President Donald Trump ended a baffling line of his Fourth of July speech with the assertion that Revolutionary War armies “took over airports” — which would have been quite a shock to the citizenry of the late-18th century who had not yet invented them.
In the most charitable explanation of the thoroughly confusing sentence, perhaps Trump was having trouble reading the teleprompter through the steady rain in Washington yesterday, or maybe his speechwriters had a few drinks before sending the final text of the speech.
Or maybe the Deep State infiltrated the teleprompter…
Not to mention Fort McHenry wasn’t built until well after the revolutionary war and renowned for its place in the War of 1812. But that would be fact-checking.
Not only no airports, but also no Fort McHenry. That was built later, and the battle there was War of 1812. Our president is a deranged moron.
This is a common misconception. The truth is that early Democrats used horse-drawn airports to transport kids from Comet Ping-Pong to colonial butter-churning events and other treasonous activities funded by a Colonel Soros.
More evidence. It’s time to move him from assisted living to the closed memory care unit. He can still have thermonuclear capability if it makes him happy.
The airports had to be commandeered to protect us from the Bowling Green massacre. It’s what Paul Revere was shouting about as he fired his second amendment solution muzzle loaded musket into the air again and again.
I guess Space Force didn’t come into existence until the Civil War then. Does anyone know?
“If you build it, they will come”
Airports were built in the mid-1700s because they knew Wilbur and Orville would come … eventually.
That’s just silly. Trump was obviously referring to airfields.
The Mongolfier brothers were French but they were also mercenary. For thirty pieces of silver, they sold their hot-air-balloon technology to the British, who used it to terrorize Americans – until Washington seized the airfields, putting an end to the foreign menace.
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That, too, of course.
In the photo with this story, i just noticed how white the people are. I see one POC and maybe one other from the neck down. And that one POC isn’t even listening to Trump, she’s looking at her phone.
Trump was auditioning for a role in the remake of Animal House … “Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”
True, but their first manned balloon flight wasn’t until 1783. However, successful hot-air balloon flights took place as early as 1709. Perhaps the British used unmanned balloons to drop bombs by remote control on the Americans. Some may have gone off prematurely: hence, “the bombs bursting in air”.
My dad and I noticed this right away, so we started counting.We noticed about 30 nonwhite people and a third of them were in uniform.
and of course twitter came to the rescue with some hilarious comments:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/RevolutionaryWarAirportStories?src=hash
It wasn’t the usual lock-her-up-no-collusion-fake-news fare though. With the aid of a teleprompter, the president spoke for 45 minutes about U.S. history, especially military history, or as he described it, “the greatest story ever told, the story of America.”
The greatest story ever told? Oy.
That was some dress Melania had on last night (pic from video shown at WaPo). 
Historians agree that the Revolutionary Army had to take over the airports because the TSA had not yet been established. Moreover, if I remember correctly, there was also a Red Cap strike at the time, resulting in endless traffic jams of taxis, vans and limos at terminals across the country as well as mountains of unchecked, untagged luggage. It was, in a word, brutal.
Trump: “Nobody knew that history could be so complicated.” Nobody!!!111!!!
Twitter had fun with the speech as usual. Nothing like a little humor to brighten the day.
I think it’s safe to say you don’t write Trump’s speeches!