Donald Trump

Trump displays hurricane map altered with Sharpie to include Alabama in Dorian's path

2019-09-04

President Trump showed reporters a National Hurricane Center forecast map for Hurricane Dorian that had been altered with a black marker to extend the storm's projected path into Alabama, days after the National Weather Service publicly corrected his claim that Alabama would be affected.

Barack Obama

Conservative media sustains multi-year narrative mocking Obama's teleprompter use as evidence he cannot speak unaided

2009-03-07

Beginning early in his presidency and continuing through his re-election campaign, conservative outlets and Republican politicians ran a recurring theme portraying President Obama's use of a teleprompter as a "crutch," nicknaming the device "TOTUS" (Teleprompter of the United States) and treating routine teleprompter use as proof he could not speak without a script.

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