As Hurricane Dorian headed toward Florida this past week — seemingly on a direct path toward the wealthy barrier island of Palm Beach — President Donald Trump assured reporters he wasn’t worried about the fate of his private club there. “Mar-a-Lago can handle itself,” Trump said Friday. “It’s a very powerful place.” Still, Trump acknowledged, Dorian was a “monster” hurricane that “could be very devastating.” For the next few days, as Florida held its breath while Dorian grew to a Category 5 storm, Trump kept a close watch on the storm. According to the Associated Press, Trump received hourly updates on Dorian, even while golfing at his private Virginia club. The storm didn’t stray too far from Trump’s Twitter feed, either. In the past 10 days, Trump posted about 200 tweets, mixing hurricane updates with whatever set him off in the moment. Past presidents have seized on disasters as an opportunity to transcend politics and comfort the nation, if only for a moment. For Trump, even as Dorian canceled his travel plans and took lives in the Bahamas, he continued to call out political enemies and the news outlets covering this deadly storm. While many Dorian-related tweets relayed vital government… Read full this story
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