<p class="title">Airports? In the 1700s? A historical flub landed in President Donald Trump's "Salute to America" speech on Thursday marking the US Independence Day holiday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">While praising the victories of the Continental Army over the British during the 1775-1783 Revolutionary War, Trump mentioned how that army "took over the airports."</p>.<p class="bodytext">There were, of course, no airports in the 1770s, not to mention aeroplanes, which were not invented until the 1900s.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Trump read his prepared speech from a teleprompter behind a bulletproof lectern streaked with rain. On Friday he told reporters that the teleprompter had gone "kaput."</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Actually, in the middle of that sentence it went out," Trump said of the teleprompter. "And that's not a good feeling." "I guess the rain knocked out the teleprompter, but I knew the speech very well," he said, "so I was able to do it without a teleprompter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"And it was actually hard to look at anyway because there was rain all over it," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Trump also appeared at one point during the speech to mix up the Revolutionary War with the War of 1812.</p>.<p class="bodytext">While talking about the Revolutionary War, Trump mentioned the "rockets' red glare," which had inspired lawyer Francis Scott Key to write the poem that became "The Star-Spangled Banner," now the US national anthem. Key wrote it after watching a British fleet bombard Fort McHenry, in Maryland's Baltimore Harbor, in September 1814.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Trump mostly stuck to his prepared text during a nearly hour-long Fourth of July speech that repeatedly lauded the US armed forces and stayed out of the partisan territory.</p>
<p class="title">Airports? In the 1700s? A historical flub landed in President Donald Trump's "Salute to America" speech on Thursday marking the US Independence Day holiday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">While praising the victories of the Continental Army over the British during the 1775-1783 Revolutionary War, Trump mentioned how that army "took over the airports."</p>.<p class="bodytext">There were, of course, no airports in the 1770s, not to mention aeroplanes, which were not invented until the 1900s.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Trump read his prepared speech from a teleprompter behind a bulletproof lectern streaked with rain. On Friday he told reporters that the teleprompter had gone "kaput."</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Actually, in the middle of that sentence it went out," Trump said of the teleprompter. "And that's not a good feeling." "I guess the rain knocked out the teleprompter, but I knew the speech very well," he said, "so I was able to do it without a teleprompter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"And it was actually hard to look at anyway because there was rain all over it," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Trump also appeared at one point during the speech to mix up the Revolutionary War with the War of 1812.</p>.<p class="bodytext">While talking about the Revolutionary War, Trump mentioned the "rockets' red glare," which had inspired lawyer Francis Scott Key to write the poem that became "The Star-Spangled Banner," now the US national anthem. Key wrote it after watching a British fleet bombard Fort McHenry, in Maryland's Baltimore Harbor, in September 1814.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Trump mostly stuck to his prepared text during a nearly hour-long Fourth of July speech that repeatedly lauded the US armed forces and stayed out of the partisan territory.</p>