Trump praised the troops for taking 'over the airports' during the Revolutionary War. There were no airports in the 1700s
Trump spoke behind rain-streaked bulletproof glass. Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images Nearly two years after Emmanuel Macron hosted President Trump for France’s Bastille Day parade, sparking jealousy in the budding authoritarian, Trump finally got his own splashy celebration of American military might on Thursday.
Instead, Trump took listeners on a rambling journey of American military history and claimed that, “Someday soon we will plant the American flag on Mars.” He also made a pitch for young Americans to do as he says, not as he did, when it comes to military service. There were, of course, no airports during the 18th century. Trump’s apparent misreading of the word “ports” resulted in some well-earned mockery.
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