People are posting hilarious #SharpieGate memes to mock Trump for displaying an altered map of Hurricane Dorian

The internet ruthlessly mocked President Donald Trump with the hashtag #SharpieGate after he posed on Wednesday with a map that appeared to have been altered with a Sharpie to incorrectly show Hurricane Dorian's trajectory extending into Alabama.

Trump has spent the past several days doubling down on a Sunday tweet that claimed, baselessly, that Alabama was in Dorian's path, writing that "in addition to Florida - South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated."

Read more: White House photo shows Trump being briefed with accurate Hurricane Dorian map before it was altered to include Alabama

Even after being rebuked by the National Weather Service, Trump continued to argue that it was initially possible for Alabama to be affected by Dorian, which left at least 20 people dead and leveled entire islands in the Bahamas over the weekend.

Rather than acknowledge the mistake, Trump attacked reporters and kept claiming that Alabama was initially forecast to be in Dorian's path — culminating in the altered map appearing in an Oval Office briefing broadcast on Twitter.

Here are some of the best #SharpieGate tweets and memes:

• Read more of Insider's coverage of Hurricane Dorian:
• Hurricane Dorian, again a Category 3 storm, heads for the Carolinas with possible 'life-threatening' flash floods
• 'The force of a thousand sledgehammers': A storm chaser trapped in the Bahamas during Dorian described the 'most intense' hurricane he'd ever witnessed
• Trump used a spaghetti plot to explain why he falsely said Hurricane Dorian would hit Alabama. Those charts shouldn't be read as forecasts.
• Waves caused by Hurricane Dorian are washing up bricks of cocaine on Florida beaches
• Hurricane Dorian is moving up the US coast, with Georgia and the Carolinas in its path. Here is where and when it's due to go next.