The internet went wild with jokes about what the Revolutionary War would have been like with airports after President Donald Trump made a confusing reference to US forces seizing airports.

"Our Army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do," Trump said during his Fourth of July speech in Washington, DC.

It's unclear whether "airports" was mistakenly written into the speech or whether Trump meant to say "seaports" instead.

The first airplanes weren't invented by the Wright brothers until 1903, well over a century after the Revolutionary War, and the first airport opened in College Park, Maryland, in 1909.

People on social media had some Fourth of July fun with jokes and memes about Trump's gaffe, causing #RevolutionaryWarAirportStories to become a trending topic on Twitter.

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The internet went wild with jokes and memes about what the Revolutionary War would have been like with airports after President Donald Trump made a confusing reference in his Fourth of July speech to US forces seizing airports.

"Our Army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets' red glare, it had nothing but victory. And when dawn came, their star-spangled banner waved defiant," Trump said in a speech at the National Mall in Washington, DC.

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It's unclear whether "airports" was mistakenly written into the speech or whether Trump meant to say "seaports" instead. The first airplanes weren't invented by the Wright brothers until 1903, well over a century after the Revolutionary War, and the first airport opened in College Park, Maryland, in 1909.

People on social media had some Fourth of July fun making jokes and memes about Trump's gaffe, causing #RevolutionaryWarAirportStories to become a trending topic on Twitter:

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