(CNN) President Donald Trump blamed a faulty teleprompter for his claim during remarks he made at a July 4th event that the Continental Army "took over the airports" during the Revolutionary War.

"It kept going on and at the end it just went out," Trump told reporters at the White House on Friday. "It went kaput."

He said the moment of technical failure came when he made the widely derided remark about eighteenth-century airports.

Without apologizing for the mistake, Trump said it wasn't pleasant to see the scrolling stop as he was delivering his highly anticipated speech.

"That's not a good feeling when you're standing in front of millions and millions of people," he said. "I guess the rain knocked out the teleprompter."

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