Trump Cancels Poland Trip As Hurricane Dorian Approaches Florida

President Donald Trump gestures during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in Biarritz, south-west France on August 26, 2019. (Photo credit: LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP/Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump announced during a press conference Thursday that he is canceling his trip to Poland this weekend as Hurricane Dorian approaches Florida.

Trump will instead send Vice President Mike Pence in his place.

“Our highest priority is the safety and security of the people in the path of the hurricane,” Trump said during an appearance in the White House Rose Garden with Pence.

Bloomberg News first reported the news Thursday.

Hurricane Dorian is expected to strike Florida’s east coast by Monday. The storm avoided a direct hit on Puerto Rico earlier this week as it headed north toward the mainland U.S.

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  1. Needs to make sure the bedbugs in his hotels get properly evacuated…

  2. I hear the Navy Seabees are busy crafting a 100-foot high seawall around Mar-a-Lago as I type this.

  3. Lot of ink for a major storm hitting Florida so the hell with Poland, Trumpie’s gonna hunker down in his bedroom with a bushel of burgers and tweet a million tweets about how people should “stay safe!”

  4. as if the fact that he owns two golf clubs that could be hit has nothing to do with it…

  5. If there is a God, she can reveal herself now by flattening Mar-a-Lago and Doral with Dorian on Monday.

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