1月13日早上8点07-08分，每个夏威夷居民的手机上都跳出了一条紧急通知：

“紧急警报——弹道导弹飞向夏威夷。立即寻找掩体。这不是演习。”

13分钟后，夏威夷州众议员Rep. Tulsi Gabbard在自己的Twitter上说：THIS IS A FALSE ALARM. THERE IS NO INCOMING MISSILE TO HAWAII. I HAVE CONFIRMED WITH OFFICIALS THERE IS NO INCOMING MISSILE.

38分钟后，夏威夷的人们又收到了一条短信。

“紧急警报——夏威夷并未受到导弹威胁。重复一次。假警报。”

夏威夷人彻底蒙圈了。

人们求助万能的Google…

第二天早晨，川普总统发了一条Twitter:

So much Fake News is being reported. They don’t even try to get it right, or correct it when they are wrong. They promote the Fake Book of a mentally deranged author, who knowingly writes false information. The Mainstream Media is crazed that WE won the election!

（面对夏威夷政府这么低级的错误，引起人们这么大的恐慌。川普总统仍不忘借机抨击Michael Wolff的新书，而没有对虚假警报一事作任何解释。）

白宫随后发布了一条声明，称“The President has been briefed on the state of Hawaii’s emergency management exercise,” it read. “This was purely a state exercise.”

经夏威夷州相关部门调查，这条引发民众恐慌的假警报是由于正在做内部演习的一名政府员工误按了警报器导致的。