Trump claims 1775 revolutionary army ’took over airports’

President Trump made an embarrassing error when addressing crowds during his Independence Day speech, praising the army, which he said ’took over the airports’ from the British during the revolutionary war in the late 1700s, despite air travel not occurring in the US until the early 1900s. Trump was speaking at the Lincoln memorial in Washington as part of his 4 July ’Salute to America’ celebrations