this is a new classic item that must be up there with bluto in animal house speaking about how the germans bombed pearl harbor;
Critics of President Donald Trump were
flying high Thursday after his jaw-dropping gaffe in his Independence
Day speech that the brave U.S. Army took over airports during the
Revolutionary War.
Trump, clearly reading from a teleprompter, talked about how the
Continental Congress in 1775 “created a unified Army out of the
Revolutionary Forces encamped around Boston and New York.” The army
suffered a “bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters
of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown,” Trump
said.
Here’s where it goes off the rails: “Our Army manned the air, it
rammed (or ‘rand’) the ramparts, it took over airports, it did
everything it had to do,” Trump added. “And at Fort McHenry, under the
rockets’ red glare, had nothing but victory. When dawn came, the
star-spangled banner waved defiant.”
https://twitter.com/The_UnSilent_/status/1146935227908014081
The White House did not provide Trump’s complete prepared speech, so
it wasn’t clear where exactly or how the the goof-up occurred. The
president suddenly zoomed ahead from the Revolutionary War to the War of
1812, which involved Fort McHenry (he called it “McHendry”)— and the
“rockets’ red glare” and the “star-spangled banner” of Francis Scott
Key’s national anthem. He seemed to be squinting while reading the
teleprompter and struggled with some of the words.
The nation’s maiden plane voyage by the Wright Brothers didn’t occur until 1903. Trump referred to that flight elsewhere in his speech.
Twitter foes were doing verbal loop-de-loops over the blunder. “Even
back then, there were always flight delays on Colonial Airways, since
there were no airplanes,” quipped one wag. Some takedowns involved
colonial fighters writing home to lovers about being stranded on
airplanes that didn’t yet exist............https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/trump-dive-bombed-in-tweets-after-claiming-army-seized-revolutionary-war-airports/249818
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