Donald Trump

Today, the president doctored a map of Hurricane Dorian's impact to pretend his earlier comments about the storm affecting Alabama were correct. Almost immediately after, he denied doing any such thing.

He also told reporters that vice president Mike Pence did not stay at his Ireland property at his request, which is a lie, according to earlier statements from Mr Pence.

Days on which Donald Trump tweets more than 35 times are regularly associated with negative stock market returns while days on which the president tweets five times or fewer yield positive results, according to a new study by Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Vice president Mike Pence is meanwhile under fire for staying at a Trump-owned golf resort in Doonbeg on the Atlantic coast during his trip to Ireland, forcing him to fly 181 miles across the country to attend meetings with the country's leaders in Dublin.

Back in the US, the Pentagon has given the go-ahead for $3.6bn (£2.9bn) to be diverted towards the president's US-Mexico border wall from 127 different military construction project while Hurricane Dorian approaches the Florida coast after decimating the Bahamas.

Later in the evening, Democrats discussed climate change in a CNN town hall with Wolf Blitzer. The president will likely use the event to continue to deny climate change.