One the eve of his trip to the Carolinas to survey the damage from Hurricane Florence, President Trump appeared in a video in which he…
One the eve of his trip to the Carolinas to survey the damage from Hurricane Florence, President Trump appeared in a video in which he described the storm as “one of the wettest we’ve ever seen from the standpoint of water.”
Standing on the White House lawn, Trump thanked first-responders “who have done such a great job in helping with Florence,” which he called a “tough hurricane.”
“And it certainly is not good. But the people of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, all of the areas affected, you’ve been incredible,” he said in the video posted on Twitter. “Florence has been a nasty one. A big one like that certainly has never been seen before.”
Trump added about the storm, which claimed at least 37 lives: “That’s a tough one. It’s tough to understand, but this has been a really difficult period of time for a lot of people.”
But it was his remark about the storm’s wetness that drew a flood of mockery in social media.
“One of the wettest we’ve ever seen from the standpoint of water.” He has the BEST words!” tweeted @TrevorOnAir.
“This dude just said ‘one of the wettest we’ve ever seen from the standpoint of water’ in a prerecorded video shoot and nobody even bothered to do a retake,” @AltCyberCommand posted .
And @Cyntizzle added: “The drunkest I’ve been from the standpoint of liquor.”
The president also was skewered online during the lead-up to Florence when he suggested from the Oval Office that the storm would be “tremendously big and tremendously wet.”
“It could very well be very similar to Texas in the sense that it’s tremendous amounts of water… probably more water than we’ve ever seen in a storm or a hurricane,” he said, referring to Hurricane Harvey’s toll on the Houston area last year.
