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Trump Suspected Of Accidentally Tweeting Emergency Alert, Terrifying Hawaiians

The president inadvertently triggered a warning of an inbound ballistic missile, sending islanders into a panic on Saturday

Allan Ishac
4 min readJan 14, 2018

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The frightening message tweeted out to Hawaiians by President Trump on Saturday. (Credit: nytimes.com)

President Donald Trump might have finally taken his irresponsible Twitter activity too far, sending residents of Hawaii into a state of panic and fleeing for bomb shelters on Saturday morning.

“The president was up early at the White House today, playing around with the emergency alert channels for various states, when he inadvertently sent a tweet to all residents of Hawaii warning them of an incoming missile,” explained White House Press Secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. “There was no immediate danger and no one was injured. The president is also safe and back in his private quarters watching television.”

When VP Pence and Secret Service agents stormed the Oval Office to investigate the Emergency Alert System breach, Mr. Trump pretended like he didn’t know what they were talking about. (Credit:pinterest.com)

But despite the White House’s contention that the incident was a non-event, Americans across the country were surprised to learn that the president has access to the Emergency Alert System and was able to use it to tweet an alarming…

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Allan Ishac

Author of The Mystic In The Mews (themysticinthemews.com). Satirist. Humor writer. Former advertising creative director. Visit me at allanishac.com.