Twitter users continue to call out the White House for tweeting lines from Donald Trumpโs Independence Day celebration speech in which the president falsely claimed credit for the U.S. for a whole host of things:
"Americans harnessed electricity, split the atom, and gave the world the telephone and the internet. We settled the Wild West, won two World Wars, landed American Astronauts on the Moonโand one day soon, we will plant our flag on Mars!"
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 6, 2020
โ President @realDonaldTrump
โAmericans harnessed electricity, split the atom, and gave the world the telephone and the internet,โ Trump said during his address at Mount Rushmore on July 3, in which he also raged against โfar-left fascismโ and โcancel culture.โ
โWe settled the Wild West, won two World Wars, landed American astronauts on the Moon โ and one day very soon, we will plant our flag on Mars,โ he added.
The White House shared the quote, above, on Sunday.
Tweeters have been fact-checking most of the claims ever since.
โAre you trolling him too now?โ one tweeter replied to the White Houseโs post.
Said another: โAre there no history books in the white house library?โ
Rutherford (Kiwi) split the atom, Bell (Scot) invented the telephone, Berners-Lee (Brit) invented the WWW, โsettlingโ the Wild West=murdering the Native Americans, the 2 WWs not all yr own work. Otherwise youโre good to go. https://t.co/p6i4IwUdma
— Stephen Mangan (@StephenMangan) July 7, 2020
Dear @WhiteHouse, are you trolling him too now? https://t.co/wgsareabT0
— Ken Barlow (@I_am_KenBarlow) July 10, 2020
Fake news anyone? The comments.... https://t.co/0dQYrvUvBu
— Ben Shirley (@BenGShirley) July 10, 2020
Wow. So many mistakes in one tweet.
— Rob McCluskey โ๐น๐ผ (@rob_mccluskey) July 6, 2020
Are there no history books in the white house library ?
Who was his history teacher?
— Fake History Hunter (@fakehistoryhunt) July 7, 2020
I have questions.
Actually the atom was first split in a British university by a New Zealander. The electric motor and dynamo were invented in Britain. A Scot invented the telephone (in the US), and the WWW was invented at CERN by a Briton. But apart from those points, spot on.
— James West (@ejwwest) July 7, 2020
Tesla was a Serb.
— Iona Brand (@MikeIona) July 7, 2020
Bell was a Scot.
Tim Berners-Lee was British.
You can own the Native American genocide.
3 years late for WW1.
Over 2 years late for WW2.
The US Space Program was run by a bunch of "useful Nazis" from 1945.
I wouldn't trust Trump to plant a flag the right way up!
Electricity. Hard to pinpoint one nation.
— Rob Manuel - Follow @fesshole now! (@robmanuel) July 7, 2020
Splitting atom. Ernest Rutherford. New Zealander working in UK.
Phone. Alexander Graham Bell. Scottish.
Internet. USA. Although WWW was a Brit scientist.
WW2. Allies including USA. Russia did A LOT.
Wild West. You can have that one Don. https://t.co/TT0QbTzWKT
Given Rutherford (atom) was from New Zealand, Sir Tim Berners-Lee (Internet), England, and Alexander Graham Bell (telephone), Scotland, I feel they all have something in common but canโt quite think of it. https://t.co/rCgFYpt59v
— Mark Stephens (@MarksLarks) July 8, 2020
Woah, woah, some beg to differ!
— The University of Manchester (@OfficialUoM) July 7, 2020
Find out more about how the atom was split: https://t.co/9NKeyIMsFh https://t.co/vhdcVwzcIs
LOOOOOOOOOL
— Daniele Palumbo (@Danict89) July 7, 2020
Atom - Rutherford, a New Zealander.
Internet - Tim Berners-Lee, an Englishman.
Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell, a Scotsman.
The White House is always spot on https://t.co/Cs52C4Qm3Y
Atom was split by Earnest Rutherford from NZ. Phone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell from Scotland. World War l and II - group effort but US were there for some of it. Internet - not as good as we thought it was going to be. https://t.co/GOW3YvVlBV
— Jemaine Clement (@AJemaineClement) July 7, 2020
Tim Berners-Lee sat at home spitting his tea as he reads this. https://t.co/Su4NOrJ8H4
— Mike P Williams (@Mike_P_Williams) July 7, 2020
Actually almost totally incorrect.....
— GuntherBett #FPPE ๐๐ (@BettGunther) July 7, 2020
Telephone: ๐ฎ๐น + ๐ด
— Stephen Grant (@stephencgrant) July 10, 2020
The web: ๐ด(On ๐บ๐ธ ARPANET)
WWI: ๐ซ๐ท ๐ฌ๐ง ๐ฎ๐น ๐ท๐บ ๐ฏ๐ต (๐บ๐ธ joined late)
WWII: ๐ซ๐ท ๐ฌ๐ง ๐ท๐บ ๐จ๐ณ (๐บ๐ธ joined late)
Moon program ๐บ๐ธ on ๐ฉ๐ช rocket tech
Atom split: ๐ณ๐ฟ in ๐ฌ๐ง uni
Electricity (we use AC not DC): ๐ท๐ธ (harnessing itโก๏ธ+๐ช:๐บ๐ธ)
Mass murdering indigenous โWild Westโ: ๐บ๐ธ https://t.co/ZBXRlZVDIs
Lolz.
— The Ayrshire Separatist (@mathie_dan) July 7, 2020
Atom - Rutherford, a New Zealander.
Internet - Tim Berners-Lee, an Englishman.
Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell, a Scotsman. https://t.co/mhgs25R7kR
1/3 Well I think eels got to electricity first, and arguably Michael Faraday 'harnessed' it, as opposed to simply studying and experimenting, by inventing the electric motor. Rutherford, a Kiwi, split the atom here in Manchester. The phone was invented in the US, but by a proud https://t.co/pGs46pCvvH
— Thom Hetherington (@ThomHetheringto) July 10, 2020
2/3 Scot, Bell, who lived in Canada. You get the Internet, but it wasn't a lot of fun until Berners-Lee, a Brit, invented the www. 'Settling the Wild West'? You win that one, but it was genocide so maybe don't boast. And yes, you were on the victorious team in two world wars, but
— Thom Hetherington (@ThomHetheringto) July 10, 2020
3/3 other countries arguably did more (ie Russia in the WWII), and you've also lost many smaller wars on your own. Well done on the men on the moon, though ironically Trump's followers probably believe that is a hoax. Enjoy your eventual second or third place in the race to Mars.
— Thom Hetherington (@ThomHetheringto) July 10, 2020
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