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Let’s put it this way. He screwed up so badly he had to admit he made a mistake, although he blamed it on too much rain on the TelePrompTer. When does Trump every admit a mistake on anything. It was so damned ridiculous that he couldn’t come up with a lie to cover it.
He screwed up all over 'da place. Using Alexander Graham Bell as an example of American entrepreneurial inventiveness when Bell was a Scottish immigrant to Canada, invented the telephone in Brantford Canada and was granted a patent for it in 1876.
When the birther-in-thief reads he is not even absorbing what he is reading. What is retained and understood while reading is how reading comprehension is measured and graded. Trump likely had a very low score on reading skill tests as a kid. We need not wonder why he threatened his schools not to release his grades.
When he read "airports", he should have made a face. It didn't even catch his attention at all.
He screwed up all over 'da place. Using Alexander Graham Bell as an example of American entrepreneurial inventiveness when Bell was a Scottish immigrant to Canada, invented the telephone in Brantford Canada and was granted a patent for it in 1876.
Here is a transcript of what he actually said: “In June of 1775, the Continental Congress created a unified army out of the revolutionary forces encamped around Boston and New York and named after the great George Washington, commander in chief. The Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown. Our army manned the [unclear], it [unclear] the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do. And at Fort McHenry, under “the rockets red glare,” it had nothing but victory. And when dawn came, their star-spangled banner waved defiant.”
There are so many errors here, so let’s jump right in:
British General Cornwallis was defeated at Yorktown but he was from London, which would make him General Cornwallis of London.
The Continental Army wasn’t named after Washington. Trump seemed very confused and disoriented throughout his speech and it was obvious the TelePrompTer was throwing him off so maybe he mis-spoke and used the wrong verb. Or maybe his speechwriter, likely Stephen Miller, really doesn’t know the accurate history.
He combines two separate wars, fought decades apart. Valley Forge, crossing the Delaware and Yorktown all occurred during the Revolutionary War in 1775. But then Trump mentions Fort McHenry and the battle that inspired the national anthem, which was fought in 1814 during the War of 1812.
I’m sure he means “Fort McHenry” here and is just struggling to read, but in the audio you can hear that he pronounces it “Fort McHendry.”
Trump claims that the soldiers in one of these battles, either in 1775 or 1814 took over the airports. The airports. This is made even stranger by the fact that Trump specifically mentions that the Wright brothers first flew at Kitty Hawk in 1903.
It’s as if he didn’t even know what was in his own speech or understand what he was saying. Which leads us now to a very familiar state of not knowing whether or not to laugh or be extremely worried at the mental state of the President of the United States.
Trump, who has derided Democratic opponents like Hillary Clinton for using teleprompters, did make use of one for his big July Fourth speech. But he said the rain foiled its usefulness.
"I guess the rain knocked out the teleprompter," he said. "I knew the speech very well, so I was able to do it without a teleprompter. And it was hard to look at it anyway."
Trump did not explain why, given the failure of the teleprompter, he began talking about airports in colonial America.
Right wingers think everyone who doesn't bow down to herr leader = left/liberals.
Even if you're conservative. Even if you're independent. Even if you're moderate. You must bow down and kiss the little clay feet of the man spray painted orange or you are simply unAmerican and <gasp> liberal. They can't discern or recognize the very wide swath of political beliefs in a country where hundreds of thousands fought and died for the right to have one's own beliefs, religion, and freedom of choice. They don't understand the constitution (nor does their leader for that matter). They are programmed to not think, just follow blindly, and reject everyone else who doesn't think the Trumple is the 2nd coming of whatever.
Although I completely agree with this, I have a special contempt for the far left because although much smaller in number, they are as crazy as the much larger right, and swing the door open just enough to allow these wackos in.
This is a great article, and really illustrates just how crazy the far left was/is, and how they opened the door for the nutty right, not Buckley's right, or even Reagan's right, but Trump's right.
Dems start an Impeachment hearing already for the improper use of English and spend 20 Million $$ on an Investigation.
He probably let his Russian dialect slip out.
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