Donald Trump Roasted Over Airport Gaffe During Salute To Revolutionary War; His Explanation: “Teleprompter Went Out” – Updated

UPDATED with Trump addressing airports remark: President Donald Trump took some lumps over Thursdays remark about Continental Army taking over the airpots during the Revolutionary War in 1775. Today he explained what happened.

“Yeah, the teleprompter went out,” POTUS told reporters this morning. “It kept going on. And then, at the end, it just went out. It went kaput. So I could have said — and, actually, right in the middle of that sentence, it went out. And thats not a good feeling, when youre standing in front of millions of millions of people on television. And, I dont know what the final count was, but that went all the way back to the Washington Monument. And I guess the rain knocked out the teleprompter.”

Well, that settles that.

Happily, he did not go on to suggest that the same thing happened to President Lincoln as he delivered the Gettysburg Address.

PREVIOUSLY, 8:15 a.m.: The President told reporters today as he was about to board Air Force One that yesterdays rain interfered with his Salute to America teleprompter and that he occasionally had to wing the speech, seeming to suggest that the “airport” comment might have been one of those moments. But then he insisted that he knew the speech so well that he didnt need the teleprompter.

Rain or no, critics of Donald Trump are in no holiday mood to cut the president any slack whatsoever after his attention-grabbing Salute To America yesterday – one pundit today compared him to an angry grandpa reading his grandsons fifth-grade history report – but the easiest gaffe to pick on was Trumps assertion that the Continental Army of 1775 “manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports.”

Faster than you can say, “Must I check my musket?”, social media responded with jibes and swipes at Trumps bizarre mangling of history. There were a few other foul-ups – British Gen. Charles Cornwallis was not of Yorktown but rather lost there – but it was the image of air traffic controllers in tricorn hats that proved most irresistible to the wiseacres.

Heres a sampling:

Dear @realDonaldTrump, It just occurred to me that you & my great, great, great grandpappy were on the same flight in 1812. The family stories of the emergency landing during the red flare are absolutely riveting. Just curious, what time do you start sundowning? xoBette #BeBette

— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) July 5, 2019

Apparently we took La Guardia Airport from the Brits in 1776 and have been trying to give it back for 243 years.

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) July 5, 2019

TRUMP IS LYING!!!! JET FUEL CANT MELT STEEL MUSKETS!!! THE 1776 ATTACK ON AIRPORTS WAS AN INSIDE JOB!!!#airports

— The Levine Machine (@Eitanthegoalie) Read More – Source

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