{"id":6805,"date":"2019-07-13T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6805"},"modified":"2019-08-07T16:27:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T23:27:20","slug":"the-battle-of-yorktown-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6805","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of Yorktown Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the most amusing things that&#8217;s happened since we&#8217;ve been on break is the Independence Day celebration in Washington D.C. with special guest &#8216;speaker&#8217;, America&#8217;s CEO\/Dictator and petulant man child, Donald Trump. To his credit, the speech wasn&#8217;t partisan and the expected military parade complete with tanks rolling down the parade route didn&#8217;t materialize. But Trump&#8217;s speech was pure. . .Trumpian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In it, he<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" rambled on about the Revolutionary War and managed to mangle the history of this country beyond recognition (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2019\/07\/05\/turns-out-there-werent-airports-back-then\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.9d499ab28e4f\" target=\"_blank\"> rambled on about the Revolutionary War and managed to mangle the history of this country beyond recognition<\/a>, juxtaposing events of the War of 1812 with the Battle of Yorktown from the Revolutionary War and inexplicably linking both with the taking of airports. Watch a video of this mess. Of course, Trump blamed it all on his teleprompter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nightmarish thing about this travesty is that Donald Trump is still President of the United States. Yes folks; the embarrassment continues unabated thanks to our feckless members of congress who refuse to remove this clown from office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, let&#8217;s revel in Trump&#8217;s alternative facts history, when George Washington and his band of patriots bravely saved a Starbucks at Terminal 2 of Yorktown Airport from certain destruction and celebrated with victory caff\u00e8 lattes  for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumphistoryyorktownairport.jpg\" alt=\"America's CEO\/Dictator Donald Trump recently regaled the masses with the story of the Battle of Yorktown Airport when George Washington and his band of patriots bravely saved a Starbucks at Terminal 2 from certain destruction and celebrated with victory caff\u00e8 lattes for all.\" class=\"wp-image-6809\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumphistoryyorktownairport.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumphistoryyorktownairport-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>America&#8217;s CEO\/Dictator Donald Trump recently regaled the masses with the story of the Battle of Yorktown Airport when George Washington and his band of patriots bravely saved a Starbucks at Terminal 2 from certain destruction and celebrated with victory caff\u00e8 lattes for all.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most amusing things that&#8217;s happened since we&#8217;ve been on break is the Independence Day celebration in Washington D.C. with special guest &#8216;speaker&#8217;, America&#8217;s CEO\/Dictator and petulant man child, Donald Trump. To his credit, the speech wasn&#8217;t partisan and the expected military parade complete with tanks rolling down the parade route didn&#8217;t materialize. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6805\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Battle of Yorktown Airport&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,61,60,8,1959,85,963,3,198,35],"tags":[1360,1942,1491,1575,22,20,389,1585,9,1390,1361,663,199,1941,1578,98,596,296,19,1940,1656,47,48,694,1939],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6805"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6805"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6812,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6805\/revisions\/6812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}