Trump will deny it and call it fake news. Than at the next campaign rally, he’ll brag about how he forced the NOAA to do his bidding. Then at a subsequent press conference when pressed on his campaign rally admission, he’ll say he was just kidding.
Trump at a campaign rally, “I says Mulvaney, we can’t have the NOAA saying this stuff. I told Mulvaney to get over there and threaten their jobs. And the NOAA recanted. Boy did they recant”.