"America is still a nation that [...] sent a brave young man from Ohio [pause...] to a [pause...] PLANT! You know who it is, the stars and stripes on the face of the moon, you know who it is"
He couldn't bring himself to say what the teleprompter said because he knows it's not true.
This isn’t that larp of fiction called the Bible.
Nor is it 4d chess with cryptic hidden messages.
This is literally nothing.
Huh? I'm not sure what your comment is supposed to mean.
My point is clearly he was supposed to say "that young man from Ohio who planted the American flag on the moon" -- but he paused and made sure not to say it
He couldn’t remember the name of Neil Armstrong.
The only subtext to this situation is embarrassment.
That's possible also, but why did he stop reading the teleprompter and change the phrase so deliberately?Sent a man to a plant?