"The storm looks like it could be a very, very big one indeed," the President added, as it's possible Dorian could threaten the President's Mar-a-Lago retreat, along with several of his golf courses in south Florida.
"Very important for me to be here," the President added.
President Trump: "To ensure that all resources of the federal government are focused on the arriving storm, I have decided to send our Vice President Mike Pence to Poland this weekend in my place…this storm looks like it could be a very very big one indeed." #Dorian pic.twitter.com/WBL3j07436
— CSPAN (@cspan) August 29, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump cancels Poland trip as Hurricane Dorian approaches Florida, will send Vice President Pence in his place.
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) August 29, 2019
“Floridians need to take this storm seriously,” said Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), who dealt with such threats while he was Governor.
Florida has had several damaging hurricanes in recent years, as Hurricane Matthew tore up much of the Atlantic Coast of the state, bringing large floods around Jacksonville in 2016.
Last year, Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle from the Gulf of Mexico, doing major damage along the coast, and well inland through the state of Georgia.
President Trump had originally planned to visit both Poland and Denmark on this trip - he scrapped the Denmark trip in a spat over the U.S. being interested in buying Greenland from the Danish government.
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