So David Richardson, acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said he only recently learned there’s such a thing as hurricane season.
That’s like the manager of a Red Lobster restaurant saying he only recently learned about “Lobsterfest,” with the important caveat that a dumb Red Lobster manager’s ignorance is less likely to result in widespread death in America's coastal regions.
Welcome to the Trump administration, where a person like Richardson who has no experience in emergency management can ascend to the top job at FEMA by checking President Donald Trump’s three key boxes: white, male and radically unqualified.
Richardson’s apparent lack of basic meteorological knowledge brings into question his ability to do his job, given that hurricane season, which is, in fact, real, started June 1 and lasts through November.
How is it possible that a fully grown, human American has never heard of hurricane season? There’s a Jimmy Buffett song titled “Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season” for Pete’s sake.
