Posted on 07/05/2019 9:51:58 AM PDT by Ennis85
US President Donald Trump has blamed a teleprompter going "kaput" for a glaring anachronism in his Fourth of July speech.
He told crowds on Independence Day the Continental Army "took over the airports" from the British during the American Revolutionary War in 1775.
Explaining away the slip-up on Friday, Mr Trump also said it was hard to read the teleprompter in the rain.
He hosted a military parade at the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday.
During his "Salute to America" speech, he was talking about the year 1775 when he said: "Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do."
Critics pointed out the revolutionaries could not have seized airports more than a century before the first powered flight - credited to the Wright brothers in 1903 - took off.
Outside the White House on Friday, Mr Trump said: "I guess the rain knocked out the teleprompter.
"I knew the speech very well so I was able to do it without a teleprompter but the teleprompter did go out and it was actually hard to look at anyway because there was rain all over it."
The president spoke to reporters as he departed with First Lady Melania Trump for the weekend to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Mr Trump said the military parade he hosted on Thursday was a "fantastic night" and forecast a rise in US military recruitment.
Before winning the White House, Mr Trump used to mock ex-President Barack Obama for relying on an autocue.
Twitter users were quick to poke fun at Mr Trump for the error, with many using the hashtag #RevolutionaryWarAirports.
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Worst production of a speech I’ve ever seen. Didn’t they have a squeegee and a couple of towels to wipe of the protective barrier? You could barely see the President!
The President rewrote a little bit of history - so what?
The Left rewrites history all the time - it’s about time we had a leader who fights fire with fire. Besides, President Trump always turns out to be right.
Oh boy are they going to have egg on their faces when it turns out there WERE airports back then!!
Dear BBC News:
Y’all should thank us after the war of Independence. Why you may ask? You’re lucky we didn’t take over Canada too.
Oh, wait a minute...
5.56mm
Well, you gotta admit, if the Kenyan had said the same we’d be riding his ass hard.....
“Well, you gotta admit, if the Kenyan had said the same we’d be riding his ass hard.....”
Errr.... ummm.... don’t think so, not really my type.
Too funny - I heard it when he said it and knew it for what it was...looks like they will go all Mueller on hm with anything they can pick among the nits.
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