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Trump blames 'airports' gaffe on teleprompter
BBC News ^ | 5th July 2019 | BBC News

Posted on 07/05/2019 9:51:58 AM PDT by Ennis85

US President Donald Trump has blamed a teleprompter going "kaput" for a glaring anachronism in his Fourth of July speech.

He told crowds on Independence Day the Continental Army "took over the airports" from the British during the American Revolutionary War in 1775.

Explaining away the slip-up on Friday, Mr Trump also said it was hard to read the teleprompter in the rain.

He hosted a military parade at the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday.

During his "Salute to America" speech, he was talking about the year 1775 when he said: "Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do."

Critics pointed out the revolutionaries could not have seized airports more than a century before the first powered flight - credited to the Wright brothers in 1903 - took off.

Outside the White House on Friday, Mr Trump said: "I guess the rain knocked out the teleprompter.

"I knew the speech very well so I was able to do it without a teleprompter but the teleprompter did go out and it was actually hard to look at anyway because there was rain all over it."

The president spoke to reporters as he departed with First Lady Melania Trump for the weekend to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

Mr Trump said the military parade he hosted on Thursday was a "fantastic night" and forecast a rise in US military recruitment.

Before winning the White House, Mr Trump used to mock ex-President Barack Obama for relying on an autocue.

Twitter users were quick to poke fun at Mr Trump for the error, with many using the hashtag #RevolutionaryWarAirports.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
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To: right way right

The people seated behind him during the speech appeared to be all White. I thought they would jump all over that, too.


21 posted on 07/05/2019 10:07:00 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: Ennis85

The MSM will run with this for years since they don’t have anything else to do.


22 posted on 07/05/2019 10:09:00 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Ennis85

So airports should have been ports. Honest mistake. There were at least a couple hundred factoids in that magnificent speech. He got 1 wrong ? He needs to be impeached, obviously.


23 posted on 07/05/2019 10:12:05 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: G Larry

I mentioned the 57 state comment to those on Facebook complaining about yesterday’s speech. The silence is deafening.


24 posted on 07/05/2019 10:13:00 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: Ennis85

As far as I am concerned President Trump’s critics can all go to hell.


25 posted on 07/05/2019 10:14:00 AM PDT by sport
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To: Ennis85

“took over the airports”

Hmmmm.....knowing President Trump past gaffes only to learn they were intentional gaffes. Is President Trump telling us that all airports are under surveillance for possible flight risk out of the country by certain corrupt people?

Also did anyone hear President Trump mock Sheila Jackson Lee by saying Space Force will be able to place a flag on Mars something to the effect?


26 posted on 07/05/2019 10:14:34 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Back in 2008 when Obama was campaigning for President, he spoke at Grand Junction, Colorado, and mispronounced the name of the Ute tribe. He pronounced it "You-tay."

There was even an FR thread on it, started by FR member Mamzelle:

Did Obama really say "You-tay" for the Ute Tribe?

27 posted on 07/05/2019 10:17:56 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Ennis85

Ahhh, the Brits are still PO’d about the American Revolution.


28 posted on 07/05/2019 10:20:55 AM PDT by myerson
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To: MortMan

the media looks at the bots and morons on twitter for their news now a day. That’s when I see a story on some “outrage” it’s always quoting tweets.


29 posted on 07/05/2019 10:25:20 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Ennis85
Trumps mind was thinking about the timing of the planes and music for each military service. This was no ordinary speech. I love the man.

the propaganda press cannot allow their readers/viewers to see any of Trump’s entire speeches or rallies. The Baltimore Sun’s front page article about the speech was anti-Trump in four of its six paragraphs while making their fake-news point that he wasn’t as bad as he usually is. I despise the dishonest media.

30 posted on 07/05/2019 10:27:52 AM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever! 2016)
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To: mass55th

Nobody would call out Obama on his gaffes.

Maybe a trivial example, but Obama once said he was a White Sox fan, and said he saw them play at “Cominsky Park”, prounouncing it with an “N” in it.

Every real White Sox fan knows they played at “Comiskey Park”, which has no “N” in it.

I remember too at that occasion, Obama was visiting with sports reporters who cover the White Sox, and Obama said he was a big White Sox fan. When asked, Obama could not name a favorite player, past or present.


31 posted on 07/05/2019 10:30:19 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Ennis85

bump


32 posted on 07/05/2019 10:31:35 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Ennis85

They record everything he says, then examine it to find something to get him on. They never did that for clinton or bammy.


33 posted on 07/05/2019 10:34:04 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Ennis85

Well maybe there weren’t any airports in 1776. But I know one thing for damned sure. If there had been, we would have taken them too!


34 posted on 07/05/2019 10:42:55 AM PDT by KyCats
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To: Ennis85

Remember The West Wing— the TV show?
One episode had the fictional President Josiah Bartlett taking heat for misreading the teleprompter.

Instead of reading “stronger than ever” he took credit for “an America that is stranger than ever.”


35 posted on 07/05/2019 10:48:48 AM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Democrats are panderers. I remember when John Kerry called the Green Bay Packers’ home stadium Lambert Field rather than Lambeau Field.


36 posted on 07/05/2019 10:49:58 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Ennis85
Who wants to tell the BBC no one cared??


37 posted on 07/05/2019 10:49:59 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Ennis85
"Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do."

It bought a Dodge, too.


38 posted on 07/05/2019 10:51:34 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Right_in_Virginia

Thank you for the pictures, they are fantastic!


39 posted on 07/05/2019 10:53:09 AM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Ennis85
Trump has already acknowledged the error. Obama still apparently believes there are "inhalators."

ML/NJ

40 posted on 07/05/2019 11:01:20 AM PDT by ml/nj
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