Going back to his "we sent boats too", not before 1776 you (at least in the guise of the US) didn't. Those would have been British, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, etc boats.
Plus Erik the Red was there five hundred years before Columbus even found out there was a Bahamas, let alone mainland states.
That education money clearly wasn't wasted on history lessons for the petulant little cunt.