The teleprompter did it
Trump says the teleprompter fell over right at that place and that’s why he said the sojers took over the airports in 1775. Totally the teleprompter’s fault.
President Donald Trump — who used to mock predecessor Barack Obama for using the devices during speeches — said Friday that technical problems with the teleprompter during his “Salute to America” led to his head-scratching remarks about the Continental Army securing not-yet existent “airports” during the Revolutionary War.
How does that work exactly?
Trump, speaking to reporters on the White House lawn en route to his property in Bedminster, New Jersey, acknowledged Friday he had some technical problems because of the soggy conditions during his speech.
“We had a lot of rain. I stood in the rain. The teleprompter went out,” he said in response to a question from NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell. “It kept going on, and then at the end, it just went out. It went kaput!”
One of those moments was in the passage about 1775, he said.
“Actually right in the middle of that sentence, it went out. And that’s not a good feeling. You’re standing in front of millions of millions of people on television and I don’t know what the final count was but that (the crowd) went all the way back to the Washington Monument.”
Ok, but how do you get from that to airports in 1775? I mean, I don’t believe him anyway, I don’t believe the teleprompter did go out. He went right on reading from it, for one thing. But even if I did, how does that take him to “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 rocket’s red glare it had nothing but victory”?
The teleprompter screen had been “hard to look at anyway cause it was raining all over it.”
But Trump said he wasn’t letting the rain dampen his spirits about the event.
“I do the speech very well, so I was able to do it without a teleprompter, but the teleprompter did go out,” he said.
He do the speech very well.
No he do not do the speech very well. Not at all. He do the speech like a barely literate airhead from another planet. He do the speech like a robot. He do the speech like someone unaccustomed to words and thinking. He do the speech like a golf club with a blond wig on top.
Teleprompter or not, don’t most people making a speech practice a few times?
Words? Thinking? Those are for LOSERS. Those are for elitist eggheady intellectual snobs that are weak, effeminate sissies that wouldn’t know a tank if it rolled over them!
Doesn’t this stupid excuse just make him sound dumber? When forced to extemporize, he comes up with airports during the Revolutionary War?
Ben – yeah, pretty much. The POTUS needs a teleprompter to inform that there were no airports in the 18th century
Not that I expect Trump to have known this, but Fort McHenry couldn’t have played any role in the Revolutionary War. It was constructed in 1798, and is famous because of its role in the War of 1812, and our national anthem, which it inspired.
Oh, but, there were millions and millions out there in the straotsphere just waiting for me to give them My version of the history of MY country that I am now the king of, doncha know???
I think this comes into that category of things Trump knows that other people don’t know.
And Fort McHenry was scarcely a victory. The bombs burst in the air because the water was too shallow for the mortar ships to actually hit the fort. The rockets were glaring because they were being launched from small boats in an attempt to do some damage. Almost the only deaths that night happened when a rocket boat caught fire.
Meanwhile, the force that captured Washington marched almost unopposed.
I’m moderately sure that teleprompters are designed to work in the rain. It would be quite an extraordinary feat of design to end up with one that didn’t.