Sharpie-gate

Sure enough, it was Trump himself who took a Sharpie to the forecast map.

A White House official says it was President Trump himself who used the black Sharpie to doctor an official government map, which he then displayed during an Oval Office briefing, to falsely add Alabama into Hurricane Dorian’s potential pathway.

“No one else writes like that on a map with a black Sharpie,” the White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, told my colleagues Toluse Olorunnipa and Josh Dawsey.

This all is further evidence of Trump's vastly inflated ego. He can never be wrong about anything, he knows everything about any subject that can be named. When he makes a mistake, he doubles and triples down on it. Trump then makes it worse and converts what should have been a simple error into yet another extended debate about Trump's mental health.

Either a simple tweet five days ago that "I was wrong about Alabama being in the path of Dorian" or even ignoring the mistake would have sufficed and both Trump and his people could have moved on.

But no.

You can hold your breath for a very long time waiting for any of Trump's supporters to admit that he's nuts. Or they'll fall back to their standard defense of "but, but, Hillary". She had a lot of baggage, she was a horrible candidate, but at least she's not start raving bonkers. Unlike Trump.