Former Canadian PM Kim Campbell says on Twitter she hopes for ‘direct hit’ on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort by hurricane

Campbell made the remark in response to news that Hurricane Dorian could potentially strike the east coast of Florida early on Tuesday

She has since deleted the tweet, two days after it was posted, and apologised to ‘all it offended’

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President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida is potentially sitting directly in the path of Hurricane Dorian. Photo: AP

Published: 8:50am, 31 Aug 2019Updated: 9:01am, 31 Aug 2019

A powerful storm has formed in the Atlantic, threatening Florida and parts of the Bahamas. But another one formed on Twitter this week, after a former Canadian prime minister tweeted that she hoped Hurricane Dorian would strike US President Donald Trump’s resort in Palm Beach.

Forecasters are closely watching Dorian, which could potentially strike the east coast of Florida early on Tuesday as a Category 4 hurricane.

But in a since-deleted tweet, former Canadian prime minister Kim Campbell responded to news of the threat by exclaiming, “I’m rooting for a direct hit on Mar a Lago!”

The next day, she said that she wished it would “shake up Trump’s climate change denial!”

On Friday, Campbell deleted the original message about Mar-a-Lago taking a hit, two days after it was initially posted and apologised “to all it offended.”

“I shd know better,” she wrote. “Mea culpa.”