US President Donald Trump said a teleprompter mishap led to his much-mocked July Fourth flub in which he talked about defending airports during the American Revolution. "The teleprompter went out," Trump told reporters as he left the White House for a weekend at his golf club in Bedminster in the US state of New Jersey. CAROLYN KASTER/AP US President Donald Trump said the US army "took over the airports" in in 1775. "I knew the speech very well, so I was able to do it without a teleprompter. Trump did not explain why, given the failure of the teleprompter, he began talking about airports in colonial America.

Source: Stuff July 05, 2019 20:22 UTC