I thought I had heard everything, but how could this be?

a horse guy, i think it was. totally clueless.

Katrina killed IIRC over 1600 people. We could be looking at a hurricane season that will be even worse.

job Brownie, was it?

I know and have known many people who still believe the world is flat and never heard of Viet Nam or the Afghan wars or even the world trade center. News and information is not their thing. Sports, and hunting.. That's it.

My personal opinion is that we have ourselves to blame because of the voter registration drives. Haver the drivers license places just almost demand that people register to vote. We end up with a voting group who know nothing and will be led by the first piper who comes along with their flute..

At least he wasn't a DEI hire, right?

if you can’t do better than that, Skippy

This seems even dumber than the rest. I hope someone tells him what a complete idiot he is. How can they be this dumb?

I think it was said as a joke.

A special needs child in Duluth knows there is a hurricane season.

Where did you see that exactly? Was it in the Reuter's article?

From the article:

just like trump is always joking about ending the war on day one, etc.

But stating that someone didn't know the US had a hurricane season is an obvious joke.

do not realize there's a "season" for hurricanes. It's not that the information isn't out there, it's because it doesn't affect them and they don't pay that much attention.

C'mon now, please don't "see both sides" of this ridiculous situation.

And I don't want to hear more from those that believe he said it as a joke.
You do not "joke" about shit you don't know when you are being paid by taxpayers TO KNOW SHIT.

But IOKIYAR ... not to me ... it never is OK.

I was replying to the idea that "everyone" knows there's a hurricane season. Anyone who runs FEMA should be well aware of the hurricane season. Sorry I wasn't clear about that. I seriously doubt it was a joke. Those people are too cruel to know how to "joke."

Do you also do ...."that's just Trump being Trump"?

Since hurricanes kill regularly and cause billions upon billions in damage, even if he was joking, that shows a serious lack of character and good sense. Wouldn't you agree?

Anyone in charge of a small town sewer system in Montana knows there is a hurricane season,

If it is a settled fact that a person is in fact, an ass, then being a stupid ass is worse.

However, I don't see the stupid part here...I just see a poor attempt at humor with him ending up looking like an ass.

Trump also apparently never heard the word equalize before in his life either as he claimed to have invented the word a couple weeks ago. And no Trump wasn't joking. It's obvious when he learns something he didn't know before because he immediately acts like he knows something that that nobody else knows. You're giving this guy waaay too much credit. There are absolutely people stupid enough to not know there is a hurricane season. And this moron is from Michigan, a state rarely significantly directly affected by hurricanes. Nope, there is no evidence he was "joking" except an official spokesman saying so and only after the embarrassing news was made public. They were just trying to save face. Hell, it's been made clear that FEMA staff didn't think he was joking. No way was he joking. He's just an incompetent moron.

Way back in 1990 I was working as park ranger for Alberta Provincial Parks. The minster responsible for parks was Ralph Klein. He was dumb as rocks. One of my coworkers had unenviable job of following him around and explaining to media and other interested parties "what he really meant." Did this dufus get sacked? Hell no! He became premier of the entire Province.

Dumb ass conservatives are nothing new.

Look at GWB and some of his statements which were borderline 6th grade civics question failures.

However, this was a joke, probably taken out of context.

You have no proof that this orange appointee knows anything, except kissing donvict's ass.

What I am saying is, there are literally hundreds of things to show that trump and his minions have actually said AND done and not center on a twice removed comment that was probably a bad attempt at an obvious joke.

There is ZERO evidence to support your insistence. Neither orange, nor those who surround him, have EVER evidenced a sense of humour.

stupidity of a MAGAt. Some of them showed up at my local hospital with esophagus burns after they drank bleach to prevent Covid.

Hilarious. You know the REALLY funny part -- they don't care if we live or die, yet people are voting for this sh#t.

More more along the lines of poor taste, poor timing and general social retardation than outright not knowing that the US had a time of year that tropical systems occurred.

I'm out in rural area, so i really appreciate it.

East of Cookeville and west of Nashville.

I just read that again!

No I re-read it...Duh.

East of Cookeville, west of Knoxville

The Texan bragging about the size of his ranch --
"I can get in my truck on one end of my ranch at sunrise, drive in a straight line, and by sundown I'll still be on my property."
And the farmer from Maine says, "Ayup. I used to have a truck like that."

a putrid pairing

Its how they will retain power. Chaos

This shows us that he doesn't adapt well to change. Is he trying to say that hurricane plans, allocation of resources for hurricane preparedness, for February is no different than for September or October? It could very well be. We are not safe.

apparently.

Vlad Putin

No; it’s an actual Reuters report:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/

Unbelievably, this is an actual news story.

That is one of the two common features of all Trump appointees (alongside sycophancy).

Frankly it seems a bit excessive at this point. We've already turned the corner from well-done to fully burned, fate's just flexing on us now.

To think something that has never affected him doesn't exist.

Where is this guy from? Is he from the US?

after the first guy nominated by trump was fired. Heaven help us.

That sad. Glad I don't live in hurricane territory. It's scary enough having tornadoes now and then.

was too busy covering for Joe's decline to adequately train trump's nominees. Am I doing that right?

Whoddathunkit???!!!

How in hell do magaTs walk?

How can anyone be so ignorant of what his job is all about?

Mon, June 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM CDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with the situation.

The U.S. hurricane season officially began on Sunday and lasts through November. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast last week that this year's season is expected to bring as many as 10 hurricanes.

The remark was made by David Richardson, who has led FEMA since early May. It was not clear to staff whether he meant it literally, as a joke, or in some other context.

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA's parent agency, said the comment was a joke and that FEMA is prepared for hurricane season.

Snip

https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-fema-staff-confused-head-204941354.html

😕

Trump only hires top men!

It’s warmer in the summer than it is in the winter

How’s THAT for a stunning revelation?

is he? Five years old? What adult doesn’t know this! I had to look to see if this was the Onion.🧅

I was always very aware of hurricanes. I drove through the south and 1969 right after Camille. And I went down to Louisiana to cover Katrina in 20005. Oh yes, we have a hurricane season.

that can't be fixed with a sharpie.

But we are a costal state. But how crazy it is that the basic legal rules for being FEMA head doesnt include some short factsheet about things like disaster declarations, hurricane season, wild fire season (starting to be an issue w out of season fires).

I turned out to be fun. The wind was blowing pretty hard, but we didn’t have any damage and the bars had lots of hurricane happy hours.

It was a problem when the acting FEMA chief jokingly said he didn't know the U.S. has a hurricane season, but it wasn't the only problem in his remarks.

It was a problem when Trump’s acting FEMA chief said he didn't know the United States has a hurricane season.

It was a bigger problem when he apparently said FEMA wouldn’t come up with a new hurricane-response plan for 2025. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-06-03T13:03:10.958Z

How lazy.

PERHAPS, Bounty the Quicker Picker Upper is Trumps Solution for Hurricane Season..... He nailed someone with his superb arm throw during his press meeting in Puerto Rico.

When you take over a new job leading people, whether it be at the supervisory, mid-manager level, senior level, or executive level in the public or private sector, you don't start by saying you don't know what the job entails. That first impression destroys confidence in those you lead and, as the saying goes, ". you never get a second chance to make a first impression."

But knuckle-dragging, TACO-nite sycophants operate by different "rules".

Like saying in meeting #1, no one had better get in MY way ... [to consolidate power and fealty to the demented FOTUS, I assume].