Moment 10 – Claiming Airports in the Revolutionary War
In a 2019 speech, Trump said the Continental Army “manned the air, it rammed the ramparts… took over the airports” during the Revolutionary War. The anachronistic blunder mixed 18th-century history with modern aviation, amusing historians.
It became a classic example of factual slips, with memes highlighting the impossibility of airports in 1776. Critics used it to question historical knowledge, while supporters laughed it off as a minor mix-up. The gaffe stuck as one of his most enduring verbal errors.
