Social media outrage as Sessions calls Hawaii 'island in the Pacific'

By Angela Moon
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Social media did not take kindly to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions referring to the country’s 50th state of Hawaii as just “an island in the Pacific.”
Using the hashtag #IslandinthePacific, many on Twitter reminded Sessions that Hawaii is in fact part of the country, the birthplace of former President Barack Obama and home to Pearl Harbor.
Sessions told “The Mark Levin Show” earlier this week that he was “amazed