Trump blames rain and teleprompter for his July 4 speech gaffe about airports during the American Revolution yhoo.it/2LFkBJB by
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President Trump blames a rained-on teleprompter for his Fourth of July speech gaffe
In his July 4th address, Trump said the Continental Army “took over the airports” during the American Revolutionary War, however, that was long before an aircraft ever took flight. On Friday, the president said the teleprompter went out “right in the middle of that sentence.”
Video via @Channel4NewsPresident Trump blames a rained-on teleprompter for his Fourth of July speech gaffe
The Independence Day speech flub
Donald Trump mocked for saying the Continental Army took over the airports in 1781—122 years before Wright Brothers' first flight
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In his July 4th speech, Trump praised the Americans’ military efforts in the war against Great Britain: "Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports..." mag.time.com/cD6BXqH
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Fact check: there were no airports during the Revolutionary War. The Wright Brothers “achieved the first successful airplane flights on December 17, 1903” according to the National Park Service. nps.gov/wrbr/index.htm
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President Trump: "The Continental Army suffered a bitter winner at Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown. Our Army manned the air, it ran the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do."
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He also seems to imply that Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown in 1781 was related to the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore in 1814 (an entirely different war).
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Trump just said the army took over the airports during the Revolutionary War.
That’s, um, 127 years before the airplane was invented. twitter.com/terri2uus/stat…
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President Trump says the teleprompter went out
“The teleprompter went out, it kept going off…and that’s not a good feeling.”
Donald Trump explains how he slipped up during a speech - and ended up saying the 1775 revolutionary army “took over airports.”
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So, if TRUMP is claiming he knew the speech well enough to deliver it from memory (even with the Teleprompter malfunctioning), does that mean that the Revolutionary Army airports bit was in the prepared text?
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TRUMP BLAMES THE TELEPROMPTER: Asked just now about the bizarre assertion in his July 4 speech that the Revolutionary Army "took over airports," TRUMP says "the rain knocked out the Teleprompter, but I knew the speech very well, so I was able to do it without a Teleprompter."
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Here's why people are writing 'TelePrompTer'
The stylization of "teleprompter" as "TelePrompter" is a reference to a 2015 Tweet from the president.
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President Trump has previously been critical of others' use of teleprompters
Flashback to what past Trump said about prompters: “I’ve always said, if you run for president, you shouldn’t be allowed to use teleprompters, because you don’t even know if the guy is smart.”
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POTUS says the prompter went out at his July 4 event: "I guess the rain knocked out the teleprompter, but I knew the speech very well. So I was able to do it without a teleprompter. But the teleprompter went out."
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" It's tough work reading all those speeches from a teleprompter. Real leaders lead. Like you Donald!! Please run !!" Thank you
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" You would be the most straightforward Prez weve ever had. I dont see you reading prepared speeches off a teleprompter"
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Hillary Clinton made a speech today using the biggest teleprompter I have ever seen. In fact, it wasn't even see through glass, it was black
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