Nixon had wanted to do this wityh TVs, but ultimately decided it was too Big Brotherish.
I don’t want mandatory messaging unless I request it. Now it is Trump, but someday there will be another Clinton or Obama.
This started with Overlord Obama:
“*WEA was technically launched in April of 2012*, but this will be the first time FEMA has tested the system on the presidential level in hopes to work out the kinks, the agency said in a press release this week. The presidential alert is one of three kinds of alerts in the FEMA’s WEA system, which also notifies the public about extreme weather or missing children, also known as AMBER alerts.”
It isn't Trump, it's Obama. It was Obama that made the decision to disable the option to turn off emergency messages from the president.