Donald Trump is blaming technical difficulties for a history slip up during his “Salute to America” speech on Independence Day.
“Our Army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports,” Trump said of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War.” But, there’s only one problem. Airplanes weren’t invented until more than a century later.
According to Trump, the screen displaying his speech went out mid-sentence, and that’s when he referenced the nonexistent “airports.”
“It kept going on, and at the end, it just went out,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Friday. “It went kaput.”
Since the Fourth of July, critics have wasted no time mocking 45 for butchering American history. The hashtags #TrumpParadeFail and #RevolutionaryWarAirports began trending on Twitter.
“I need a POTUS who’s smarter than a brick,” one user wrote.
While Trump stood front and center on Thursday, protesters weren’t the only ones to rain on his “parade.” Heavy showers came down on the crowd gathered outside of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
“That’s not a good feeling when you’re standing in front of millions and millions of people,” he said. “I guess the rain knocked out the teleprompter.”
Trump hasn’t apologized for the misinformation he shared during the speech, however, he said that his memory of the speech helped him get through technical difficulties.
“I knew the speech very well so I was able to do it without a teleprompter,” he said. “And it was actually hard to look at anyway because of the rain.”
Here’s what some critics had to say on Twitter!
