Trump bizarrely claims the army retook the airports from the British during Revolutionary war

[RandySF]

President Donald Trump appeared to stumble while reading his Fourth of July rally speech Thursday. When talking about the Revolutionary War, he talked about the successes of the U.S. Army closing the airports.

“In June of 1775 the Continental Congress created a unified Army out of the Revolutionary Forces encamped around Boston and New York, and named after the great George Washington, commander in chief,” Trump read in his speech. “The Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis at Yorktown. Our Army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over airports, it did everything it had to do and at Ft. McHenry under the rocket’s red glare had nothing but victory. When dawn came, the star-spangled banner waved defiant.”

Trump didn’t deviate from his prepared remarks so it’s unclear if that was in the prepared remarks or if he lost his place on the teleprompter.



https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/watch-trump-bizarrely-claim-the-army-retook-the-airports-from-the-british-during-revolutionary-war/

[dameatball]

1. To be honest, we could not have taken over the airports without the aid of the French air force

[Maraya1969]

54. Here's the direct link to the video on Twitter.

Link to tweet

And the revolutionary war was in 1776 right? There were no planes!

[RHMerriman]

61. He looks like he had a stroke...

Permanent grimacing, one shoulder up and hunched over...

[onethatcares]

113. the dolts at the ending

look like they absolutely agreed with him. he has the best words ya know...

[littlemissmartypants]

66. Ha!!

Vive La France!

[emmaverybo]

72. It was all due to Lafayette, a former WW I flying ace.

[littlemissmartypants]

74. Of course it was!

[PatrickforO]

91. Yes! When the Marquis de Lafayette was 157 years old, he

helped form the Lafayette Escadrille.

[emmaverybo]

95. 👏👏😂😂😂 Love the pic.

[MaryMagdaline]

103. You funny!

[Dave in VA]

2. I know it is acknowledging Raw Story...

but are you sure this isn't the Onion?

[NastyRiffraff]

38. He said it

It's on video and everything. Unmistakable. True, he was a bit confused, but the airports bit was clear.

[Brother Buzz]

46. Not the Onion

Link to tweet

[highplainsdem]

51. Rolling Stone has the story, too, and so do other sources:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-airports-revolutionary-war-855742/

[PatrickforO]

92. No, there's an actual video clip.

His stable brain singing in the rain, you know?

[trueblue2007]

100. HA HA HA...#RevolutionaryWarAirportStories is trending on twitter

[sarisataka]

3. Air power was key

To the US victory in the revolution. And the entire revolutionary effort pivoted around the battle at Ft McHenry.
It was the beginning of the end for the Germans who eventually surrendered at the Alamo

[PJMcK]

5. You're wrong

It wasn't air power, it was nuclear power. The Brits never had a chance with their muskets.

[sarisataka]

11. Of course our nukes

Allowed us to blast their submarines from the seas, ending the blockade that had starved our tanks of gas
Washington himself gave the order to Patton to counterattack the Japanese at the Bulge

[mercuryblues]

30. No it was the Sherman Tanks at Bowling Green

[Perseus]

62. You have the correct history

How can anyone forget the Bowling Green battle, it is still talked over the World...First war to ever use laser tag rifles.

[Generic Other]

65. I believe the airport was at Kittyhawk

Know your history or you will be doomed to repeat it.

[3Hotdogs]

96. On that one, you have to google, "Bowling Green Massacre."

[3Hotdogs]

98. In order to learn about it, you have to google, "Bowling Green Massacre."

Liberals tried to hide this awful event but Kellyanne wouldn't let 'em get away with it.

[PatrickforO]

93. Yes, the Bowling Green massacre!

A horrible, sad day for America.

[AllyCat]

97. Hey, wait a minute. Are you sure he isn't talking about playing Fallout 4?

[flying rabbit]

108. No

He would still be running around in the vault, celebrating his victory, oblivious to the fact there is a whole world out there. " I beat that game pretty quickly"

[AllyCat]

115. Trying Survival mode right now.

Beat it twice. Survival is a new animal. I wonder which vault he would think he ran?

[emmaverybo]

79. Stop! Laughing self crazy. 😂

[Midnight Writer]

89. I thought our planes ran on coal.

[underpants]

7. DUzy

[cwydro]

14. Bwahaha!

Literally laughing out loud.

[moose65]

37. You win the internet today!

I spewed Dr Pepper all over my iPad, thank you very much

[pangaia]

60. The Alamo? Don't you know your history? It was at Appomatox..which i cannot spell.

But i know where it is.. just west of the Little Big Horn River.

[gopiscrap]

69. you must be employed by trump

[Roland99]

70. Did we give up when the British bombed Pearl Harbor??

[emmaverybo]

73. Lol. /Nt

[reACTIONary]

87. +10 nt

[SeattleVet]

109. That must have been before the Germans...

bombed Pearl Harbor, but before Saddam Hussein flew the planes into the World Trade Center/

[PJMcK]

4. Hold on!

Trump's reference to Ft. McHenry doesn't make sense. He was talking about the Revolutionary War but the Star Spangled Banner was written about Ft. McHenry during the War of 1812.

Nothing this idiot ever says makes any sense whatsoever.

[nolabear]

15. This has not gone unnoticed.

Dragging is occurring. 😂

[underpants]

18. Well I think he took a 33 year leap in time here for dramatic effect

But let me tell you what I know, ramming ramparts (that are protecting you) and manning air ain't easy. Taking airports before the exist? Don't even get me started.

[PJMcK]

22. What I wonder is this

Do Trump's speechwriters know what they're writing about? This wasn't Trump making a mistake, I think. This was scripted and he seemed to have stayed on script for the most part.

Trump is an idiot surrounded by idiots.

[underpants]

24. He got lost.

See post below about reading glasses.
The rain may have had an effect. Not an excuse for that moron of course. President Bill Clinton Lost his TelePrompTer at a SOTU speech for several minutes and no one could tell. He had read and practiced the speech.

[StevieM]

33. That was actually his October 1993 address on health care reform where that happened. (eom)

[underpants]

36. Ok thanks

[jmowreader]

48. And it wasn't "a few minutes"

It was 45 minutes. Bill Clinton gave a 45-minute extemporaneous speech that actually made sense.

[Buckeyeblue]

117. Bill Clinton actually does have a very high IQ....

[Generic Other]

68. My sides ache from laughing

Is it possible the airports were really crop circles?

[underpants]

80. You've got it!!!!

[brush]

25. And Ft. McHenry is in Baltimore, not NY or Boston.

Enough with this dumb bell. Get his ass out. Even if that was written by some dumb staff member, he should know better and not read that aloud.

[mgardener]

90. How many of his supporters would know the difference

Not many.

[pangaia]

102. He was reading the entire thing....WHICH leads me to believe

maybe he was being pranked by his speech writer...

Plus he HAD to read it exactly in time for all the flyovers...

[GulfCoast66]

6. The Yorktown don't you know!

I posted this on another thread as a joke. But the more I think about it the more I believe it’s what he thought. He meant to say Aircraft carrier. You know, the battle of The Yorktown.

I mean, this is a guy who said, at a Lincoln dinner “who knew Lincoln was a Republican?”

The motherfucker doesn’t read and is not interested in anything that does not affect him.

And he came up at a Time for every American, no matter how stupid he had heard about the USS Yorktown.

I can’t believe I’m even posting this, but I think it’s totally possible.

[BootinUp]

8. Right up there with the greatest...

Bullshit artists of all time.

[sop]

21. The Michaelangelo of bullshit artists

[trueblue2007]

9. What a dumb guy. #TrumpTooStupidToBePresident

[cwydro]

10. "Rammed the ramparts" "Manned the air" ????

Omg,

[underpants]

13. Yea. See below.

[underpants]

12. 1) refuses to wear his reading glasses in public. 2) why would you ram ramparts protecting you?

ram·part
/ˈramˌpärt/
noun
plural noun: ramparts
1.
a defensive wall of a castle or walled city, having a broad top with a walkway and typically a stone parapet.

[cwydro]

23. Lol!

Truly hilarious even if it is so fucking tragic.

[ornotna]

35. Not buying it

Glasses for pages up close I'll buy. Teleprompter, not buying it.

[Brainfodder]

16. He was thinking of the Bowling Green Massacre, easy to confuse the two.

I was visiting family and one burst into laughter when they heard that AIRPORTS.

Was this Mr. Miller's accuracy be damned handy work?

[Elwood P Dowd]

17. Did he mention all the submarines shot out of the sky?

What about Lincoln leading the charge up San Juan Hill to take Hawaii back from the Brits?

What's sad is that most of the MAGATs won't even know Trump fucked up.

[underpants]

20. They'd BUHLEEVE him if he told them Lafayette was from Indiana and he created a Sharknado ....

that saved DC during the War of 1812.

[gopiscrap]

77. my wife says that one is the best

[emmaverybo]

83. "Submarines shot out of the sky." Brilliant. 👏

[Kid Berwyn]

19. Bankrupt Unstable Moron

You can tell people who don’t read.
They can’t read.
And they can’t be told — nor taught — anything new.

[neeksgeek]

26. It's as if Bluto Blutarsky is President!

“Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. Does he know that the defense of Ft. McHenry, the inspiration for

the Star Spangled Banner, was during the War of 1812 and not the Revolution? (Of course he doesn't.) Or was that when the US took over the airports from the British?

[Hoyt]

28. Had we lost the Revolutionary War, we'd at least have national health coverage.

Slavery would have ended sooner too.

[struggle4progress]

29. A monument to the famous "Airport of Blood" is coming to a golf course near you soon!

?resize=599,343

[KY_EnviroGuy]

31. "Our Army manned the air?"

Never knew they had jet packs and wingsuits back in the day!....... ....... .......

[Botany]

32. So did General Grant use his Sherman tanks take the British airport @ the battle of Bowling Green?

I think Trump has a mole inside his organization that puts stupid stuff into his speeches
just to fuck w/him.

" .... it rammed the ramparts ..."

[edbermac]

34. My great grandparents are still looking for their lost luggage.

[Roland99]

75. lol

[Zambero]

39. And of course the Space Force

All would have been lost without those deadly laser beams raining down on the Tory airports!

[Poiuyt]

40. Are we talking about the Revolutionary War or the War of 1812?

And was the army named after George Washington?

[pangaia]

104. fried green tomatoes

[klook]

41. "They rammed the ramparts and wagged the wagon parts...

They carted the car parts and hemmed the hemp hearts.

One if by land, two if by jing. Now kneel on your kneecaps, for I am your king.”

[CatMor]

42. Did our army man the air ...

with those invisible airplanes he talks about.

[Nay]

43. If this doesn't trigger the use of the 25th Amendment, nothing will. This creature

is demented. Or so profoundly stupid that he shouldn't be able to stand up.

[jberryhill]

44. Rammed the ramparts?

[NBachers]

45. F minus

[H2O Man]

47. It's true.

You can't name one British airport that stood by the middle of the Revolutionary War.

Recommended, of course.

[Takket]

49. drumpf was clearly watching Cowboys vs. Aliens

while writing his speech

[Vinca]

50. And it was long before the Bowling Green Massacre my friends.

[Historic NY]

52. Continental Air Force, Washington's Flying circus.

[Generic Other]

106. Here he is on the tarmac

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Jarqui]

53. "Stupid is as stupid does"

All we needed was Tom Hanks and Robin Wright in the wading pool.

Life seemed stranger than fiction today with that July 4th caper.

[tblue37]

55. He also conflated the Revolutionary War with the War of 1812, saying that when the dawn

came after the retaking of the airports, the flag was still there.

[napi21]

56. I'm so ashamed that he is playing president.

My DIL just became an American citizen. he's from Romania. I HOPE she didn't watch this disgusting speech!

[KentuckyWoman]

57. Thank you for the script

I have listened to 4 different copies of the video and could not catch all the words.

My husband is sick and this will give him a chuckle. Thanks.

[mainstreetonce]

58. Jefferson Airplane

What a historically correct name!

[underpants]

84. I had never seen this picture before today and now you mentioned them. ✅

[YOHABLO]

59. Does he even go over the speeches that are written for him? It really is unbelievable.

[subterranean]

86. I don't think he does. Does anyone else?

It makes me wonder if the speech writer (or some intern prankster) knew nobody would check it and decided to slip the part about the airports in just for laughs.

[pangaia]

105. I wonder if the whole fucking speech wasn;t a brilliant prank...

[DesertRat]

63. kick

[yaesu]

64. and he didn't even mention the Pork & Beans War of 1838 with Canada, the nut is slipping. nt

[gopiscrap]

67. the Star Spangled Banner was from a different war

the war of 1812

[Aussie105]

71. Drones and Nukes

played a big part in the glory of the 1775 Revolutionary battles too.

Why did he not mention those?

Yeah, but it showed those pesky British! (Or were they Canadian, or Mexican forces? French maybe? Trump is not clear on that either.)

Those airports the Army took over need plaques to commemorate the historic events that took place there.
Somebody, get onto that!

But Trump, being recently new to any sort of interest in US history, finds it all so confusing. Poor dear!

[Totally Tunsie]

94. Surely, someone must have it on their cellphone...

and don't call me Shirley!

[VOX]

76. The airport seizure occurred in Bowling Green, allowing Churchill to defeat Caesar AND Jeb Stuart.

And what a massacre it was.

[Aussie105]

88. Yep.

The Bowling Green battles and subsequent massacre, the maneuvering between opposite sides, the ebb and flow of those skirmishes, the final outcome of that long, protracted campaign . . . history is majorly complex!

Seriously . . . I hope that some future historian watching today is taking careful notes of the slow decline of both the POTUS and insanity in the GOP for his future best seller.
No fiction needed, you couldn't make this stuff up anyway. Not the best screen writer or fiction writer in the world could come up with this stuff.
Bizarro world. You are living it.

[VOX]

118. I have not lived in weirder times than these.

The rule of law means nothing in the nation’s highest offices. The grifting is done in plain sight. Republican-based fascism had been creeping, but with 45, it’s galloping.

Misinformation/disinformation is a daily (and often hourly) occurrence. Far too many Americans actually support this overt criminality, knowingly or otherwise. “Owning the libs” is a mission statement.

George Orwell and Rod Serling were either incredible visionaries or rank amateurs— the jury’s still out.

[appalachiablue]

78. Valley Forge, then Ft. McHenry. Combine 2 wars, novel approach

[Crunchy Frog]

81. And plenty of penicillin for those diseases that soldiers are susceptible to.

[area51]

82. Some may laugh,

but Donnie has access to the "nuclear football"; time for a psychiatric evaluation stat.

[democratisphere]

85. Why didn't Orville and Wilbur do a flyover?

[Historic NY]

107. Redenbacher?

He was dropping the manna from the heavens

[patphil]

99. Even the fabric of space time is being affected by Trump's lies.

He needs to be stopped before history descends into chaos.

[pangaia]

101. The army was "... named after the great George Washington, .." OH !

I never knew that..

[Buns_of_Fire]

110. Total bullshit. The Continental Army had control of the airports

LONG before Valley Forge. This deprived the British of easily sending in replacement troops, so they had to rely on large carriers like the Lusitania, which we disabled in Havana Harbor.

[pansypoo53219]

111. does not matter, his minions don't know anything other than fux gnewz. WOW! washington saved the

airports too!

[moondust]

112. Preznut Trump led the charge on Heathrow.

He never talks about it because he's not one to boast. Everyone says he deserves a Medal of Honor banquet but he's so humble he awarded it to himself in a private ceremony with no fancy parade or anything.

So brave.

[bucolic_frolic]

114. In Alzheimer's Disease this characteristic is called CONFABULATION

blending time periods together

"Confabulation is a memory error defined as the production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive.[1] People who confabulate present incorrect memories ranging from "subtle alterations to bizarre fabrications",[2] and are generally very confident about their recollections, despite contradictory evidence.[3]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation

[Everyman Jackal]

116. It is fun to make fun of him

until you realize that he is CiC and we have over 1,700 active nuclear weapons.