The airport and Fort McHenry parts are funny, sure, but does he really think the Continental Army won all of the battles during the Revolutionary War?
Dis somebody write the speech for him?
He is claiming that the rain knocked out the teleprompter at that time, forcing him to wing it. I don’t know if an actual transcript of the speech is available.
…the man thinks that “ramparts” are literally “the parts that are to be rammed.”
We’re doomed.
And what about the Continental Army being named for Washington? What was that supposed to be about?
Yeah… I mean, it’s possible the man has a few screws loose. Sometimes I think I hear hints of that. But of all the examples given in this thread, he sounds like he always does… a fifth-grader giving a book report without having read the book, running out the clock by spewing word salad.
That kind of verbiage is terrible, and it looks worse when transcribed. But the only disorder it betrays is the attitude that this is acceptable behavior.
It is an strange excuse. Even if true, then who in a moment of winging it says the Continental Army took over the airports. It really doesn’t make his case any better. One might argue it makes it worse, if he had said the teleprompter had it and he reflexively read it, it would still be funny but much better.
It was almost certainly supposed to be something like Washington being named Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
That sentence construction apparently went completely over Trump’s head, and he changed it to “named for.”
Huh? What do you mean he doesn’t get to pick and choose? Who’s telling the POTUS what to do? :dubious:
Fake news; we all heard it.
As a stagehand, I can tell you that the likelihood of the teleprompter being knocked out by rain or anything else was about .0001%.
:dubious:
Do you think Trump would do anything besides golf and political rallies if it was only up to him?
Yes. I think he already does. I think your insistence that Trump regularly does anything he doesn’t want to because someone else told him to is patently absurd and has no evidence to back it up.
People yell questions when he’s getting in a plane or crossing his lawn. He regularly has joint press conferences with foreign heads of state. He gets asked off topic questions when he thinks he’s just doing a fun little publicity stunt. If you think this is all Trump’s choice, rather than requirements of the job, whatever. Not worth arguing about.
Yup. My Mom is 90. Oh, she has a bit of short term memory difficulty. So do I. But she speaks clearly and succinctly and has no problem remembering the important stuff and starting a sentence that actually ends in a point.
Trump starts with “I” and then winds around lampposts that are clearly out of kerosene and ends with “few people know this”.
When I run into elderly folks that do the same, it’s fine to just nod and smile. Not so much when it’s the President of the United States
I cannot find cites for this airport stuff.
See from 38:20 to 39:15
Thanks, Peter Morris.
Christ, he did say that airports were captured.
His ‘mind’ was probably thinking about the military flyovers. All done for his greatness. And that surely has something to do with airports. So he made that connection, and that’s what snapped out of his mouth.
War means airplanes, airplanes mean airports. We had a revolution/war, so airplanes and airports must have been involved.
Not that I want to try to figure out what he is ‘thinking’. Doubt that’s possible. There is no thought other than “how can I make myself look good”. Words and policy don’t matter. History, and the future doesn’t matter. Never has to him. He can’t grasp anything but the present, and he has a very, very light hold on that.