He didn’t even tweet about the false missile alarm as soon as he put away his golf clubs.
Critics are blasting resident Donald Trump for continuing to golf Saturday while frantic Hawaii residents rushed for cover after a false cell phone alarm about an incoming ballistic missile.
The
Although Hawaii’s Emergency Management Agency quickly tweeted that the initial warning was an error, it took 38 minutes before a second mobile alert declared the first a false alarm. Officials said the wrong button had been pushed.
As
of Saturday evening, Trump had not issued any personal statement — or
tweet — about the scare. He did tweet about “fake news” and again called
journalist Michael Wolff’s book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, a “fake book.” He described Wolff as “mentally deranged.”
It’s
not clear exactly when Trump learned of the alert, although presumably
the resident would be informed of any potential threat immediately.
White House deputy press secretary Lindsay Walters said in a statement that the
“This was purely a state exercise,” she added.
A White House official told CNN that the
A senior administrative official told Politico that there was no military response around the
Former
Pentagon official Col. Morris Davis criticized the resident in a tweet
for continuing his round of golf on his “taxpayer funded vacation” as
Hawaiians “braced for a ballistic missile strike.”
Former
Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) tweeted that Trump was “somewhere on the
back nine” while “1.5 million American citizens” were told to seek
shelter.
Rep.
Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) was quickly informed of the alert error and
assured Hawaiians in a tweet that there was “no incoming missile,” even
before the second alert went out.
She
didn’t criticize Trump for golfing. But she did complain that the resident was neither taking the nuclear threat from North Korea
seriously enough nor dealing with it wisely.
A
former Pentagon communications director during the Obama administration
quipped that “thank God” Trump was playing golf during the false alarm.
Trump
frequently criticized Barack Obama for golfing when he was in office,
suggesting that he was neglecting his presidential duties.
President Obama has a major meeting on the N.Y.C. Ebola outbreak, with people flying in from all over the country, but decided to play golf!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 24, 2014
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