Former President and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump claimed on Monday that “nobody thought” a storm as devastating as Hurricane Helene would make landfall at this point in the year despite the fact that it is currently peak hurricane season.
In remarks made in Valdosta, Georgia on Monday, Trump lamented that “the devastation wrought by this storm is incredible.”
“It’s so extensive, nobody thought this would be happening — especially now it’s so late in the season for the hurricanes,” he added.
But according to the Florida Climate Center at Florida State University, hurricane season on the United States’ Atlantic coast lasts from June 1 until November 30, with the peak coming between mid-August and late October.
Trump’s marveling at Helene’s appearance during peak season followed a string of controversial comments he made on Monday.
In one post on Truth Social, Trump accused his general election opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, of leaving “Americans to drown” while staging a “FAKE” photo op after Helene ripped through the East Coast.
In another, he accused North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper (D) and the federal government of “going out of their way not to help people in Republican areas.”
The former president also claimed that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R) was “having a hard time” getting President Joe Biden on the phone, insisting that “the federal government is not being responsive.”
Unfortunately for Trump, Kemp had already told reporters that he had spoken to Biden earlier in the day.
“The president just called me yesterday afternoon. I missed him and called him right back,” Kemp explained to the press. “And he just said ‘Hey, what do you need?’ And I told him, you know, we got what we need, we’ll work through the federal process. He offered that if there’s another things we need just to call him directly, which I appreciate that.”
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