To judge from fc412fe4cee960, back in 2016 it was the latest version
of Ubuntu available on Travis CI. Now build tools there are too old
for testing purposes.
Other than that, Ubuntu Trusty hasn't been supported at https://apt.llvm.org/
since August 2019, which makes it kind of hard at this point to bring the latest clang
along with ASan, UBsan, Msan and libFuzzer to Travis CI.