Watch: In 1775, the revolutionary forces took over airports, said Donald Trump in his July 4 speech
‘The President routinely says things that would result in a 5th grader flunking an oral presentation on the American Revolution.’
Here’s Trump claiming American troops secured airports during the Revolutionary War. #SaluteToAmerica pic.twitter.com/DiJDLWcDYb
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 5, 2019
On July 4, the United States President Donald Trump made a grave error at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC on the occasion of the country’s Independence Day. In his address, Trump said that during the United States’ War of Independence in 1775, the Revolutionary Forces took over the country’s airports.
The Wright Brothers are credited with inventing flying in 1903.
“Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory,” Trump said in his July 4 address.
Twitter users also picked up another historical error that Trump made in his speech. The Battle of Fort McHenry was part of the war of 1812 and not the 1775 American War of Independence.
Trump’s historical errors became fodder for multiple jokes on social media.
Americans taking back our airports during the Revolutionary War at Fort McHenry, a whole 127 years before airplanes were invented! 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/LGrZYKQzW5
— Darlene (@darlngal) July 5, 2019
Quite extraordinary
— nazir afzal (@nazirafzal) July 5, 2019
Airports!! In the 18th Century?
Fort McHenry wasn’t built at that time
“Star Spangled Banner” was 1814
Trump is losing it.. if he ever had it at all#RainOnTrumpsParade https://t.co/HlHr6KLSpI
Washington’s army took over the airports AND Fort McHenry... so that’s how we won the War of 1812, on July 4th 1776, despite Washington being dead and all.
— Kathleen Churchyard (@wisherseries) July 5, 2019
Any questions? pic.twitter.com/JmzGS0dbak
Continental troops seizing Fort McHenry International Airport from General Cornwallis, 1781 (colorized) pic.twitter.com/kic99F6s9M
— Bob Heaney (@BobHeaney3) July 5, 2019
Grade: F
— Mike Duncan (@mikeduncan) July 5, 2019
Comments: "The Delaware Crossing came before Valley Forge. The British general's name was not "Cornwallis OF Yorktown." Airports did not exist yet. It is "Fort McHenry" not "Fort McHenried" and also that was A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WAR. I'm going to call your parents."