Trump Blames ‘Airports’ Gaffe On A Teleprompter Blackout

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 04: President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence stand on stage after President Donald Trump spoke at the "Salute to America" ceremony ... WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 04: President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence stand on stage after President Donald Trump spoke at the "Salute to America" ceremony in front of the Lincoln Memorial, on July 4, 2019 in Washington, DC. The presentation featured armored vehicles on display, a flyover by Air Force One, and several flyovers by other military aircraft. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Trump had a rare moment of humility on Friday while speaking to reporters when he admitted it wasn’t “a good feeling” when his teleprompter cut out during his speech on Independence Day.

The President blamed his weird reference to Revolutionary War armies taking over airports on the teleprompter going black, claiming he was “right in the middle of that sentence” when it cut out.

“The teleprompter went out, it kept going on and then at the end it just went out, it went kaput, so I could’ve said — and actually right in the middle of that sentence it went out and that’s not a good feeling,” he said. “When you’re standing in front of millions and millions of people on television and I don’t know what the final count was but that went all the way back to the Washington Monument.

“I knew the speech very well,” he continued. “So I was able to do it without a teleprompter but the teleprompter did go out.”

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  1. Bullcrap. He knew the text said “…and the ramparts,” which he mangled as “Ran the amparts” and then corrected to “ramparts”, then added “airports!” because he’s a freak who can’t make mistakes. He knew the right word because the teleprompter gave it to him.

    He’s also lying about being able to do a 45-minute speech from memory that was only recently written for him. But that lie is like his 3000th most serious.

  2. I had some sympathy for him, these things happen and it’s possible to blank out. It can happen to the best of us. Until I got to the end of the article.

    “I knew the speech very well,” he continued. “So I was able to do it without a teleprompter but the teleprompter did go out.”

    Yeah. Still a dick.

  3. He was only incorrect about the airports, because everyone used aircraft carriers at the time. The British fleet was used to control its empire around the globe, and as air-to-air refueling hadn’t yet been invented, planes were limited in how far from the ship they could fly.

    Surely everyone remembers how the British fire-bombed the WH in 1812.

  4. “The teleprompter went out, it kept going on and then at the end it just went out, it went kaput, so I could’ve said — and actually right in the middle of that sentence it went out and that’s not a good feeling,” he said.

    k

    “When you’re standing in front of millions and millions of people on television and I don’t know what the final count was but that went all the way back to the Washington Monument.

    k

    I knew the speech very well,” he continued. “So I was able to do it without a teleprompter but the teleprompter did go out.”

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