The problem with Trump's Revolutionary War airports isn't the airports

[Roland99]

The problem with Trump’s Revolutionary War airports isn’t the airports
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/05/problem-with-trumps-revolutionary-war-airports-isnt-airports/

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A lot of people are misidentifying the problem, though. It's not the case that Trump wrote this speech and deliberately included a line about the famous Battle of Washington National. Instead, he was reading a prepared speech, stumbled repeatedly over what he was reading — and refused to acknowledge or correct those mistakes.

There are a number of slip-ups just in the section above. Instead of saying that the Continental Congress named George Washington commander in chief, which it did, Trump said for some reason that they named it after him, which they didn’t. He said that the winter of Valley Forge, not at Valley Forge, was difficult. Trump claimed that British Gen. Charles Cornwallis of Yorktown had victory snatched away from him instead of saying that Cornwallis lost at Yorktown. He said that the army manned . . . something, instead of presumably saying that American forces manned the ramparts at Fort McHenry. The fort’s ramparts are part of the national anthem, which Trump then alluded to twice more.

Update: On Friday morning, Trump told reporters that the teleprompter malfunctioned due to the rain.

Again, though, this is Trump’s approach. In speeches in particular, he will often misspeak and, instead of retracting what he said, will just say the proper thing afterward. He’ll generally include the word “and” as though both the incorrect and correct words were supposed to be in his remarks. Like, “it’s raining cats and frogs . . . and dogs.”

We are not the first to notice this.

[gratuitous]

1. Trump admitted to using a teleprompter?

Remember how it used to set the conservawhackos off when someone used a teleprompter, and the media actually treated their nuttiness as a valid point of view?

[lagomorph777]

2. The dementia does seem to be accelerating.

[C_U_L8R]

3. A rain malfunction wouldn't create complete sentences

Seem more like a brain malfunction.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. He's too vain to wear reading glasses.

Might have a touch of dyslexia as well as creeping dementia. Most importantly, he's too f&cking lazy to read or rehearse a speech written by someone else (as they always are), so he doesn't even know what's coming and instead reads whatever he thinks he sees on the page or the teleprompter, without even running it through his brain to determine whether it makes sense. But not much runs through his brain...

[Golden Raisin]

6. Or actually KNOW anything factual about either

the Revolutionary War or the War of 1812, without having someone else explain it to him or write it for him. His lack of even a rudimentary junior high school level education is astonishing and scary as Hell. And embarrassing!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Exactly. Even if the vain old fool couldn't read the text clearly

because he wouldn't wear his reading glasses, if he thought it said something about Washington capturing airports from the British, why wouldn't he have thought, "Hey, there were no airports in those days so I'd better say something else? Maybe just "ports"?" But he just said it, which can mean only that either he doesn't process what he reads, or that he didn't know that there weren't any airports in the late 18th century.

[ooky]

8. This.

[Everyman Jackal]

5. Sundowner Syndrome

When I lived in a condo complex in Margate Fl we had many people with dementia. I would talk with them in the morning and the symptoms of dementia were slight. As the day wore on, the symptoms got worse.