U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he makes an impression of a transgender weightlifter during his address to House Republicans at the Kennedy Center, January 6, 2026. REUTERS Kevin Lamarque
Certified Broadcast and Consulting Meteorologist John Morales said he was thrown by President Donald Trump’s recent weather claims about Cuba.
The Miami New Times reports Trump told reporters on Monday at the White House that Cuba is not in a hurricane zone, beginning his remarks that Cuba was a “beautiful island” with “great weather.”
“They’re not in a hurricane zone, which is nice for a change, you know?” Trump told reporters. “They won’t be asking us for money for hurricanes every week … I do believe I’ll have the honor of taking Cuba. That’s a big honor.”
Aside from a modern-day U.S. president declaring his plan to “take” a legitimately and internationally-recognized nation for his own, Trump’s claim about Cuba’s balmyalternet sharpie Trump
hurricane-free weather “was news to meteorologists everywhere and to his own administration,” reports the Times.
Stunned, Morales attributed Trump’s mind-boggling claim to “the Sharpie in his brain at work.
Morales was referring to Trump vandalizing an official government weather map in 2019, apparently with a Sharpie, to expand the range of projected impact for 2019’s Hurricane Dorian — just to avoid admitting he’s lied about the hurricane menacing the state of Alabama.
But even more astounding, the Miami New Times reports Trump appeared to have forgotten that just two months ago, his own administration had delivered $3 million in disaster relief to Cuba after Hurricane Melissa slammed the island last October.
“The Trump administration said it sent charter flights from Miami in mid-January to bring food kits, hygiene and water treatment kits, household items, and kitchen supplies to 24,000 people in the hardest-hit areas of Santiago de Cuba, Holguín, Granma, and Guantanamo,” reports the Times. “The administration was working with the Catholic Church to ensure ‘assistance reaches the Cuban people directly and without regime interference.’”
A January 26 U.S. Department of State press release even states that “The United States remains steadfast in supporting the Cuban people’s post-disaster recovery,” before declaring the aid “the first in a series of shipments of humanitarian assistance … designed to reach those most in need, bypassing regime interference, and ensuring transparency and accountability.”
Months before causing its own island-wide hurricane-style electricity blackout, Trump’s people declared “our humanitarian assistance is part of a broader effort to stand with the Cuban people as they seek a better future.”
In addition to its January aid, the administration followed up its generosity in February with the announcement of an additional $6 million in supplies because of the lingering humanitarian and energy crisis of Cubans affected by Melissa.
