--- title: Trump And His Sharpie Gave Late Night Hosts Lost of Material description: The late night talk show hosts found a lot of humor in Donald Trump and his Sharpie. canonical: https://time.com/5669764/trump-sharpie-memes/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-09-05T15:50:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-14T08:24:40.513Z og:title: Trump and His Hurricane Dorian Map Display Gave Everyone a Lot of Material og:description: The late night talk show hosts found humor in the situation og:url: https://time.com/5669764/trump-sharpie-memes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt93bf62f876381563/698a025ee76ad2f135636656/trump-dorian-alabama-sharpie.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: President Trump Receives Briefing On Hurricane Dorian At White House og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump and His Hurricane Dorian Map Display Gave Everyone a Lot of Material twitter:description: The late night talk show hosts found humor in the situation twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt93bf62f876381563/698a025ee76ad2f135636656/trump-dorian-alabama-sharpie.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trump Gets Roasted for Hurricane Dorian Map With Plenty of Sharpie Jokes > Sponsored content. 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In response to a reporter's question about the sharpie markings, he said "I don't know. I don't know. I don't know."_ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 5, 2019 3:50 PM UTC In response to a reporter's question about the sharpie markings, he said "I don't know. I don't know. I don't know." by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 5, 2019 3:50 PM UTC President Donald Trump seemed to double down yesterday on his [false comments that Alabama](https://time.com/5669115/trump-hurricane-dorian-alabama-sharpie/) was in the path of [Hurricane Dorian](https://time.com/5666978/hurricane-dorian-speed/). Following these comments, Trump displayed the National Hurricane Center’s original weather forecast chart for the [devastating storm](https://time.com/5669488/hurricane-dorian-bahamas-death-toll/) with what appeared to be a small addition to the hurricane’s potential cone of impact drawn on in Sharpie. After the internet had its fun with the official doodle, and the National Weather Service corrected the president, [tweeting](https://twitter.com/NWSBirmingham/status/1168179647667814400) that Alabama “will NOT see any impacts” from the storm, the late night talk show hosts got in a few good jabs of their own. On _The Late Show_, Stephen Colbert managed to get two days’ worth of material out of the president’s response to [Hurricane Dorian](https://time.com/5666978/hurricane-dorian-speed/), mentioning it both [Tuesday](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYnasJjjx4g&t=6s) and Wednesday night. He even came up with a tagline for this Sharpie-driven news. “Because of the fact that the president misrepresented where the water would go, I’m calling this scandal ‘Water-gate.’ Trademark,” he joked. Colbert wasn’t satisfied with just a new trademark, though, and took things further. “It must be so easy to play poker with this guy,” he said, continuing as Trump: “‘Let me just see what I’ve got here. Let me see. I don’t, I don’t know. I don’t know. I do not — I do not have three queens. I do not have — I do not have three queens. Or, if anyone has a Sharpie, I do not have four queens.” On _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_, Jimmy Kimmel thinks Trump is testing boundaries. “He’s not even trying to hide the lies anymore,” Kimmel said. “Not only do we have fake news, we now have fake weather, too. I’m hoping we get fake sports, because I want to see the Mets win the World Series.” Kimmel also suggested that Trump thinks “we’re a bunch of idiots,” surmising that the president thought to himself, “‘Hey, they elected me president — let’s see what other dumb crap they’ll go for.’” > [](https://twitter.com/LateNightSeth/status/1169407294909702146) On _Late Night_, Seth Meyers found Trump’s Sharpie-strewn hurricane map so convincing that it had him re-thinking some of Trump’s prior claims. “I mean, after this, I have to wonder if his high school report card was legit,” he joked. > [](https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1169403098755981313) For his part, _Daily Show_ host Trevor Noah was amazed with Trump’s display, but perhaps not in a way that the president would appreciate. “Did he draw with a Sharpie?” Noah asked, laughing. “I mean, don’t get me wrong — I’m impressed that Trump can locate Alabama on a map,” Noah said. “But still, the president of the United States just changed the map with a Sharpie to make himself look right and he thought we wouldn’t notice.” Noah added that Trump was either trying to prove himself right “or he wanted to give the hurricane bigger boobs.” See some of the Trump sharpie that kept rolling in below. > [](https://twitter.com/carriesmith1123/status/1169355778957991938) > [](https://twitter.com/mark%5Fnovata/status/1169357739711242240) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5669764/trump-sharpie-memes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5669764/trump-sharpie-memes/"},"headline":"Trump Gets Roasted for Hurricane Dorian Map With Plenty of Sharpie Jokes","datePublished":"2019-09-05T15:50:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-14T08:24:40.513Z","description":"The late night talk show hosts found a lot of humor in Donald Trump and his Sharpie.","url":"https://time.com/5669764/trump-sharpie-memes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Donald Trump","Late Night Television","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt93bf62f876381563/698a025ee76ad2f135636656/trump-dorian-alabama-sharpie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt93bf62f876381563/698a025ee76ad2f135636656/trump-dorian-alabama-sharpie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Trump Receives Briefing On Hurricane Dorian At White House","caption":"President Trump Receives Briefing On Hurricane Dorian At White House","creditText":"Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5669764/trump-sharpie-memes/","name":"Trump Gets Roasted for Hurricane Dorian Map With Plenty of Sharpie Jokes"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"President Trump Addresses Sharpie on Map of Hurricane Dorian Trajectory","description":"In response to a reporter's question about the sharpie markings, he said \"I don't know. 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