Independent: Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has bizarrely thanked Donald Trump for “keeping the hurricanes away.”
Speaking during the final cabinet meeting of the year on Tuesday (2 December), Noem expressed her gratitude to the US president, “Sir, you made it through hurricane season without a hurricane… even you kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that.”
No hurricanes made landfall in the United States during the Atlantic hurricane season, for the first time since 2015.
But, last month, Hurricane Melissa became one of the most powerful on record, killing at least 106 people across the Caribbean.”
People: As the president appeared to be frequently closing his eyes, his secretaries showered him with compliments on everything from his sacrifices for the American people to his apparent influence on the weather.
ABC News: The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season proved to be consequential, even though no hurricanes made landfall in the U.S for the first time since 2015.
Three Category 5 hurricanes formed during this past hurricane season, the second-most on record in the Atlantic basin. The only other season that saw more Category 5 storms was in 2005, when there were four Category 5 storms.
Reuters (2019) : U.S. President Donald Trump showed a map of Hurricane Dorian’s projected path on Wednesday that appeared to have been altered with a Sharpie pen to include the state of Alabama, which was never in harm’s way.
