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[TRUMP] Apparently the Continental Army took over Airports during the Revolutionary War
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He's so meticulous. I'm sure he spent a lot of time preparing. You just know he has no idea what a rampart is.
Reposting my "analysis" from the politics OT -
To decipher the sentence, you need to remember that Trump always doubles down when he misspeaks rather than give any impression he made an error or even just moving past it.
The teleprompter likely said "The Army manned the ramparts at Fort McHenry". He misread ramparts as "airports", realised he screwed up, then tried to make it seem like he didn't by leaning into it and adding "it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do" before carrying on.
I haven't watched the video, but when he adds the ad libs his voice changes a bit higher and grander and he looks away from the prompter out to the crowd, so I assume he does this in the "it took over the airports,..." insertion, before returning to looking at the prompter, reading the script, and using his more regular drone.
To decipher the sentence, you need to remember that Trump always doubles down when he misspeaks rather than give any impression he made an error or even just moving past it.
The teleprompter likely said "The Army manned the ramparts at Fort McHenry". He misread ramparts as "airports", realised he screwed up, then tried to make it seem like he didn't by leaning into it and adding "it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do" before carrying on.
I haven't watched the video, but when he adds the ad libs his voice changes a bit higher and grander and he looks away from the prompter out to the crowd, so I assume he does this in the "it took over the airports,..." insertion, before returning to looking at the prompter, reading the script, and using his more regular drone.
He also thinks the busing issue that hounds Joe Biden is just all about school buses as a means to get kids to school in general. lol
As an outsider looking in, got to agree with this. I think Trump has done immeasurable damage to how the post of President, the highest office in the land is perceived.
I think the next President, even a Republican, could fix this if they wish. As much as people love to say it, no single man can take down the entire country and its legacy in just a few years. Trump is proof of this. It will blow over eventually. American cultural influence will ensure that.
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I know, the scary thing is Trump doesn't seem to acknowledge when he fucks up, just keeps going
Chris Lu @ChrisLu44
In addition to saying there were airports during the Revolutionary War, Trump claimed that the Fort McHenry events leading to the Star Spangled Banner occurred during the same war. It was the War of 1812
But sure, keep telling us how much you love America https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/04/independence-day-donald-trump-trips-up-revolutionary-war-history/1638531001/ …
This is a president too stupid to know what he's saying, a White House too incompetent to do basic factchecking, or someone with a serious reading problem.
11:27 PM - Jul 4, 2019
In addition to saying there were airports during the Revolutionary War, Trump claimed that the Fort McHenry events leading to the Star Spangled Banner occurred during the same war. It was the War of 1812
But sure, keep telling us how much you love America https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/04/independence-day-donald-trump-trips-up-revolutionary-war-history/1638531001/ …
This is a president too stupid to know what he's saying, a White House too incompetent to do basic factchecking, or someone with a serious reading problem.
11:27 PM - Jul 4, 2019
Funny how I look back at the total clusterfuck that was the Bush administration and think how cute and quaint it all was. In dark times like these the world needs more Bushisms.
You were right President Jr we absolutely "misunderestimated" you, we certainly did.
You were right President Jr we absolutely "misunderestimated" you, we certainly did.
That's because of the media rehabilitation. George Bush Jr caused just as much damage as Trump has. At least he hasn't started a war that killed a million people yet.
Thinking about it I do remember learning something about the airports in America during the revolution while doing history at school, Trump really knows his history.
We are still bitter to this day here in the UK that we lost those airports.
We are still bitter to this day here in the UK that we lost those airports.
Trump himself isn't even the worst we'll see this century, its the precedents he's set for the competent person who comes after him. Trump is Sulla to a Caesar who destroys the Republic.
I dunno. At least for me, not being American there was always this sense (stoked by your cultural exports no doubt) that the presidency required some level of gravitas, education, diplomacy; the fact you guys have trump sitting there, notionally in charge of you all just pulls back the curtain on what it takes to gain the oval office and the kind of people who actually have a chance. You don't need a brain, you don't need to be good at business, or trade or diplomacy, or history, or basic facts. You don't need gravitas or intelligence, or to be a good speaker, or even to be a fundamentally decent person.
Never thought I'd see the the day the potus conducts himself via poorly spelled Twitter rants and stumbles on his own nations basic history.
The Continental Army was so good that they wiped out the airports. They weren't even seen again until the 1900s.
I bet the Wright brothers great grandfather's were shitting themselves.
Q Anon boomers will shit themselves with joy.
Q Anon boomers will shit themselves with joy.
