Whoever knowingly publishes a counterfeit weather forecast published by the Weather Bureau shall be fined or imprisoned or both.

Ahhhh sheeeeeeeeeeit. Now he did it.

My goodness....NOAA made the same prediction the VERY NEXT DAY

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2019/DORIAN_graphics.php?product=5day_cone_with_line

It 's not about the prediction, it's about the sharpie alteration done by the WH that was not part of the official NOAA report.

You might want to read the law again. The specific portion "issues or publishes". Trump didn't issue a report, nor did he publish a report.