Politics

Trump Obsessed With Avoiding His Own ‘Katrina Moment’

HECK OF A JOB

From planning for Florence to post-spinning Maria, the president deeply fears looking like Bush.

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As he prepares for one natural disaster and tries to spin his way out of another, President Donald Trump, aides and friends say, is guided by a singular obsession: never to have a hurricane dubbed his “Katrina.”

That obsession became painfully evident this week as Trump, in the midst of preparing...

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