Trump tweetstorm dominates presidential weekend

The Hill logoPresident Trump tweeted more than 100 times over the three-day weekend as Hurricane Dorian approached and then battered the Bahamas.

Many of the presidential tweets were focused on the dangerous storm, though the president, who split his time at the White House, his Virginia golf club and Camp David, also focused his ire on the media and some celebrity critics.

Trump tweeted Sunday that South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama were likely to be hit by Dorian — a message that might have caused some confusion since the storm was too far east to affect Alabama. The National Weather Service in Birmingham quickly refuted the president’s tweet with one of its own.

View the complete September 3 article by Brett Samuels on The Hill website here.