Commentators tried to make sense of President Trump's insistence that Hurricane Dorian presented a serious threat to Alabama. Meanwhile, his plan to divert Pentagon spending to fund the border wall is progressing. | Richard Galant for CNNOpinion
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Consider the Sharpie. The iconic, proudly permanent, marker,"born for unique, unruly, courageous, outrageous self-expression that never, ever fades from glory," says its manufacturer. A tool that might have been expressly invented for President Donald Trump. On Wednesday, Trump displayed a hurricane forecast map in the Oval Office. It appeared crudely altered as if with, say, a bold-tipped black marker, to back up his insistence, that Hurricane Dorian had presented a serious threat to Alabama, days after it had turned toward the East Coast."A Sharpie-writer forces others to pay closer attention," noted Michael D'Antonio.
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