the problem.
Keep golfing, buddy. We got this.

[ailsagirl]

32. "Keep golfing, buddy. We got this."

Well said, christx30!!

[christx30]

37. You know,

we don't bother him, he doesn't bother us. It's honestly the best possible scenario of a Trump presidency. He golfs, pardons a thanksgiving turkey, kills 3 of the turkeys that Obama pardoned ("bringing law and order back to America&quot .
Pence may be a religious ideologue, but at least he's simi-mentally stable. And maybe he'll only lie 70% of the time. That'd be a vast improvement.

[ailsagirl]

38. I'm with you on all this

[Dave Starsky]

18. If Trump told us there had not been a missile strike...

I would immediately head for the nearest deep hole in the ground.

[strangedaysindeed]

2. We're beginning to see

articles saying the missile scare and Chump's non-reaction highlights the fact they have no plan for an attack.

NO, That Is the plan. Just like W and 911, they are going to Let it happen.

[Dopers_Greed]

15. Having no plan is the plan

The more damage that an incident causes, the more power that Herr Shithole and the Republican Congress can consolidate.

[Plucketeer]

25. The "mechanics" of it mean little

The FEAR fomented thereby, is the primary goal.

[brush]

34. You're getting to my thinking on it. Was it done accidentally on purpose to condition us for...

what's coming?

A few generals have been quoted as saying that war is coming and both trump and Un are unstable as it comes.

[Plucketeer]

35. I have to wonder

How many Trumpites would be all excited to see their youngsters fed into the meat grinder that a war is?

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Meh. It was the Hawaii authorities who put out the message, and they who had to calm people

That tweet doesn't even say when anyone informed Trump about the false alert - it may have been after Hawaii and Gabbard had already told people it was wrong.

I don't think Trump inserting himself into this would have helped. It might have made things worse. They don't need him to fix this.

[groundloop]

5. Yes, there are plenty of other issues we need to be outraged about right now

[Hortensis]

4. Uhhh... Trump connect dots? Feel responsibility?

Of course belief in imminent death was vastly heightened by our president's very dangerous fire-and-fury threats, but who thinks he's capable of realizing that? Or of feeling shame instead of pleasurable power if someone explained it?

Anyway, Hawaii's government owns this one. Just wish it had one of those betraying Republican governors to throw rocks at.

[Plucketeer]

36. You made me try to visualize

Dumpy trying to master a page out of one of those connet-the-dots books. And after he'd done his best, would he have revealed some sorta creature he could recognize?

[Hortensis]

39. :) He himself is a creature we can recognize.

[keithbvadu2]

6. Rather than show leadership and assure America that things really are ok, Dotard just kept playing g

Rather than show leadership and assure America that things really are ok, Dotard just kept playing golf.

Russia and China learned how incompetent Donald really is.

[Perseus]

8. Maybe they never told him because they know he reacts

that he is not someone who will try to get to the bottom of the problem, plus his little hands are itching for the opportunity to hit the button...good thing they didn't say anything to the man-child.

[keithbvadu2]

14. Movie: The Longest Day? - aides would not wake Hitler

Movie: The Longest Day? - aides would not wake Hitler

[Paladin]

7. Thus avoiding World War III.

If I had my way, impeachment proceedings would start, tomorrow morning. The daily national humiliation is bad enough. For Christ's sake, what is it going to take for this sick, dangerous individual to be removed from his capability to kill us all?

[Freethinker65]

9. Now watch this drive

[brooklynite]

10. I'm actually puzzled about why the SS didn't grab him off the course...

I would think there would be a security protocol if any suggestion of a missile attack happened.

[TNNurse]

13. Well, you have to consider that no one near the president

had any idea anything was happening. Which I think is not uncommon.

[SHRED]

12. Maybe it's better he was golfing

Instead of launching a retaliatory strike.

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. Well there is that.

[Nay]

26. I wouldn't have told the Dumbfuck in Chief anything, either. Why give him a reason to

push the Really Big Button??

[Fritz Walter]

17. Blue State blues

Hawaiians are in the same boat as Californians: because so few of Cult-45* live — and vote — there he has zero fucks to give for Blue State citizens.

[BigmanPigman]

20. The blue states who pay high taxes should

sit on sending any money to the Fed Govt until we get some of our own needs/wishes met. Too bad they can't do this (or can they?).

[DBoon]

21. They think Hawaii is an exotic foreign country

Like Haiti

[From the Harem]

19. This is Trump's Bridgegate!

Hawaii Judges are vexing Trump.
Jeff Sessions can't even say the State's name, calls the entire State of Hawaii "an island in the middle of the ocean"
The White House said that Trump was aware of a "drill".

This is Trump's "Bridgegate"! He knew exactly "what the drill was". In true Trumpian form, the purpose of "the drill" was to terrorize the State of Hawaii and her residents while attacking their tourism revenue stream.

I mean, who would even believe that the great US of A doesn't have state of the art anti-ballistic missile defense systems in place!
Bah!

[Doitnow]

22. My first thought re his staying at the golf course was that as long as the missile didn't hit

near him he didn't care.

[lark]

23. OMG, the ads write themselves.

Show the alert, show people panicking, show drumpf calmly playing golf and ignoring the could-be major threat, then the voice over about drumpf getting the warning call and ignoring it. Ask, what if this had been real, would Hawaii have been destroyed before he'd bother to take a break and see what was really going on? Ask, is this who will protect the nation if the threat, raised dramatically by his personal name calling, becomes real or will he just keep golfing? Burntastic!

[3catwoman3]

24. He described Wolff as mentally deranged.

Methinks the Dotard doth project too much.

[Toorich]

27. Hey...

White House spokesperson announces that the pResident followed club rules and yelled "Fore!" when told the missile was coming.

[WhoWoodaKnew]

28. I'm glad. I don't want him making any quick decisions.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

29. Perspective for this event.

If there had been a real launch, it would have been detected early by our military and the event would have been relayed to tRump very quickly, as well as to numerous other authorities such as the early warning system, counter-measure attack systems, etc. In addition, I believe all high-level government officials would immediately be rushed off to secure facilities.

Since missiles would be detected early in the flight, I'm speculating that in such an event, early warnings would be sent out to multiple areas and as the trajectory is better determined, the alerts would be refined down to more exact locations.

This is probably why tRump most likely was not even told about this false alarm until later.

................. ....................

[disalitervisum]

30. What else would you expect, since Hawaii is the birthplace of President Obama

[steve2470]

31. Trump reminds me of this infamous Bush43 moment....

[jmowreader]

33. Keeping Trump away from a secure phone until they could sort out the situation is the best thing

All kidding aside, I do not believe you understand how close the world came to ending yesterday. If Trump would have been in a place where he could have launched missiles, he WOULD have launched missiles.