On September 4, 2019, in the Oval Office, Trump displayed the National Hurricane Center’s August 29 diagram of Dorian’s projected track. The diagram had an oddly misshapen line, apparently drawn with a black marker, which added an additional lobe to the cone of uncertainty of the hurricane’s possible path which included southern Alabama. Public reaction ranged from mild skepticism to derision; Trump said he did not know how the map came to be modified.
Hurricane Dorian–Alabama controversy