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Poiuyt

(18,130 posts)
Sun Jan 14, 2018, 11:42 AM Jan 2018

Trump played golf while people in Hawaii lived in terror

We all know that trump was on the golf course when the missile alarms in Hawaii sounded and that he continued playing. I'm assuming that he was notified immediately that there were alarms going off in Hawaii.

What I haven't heard was when he knew the alarms were false. By the time the message got to him, did he already know that it was a false alarm? If so, why didn't he contact the governor of Hawaii to notify him?

If he didn't know, then why didn't he leave the golf course to go to a secure command post?

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C_U_L8R

(45,021 posts)
1. Just imagine if the warning text had gone to him and his big buttons.
Sun Jan 14, 2018, 11:45 AM
Jan 2018

This clown is so incapable and incompetent it's stupid.
How long do we put up with this shithole shit?

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
2. Regardless if it were a terrible fuck up on the part of Hawaii,
Sun Jan 14, 2018, 11:46 AM
Jan 2018

but shit, the USA was not ready for such an attack. t-rump did not care, nor the WH. They were not ready for any follow-up. This is very frightening that our government lacks national security.

Blame "Blue" state all you want, but the bottom line is, the US government was not prepared.

President Obama would have been in contact with Hawaii, follow - ups galore, ready and prepared, and once it was not valid and a horrible mistake, he would have been on television to explain and calm down America. There would be no Blue state nor Red state, it would have been the United States of America.

 

janterry

(4,429 posts)
3. Maybe his people didn't tell him until after it was 'over'
Sun Jan 14, 2018, 11:56 AM
Jan 2018

because they didn't see him as helpful in the emergency? (Or, more accurately - they saw him as unhelpful in an emergency)

handmade34

(22,757 posts)
4. let him play golf...
Sun Jan 14, 2018, 11:56 AM
Jan 2018

the Country does not need him and the best thing to happen would be for DT to move out of the White House and just play golf...

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