After facing ridicule for suggesting over the weekend that Hurricane Dorian might strike Alabama, President Donald Trump apparently decided to try to prove his point on Wednesday. As the storm was approaching the U.S. on Sunday, Trump said at a briefing that it could threaten much of the southeast including Alabama — despite official projections that didn’t show the hurricane approaching the Gulf Coast state. Several news reports noted Trump’s misstatement, whereupon he took to Twitter to defend himself. During a briefing on the storm’s threat to the U.S. east coast yesterday, the president had an aide show reporters a dated map from the National Weather Service showing initial projections of Dorian’s track into Florida. Someone appears to have altered the map with a Sharpie to extend the track beyond Florida — into Alabama. When asked Wednesday whether the map had been altered, Trump said he didn’t know how it had been amended and that Alabama was going to be hit in the “original forecast.”