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| Donald Trump, shown here windblown and exhausted after blocking all Atlantic Ocean hurricane this year so far. Allegedly. |
Want proof? Just turn to the social media account called Rapid Response 47. It calls itself "The office White House Rapid Response account. Supporting President Trump's America First agenda and holding the Fake News accountable. MAGA!"
As you can imagine, you'll get some wild comments from that account.
On the social media site X, this all started from a post by meteorologist Chris Martz. He wrote, "History has been made! No hurricanes have formed in the North Atlantic Ocean so far this year. This is the FIRST time on record in the satellite era (since 1966)."
Fact check: Martz is completely correct. All the hurricane experts are pretty gobsmacked by this lack of Atlantic hurricanes so far this year.
But then Rapid Response 47 page tagged Martz's post with the message, "Thank you President Trump!"
That's right. The Trump team says Trump has somehow stopped Atlantic hurricanes this year. I haven't seen any indication of how Trump has stopped the hurricanes.
But everyone on the coastline form Brownsville, Texas to Eastport, Maine must be thanking the Glorious Orange One for protecting their homes and properties and beaches.
But wait a minute. Is Trump really preventing those hurricanes or is something else afoot?
It's probably no accident that Rapid Response 47 tagged Martz. Martz is a MAGA-friendly climate skeptic, one that the Trump sycophants probably feel safe with.
But in a post today, Martz posted something else. Not in response to the Trump people, just science. And once again, Martz was completely accurate. Turns out maybe it isn't Trump who is preventing the hurricanes.
Martz explained that we aren't getting hurricanes in the Atlantic due to shear, which is changes in wind speed and direction with height. The strong winds aloft are tearing apart wannabe tropical storms. Plumes of dust from the Sahara Desert are also working against tropical systems.
He didn't get into why there is so much shear. It's because El Nino is currently super strong, and it continues to cause that shear over the Atlantic Ocean.
Responses to the claim that Trump is stopping hurricanes have been predictably brutal.
Some examples:
"Can't believe Trump can control weather but not the debt."
"Holy crap. You're thanking him for the weather? This is some messed up North Korea shit going on."
"Dumbfuck cult members think their Flatulent Fuhrer controls the weather."
"All he had to do was to threaten to change the name to the American Ocean, and the hurricanes are cowering in fear.!"
Even Ted Cruz cryptically posted on X:
"Since I'm told that he's responsible for everything, I blame Trump."
I have to ask why Trump hasn't stopped the hurricanes in the Pacific Ocean. Two of them have sideswiped Hawaii, and caused a lot of damage there. Another Pacific hurricane stayed offshore, but sent enormous waves crashing into the southern California coast, causing quite a bit of damage there.
This isn't the first time Trump has been praised for his alleged ability to control weather. Last year, no hurricanes made landfall in the United States, which was a welcomed break from years of destructive storms.
Then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, during a televised cabinet meeting, said, "Sire, you made it through a hurricane season without a hurricane.....Even you kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that."
Sigh.
The Atlantic hurricane season ends on November 30, so there is plenty of time for such a storm to form.
The National Hurricane Center says a tropical system could form in the central subtropical Atlantic Ocean later this week.
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