Donald Trump has insisted he is right - and meteorologists are wrong - over his repeated claim Hurricane Dorian could strike parts of Alabama. 

Forecasters, including the government’s own National Weather Service, were forced to correct the US president after he warned in a tweet on Sunday morning that Alabama would “most likely” be hit by the record-breaking tropical storm, which is currently devastating the Bahamas. 

“Alabama will NOT see any impacts from Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane Dorian will be felt across Alabama. The system will remain too far east,” the NWS tweeted.

Moments after the NWS tweet, Mr Trump again said the southern state would “get a piece” of the hurricane, and repeated the claim on Sunday afternoon during a Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) briefing.

On Monday evening, having apparently watched the segment from his golf course in Virginia, Mr Trump angrily claimed “lightweight reporter” Mr Karl had given a “phony (sic) hurricane report”. 

“I suggested yesterday at FEMA that, along with Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, even Alabama could possibly come into play, which WAS true,” Mr Trump tweeted. 

“They made a big deal about this when in fact, under certain original scenarios, it was in fact correct that Alabama could have received some ‘hurt.’ 

“Always good to be prepared! But the Fake News is only interested in demeaning and belittling. Didn’t play my whole sentence or statement. Bad people!”