Weird.
How does an American manage to know so little about their country’s history, that random foreigners (me) who just consume American media (with no particular effort to focus on this history) look like mega brained scholars in comparison.
Though, even knowing nothing about the US at all, you’d hope a president would at least know planes were not a thing in 1776 0_0
There was someone on Reddit claiming to be an educator who said Trump has a reading disability which is not that uncommon. According to them when most people read a word they don’t need to see every letter, the context and a few letters is enough. Sort of like how the art form impressionism works. Tht xplns hw u cn rd ths. Not everyone has this ability which explains how Trump might confuse words like rampart and airport. It also explains why he says things off the cuff and doesn’t use a teleprompter. Ever see him read? It’s painful to watch, like a fourth grader reading a book report. I’ll bet when he gave a state of the union speech they practiced with him for many hours
To be fair, the British didn’t have great air superiority, so they were doomed from the start.
Ramparts are the parts that you ram, airports are the holes that let air in. Makes perfect sense if you’re only vaguely aware of what words mean.
