Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

See you whatever that is and raise you this buffoonery.....


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/05/problem-with-trumps-revolutionary-war-airports-isnt-airports/

“The Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge,” he continued, “found glory across the waters of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown. Our army manned the [unclear]. It rammed 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.”

A lot of people are misidentifying the problem, though. It's not the case that Trump wrote this speech and deliberately included a line about the famous Battle of Washington National. Instead, he was reading a prepared speech, stumbled repeatedly over what he was reading — and refused to acknowledge or correct those mistakes.

There are a number of slip-ups just in the section above. Instead of saying that the Continental Congress named George Washington commander in chief, which it did, Trump said for some reason that they named it after him, which they didn’t.

He said that the winter of Valley Forge, not at Valley Forge, was difficult. Trump claimed that British Gen. Charles Cornwallis of Yorktown had victory snatched away from him instead of saying that Cornwallis lost at Yorktown.

He said that the army manned .?.?. something, instead of presumably saying that American forces manned the ramparts at Fort McHenry. The fort’s ramparts are part of the national anthem, which Trump then alluded to twice more.

Where the “airports” line came from is admittedly unclear. Perhaps there was a mention of ports? If Trump was trying to fill in or cover up a fumble (as he appears to have done with his addition of “it did everything it had to do"), working in a line about taking over airports was certainly an odd choice in the moment.

Update: On Friday morning, Trump told reporters that the teleprompter malfunctioned due to the rain.

Again, though, this is Trump’s approach. In speeches in particular, he will often misspeak and, instead of retracting what he said, will just say the proper thing afterward. He’ll generally include the word “and” as though both the incorrect and correct words were supposed to be in his remarks. Like, “it’s raining cats and frogs .?.?. and dogs.”

We are not the first to notice this.

This inability to admit misstatements has no more extreme example than his infamous “covfefe” tweet from 2017. Late one night that May, Trump tweeted, “Despite the constant negative press covfefe.” He’d obviously meant to write “coverage” and, instead of deleting the mistake, accidentally hit send.

Face it rooster, Tillerson was right. Trump is a f'ing moron.