because the u.s. president has never before done a thing even remotely like what president trump did tonight in the context of this storm. i don't know what would count as relevant historical context here if i tried to make up that story. so we just gotta take it at face value and try to assess how we deal with this coming from the top of the federal government now. today, the president of the united states did what he called a hurricane update. the official white house twitter account posted a video of what the president did tonight and captioned it as president trump gives an update on hurricane dorian. what the president held up for display to the country in his update on hurricane dorian was a map that appears to have started out as a real map made by the national hurricane center, by the national weather service. you can see it started off as a real map. see in the left-hand corner,