Trump Proves He’s No Historian–Crediting Revolutionary War Success with Revolutionary Forces Air Strength
Trump has never understood U.S. history and that we are a nation of immigrants–immigrants from all parts of the world, including Latin America and Asia. They have all contributed to the greatness of America. Trump’s lack of U.S. history knowledge was apparent in his July 4 speech.
From Huffington Post:
Critics of President Donald Trump were flying high Thursday after his jaw-dropping gaffe in his Independence Day speech, in which he said that the brave U.S. Army took over airports during the Revolutionary War.
Trump, clearly reading from a teleprompter, talked about how the Continental Congress in 1775 “created a unified Army out of the Revolutionary Forces encamped around Boston and New York.” The army suffered a “bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown,” Trump said. General Cornwallis, of London, was defeated at Yorktown.
Here’s where it goes off the rails: “Our Army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over airports, it did everything it had to do,” Trump added. . .
The hashtag Revolutionary War Airport Stories was quickly trending on Twitter.
#RevolutionaryWarAirportStories “One if by sea, Two if by land and Three if by AIR”
We beat the British because they had to connect through Atlanta. #RevolutionaryWarAirportStories
My Dearest Rose, I’m afraid I must be the bearer of bad news. My flight has already been delayed a fortnight, and I fear it will be longer. The army has shut down the airport and the airplane will not be invented for 6 score and 7 years from now.#RevolutionaryWarAirportStories
My dear Frederick, They continue to hold us prisoner. All we have been given to eat are small portions of miniature pretzels, and no ale or mead. They torture us with stories of some mythical being called a “beverage cart,” yet it does not appear. #RevolutionaryWarAirportStories
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