i just wonder your thoughts about how the trump team is spinning this map snafu and fund-raising off of it, trying to capitalize off of it. trying to capitalize on it. we ve seen that before, but nothing on this scale for something like this where the president not embarrassed. well, in actually trying to get over the embarrassment by not only doubling down, tripling down, but this is just a reminder to a lot of people out there. listen to your local weatherman and weather report. they have a better technology than a sharpie. but i think they are, look, they re trying to get turn a lemon into lemonade is what is going on here. it s an old trick in politics. i m not sure it is going to work. it is another sign of the president trying to say don t believe what you see. don t believe what he calls fake news. don t believe the facts. don t believe the truth. matt, even at fox news now there
tripling down, not able to admit a mistake into really another way to call it all fake news. so in that sense, it fits the overarching narrative that is always part of this white house. we mentioned the statement that came out in the last couple of hours from noaa. in that statement, noaa also reprimanded the national weather service in birmingham, which first corrected the president last sunday, saying their tweet, quote, spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time. now a prominent meteorologist in birmingham is speaking out saying, quote, the tweet from the weather service in birmingham was spot-on and accurate. if they re coming after them, they might as well come after me. how in the world has it come to this? gene robinson, as i say, this is a the word i was going to use, i think i used is unusual. there is probably oh, come on.
this week, as the storm has continued all week, we re talking about a sharpie. what is the sense of folks around trump in the white house? do they think he is achieving something here, or are they saying this is something he should not be doing, in their view? well, he is turning this story into really a roundabout way to attack media, which is kind of the overarching narrative of this white house. now it s that the reports about his mistake are inaccurate. he s trying to get all these ways to show no, i was right, and it s the media reporting on me that once again is wrong. we saw at the same time that another big story line of the week was the white house attacking the washington post for a story that the paper wrote about trump s lost summer, a huge opportunity to make inroads with policy achievements and on his campaign that was sort of lost to trivial fights. we saw them pushing back aggressively on that. so this is turning into a classic trump doubling down,
classic trump doubling down, tripling down, not able to admit a mistake into really another way to call it all fake news. so in that sense, it fits the overarching narrative that is always part of this white house. we mentioned the statement that came out in the last couple of hours from noaa. in that statement, noaa also reprimanded the national weather service in birmingham, which first corrected the president last sunday, saying their tweet, quote, spoke in absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time. now a prominent meteorologist in birmingham is speaking out saying, quote, the tweet from the weather service in birmingham was spot-on and accurate. if they re coming after them, they might as well come after me. how in the world has it come to this? gene robinson, as i say, this is a the word i was going to use, i think i use is unusual. there is probably oh, come on. well, as unusual as it,
and more. this is putting republicans like will hurd in a difficult position. you don t see a lot of them coming forward. the president is doubling down, tripling down, picking up that baton. continuing to tweet over the course of the evening and into this morning. taking out after elijah cummings and now nancy pelosi. alleging some things about inside her san francisco district similar to what he s talking about with elijah cummings. mick mulvaney is making the rounds. their defense of the president boils down to this. he was not being a racist. he was hitting back at elijah cummings because he had treated the acting secretary of homeland security very poorly in a hearing on july 18th about ten days ago. misrepresenting the facts on the ground with regards to the migrant community, where they are being kept in the detention centers along the southern boarder. not with standing the fact the