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"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 air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rocket’s red glare it had nothing but victory. And when dawn came, their star-spangled banner waved defiant."
-- President Donald J. Trump, a man who "really love[s] war, in a certain way," July 4, 2019
Two things of note about this speech:
1) The Battle of Fort McHenry, which inspired the whole "Star-Spangled Banner" thing, occurred during the War of 1812, not in 1775 during the Revolutionary War.
2) They didn't have fucking ***airports*** in colonial times.
Really, what the fuck happened here? Before this, I would have granted the remote, vague possibility that even Donald Jackass Trump wasn't actually that mindlessly stupid. Now, however, I am not so sure. I'm not sure of anything anymore, really...
And if it really was "just" a case of him "reading the teleprompter wrong" ...well, that's not even remotely any better. If he thought the teleprompter was trying to get him to say "I, Donald Trump, am a stupid, fart-sniffing shitgibbon," would he just mindlessly read that, too? Probably, he would? I don't know? I mean, it is a true statement...
...ah, there we go. No, he wouldn't read it, because it would require him to speak the truth, in that case, which is a thing that would likely cause him to explode into hives.
"Our Army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rocket’s red glare it had nothing but victory. And when dawn came, their star-spangled banner waved defiant."
-- President Donald J. Trump, a man who "really love[s] war, in a certain way," July 4, 2019
Two things of note about this speech:
1) The Battle of Fort McHenry, which inspired the whole "Star-Spangled Banner" thing, occurred during the War of 1812, not in 1775 during the Revolutionary War.
2) They didn't have fucking ***airports*** in colonial times.
Really, what the fuck happened here? Before this, I would have granted the remote, vague possibility that even Donald Jackass Trump wasn't actually that mindlessly stupid. Now, however, I am not so sure. I'm not sure of anything anymore, really...
And if it really was "just" a case of him "reading the teleprompter wrong" ...well, that's not even remotely any better. If he thought the teleprompter was trying to get him to say "I, Donald Trump, am a stupid, fart-sniffing shitgibbon," would he just mindlessly read that, too? Probably, he would? I don't know? I mean, it is a true statement...
...ah, there we go. No, he wouldn't read it, because it would require him to speak the truth, in that case, which is a thing that would likely cause him to explode into hives.
