Posted on 03/06/2019 1:54:36 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It would have been a jarring image no matter the president.
We're used to seeing the American flag handled in a number of ways. It can be hoisted, saluted, folded in honor of the fallen, even burned in protest.
But it's not every day you see the leader of the free world hug the flag in front of a crowd of adoring followers.
Enter President Donald Trump on Saturday at the annual gathering of conservatives known as the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). He grabbed an unassuming Old Glory by its stand like a prom date, and gave it a brief, slightly terrifying, slow-dance to "Proud to be an American."
In that moment, in a way, the flag was so many of us -- Americans recoiling at the smothering and unwanted advances of an unstable lech. On behalf of the flag, I wanted to shout: "I beg your pardon, sir! Get your hands off of me!"
But as off-putting as Trump's grabbing of the stars and stripes felt to many, it was clearly a consensual act to his supporters, who loved every minute of it and the 122 that followed.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
It’s official. There is literally nothing TRUMP can do that won’t OUTRAGE the left.
Yep. C Cup now turns her nose up at the folks who got her started.
Ingratitude. Thy name is daughter.
She just needs a gentle spanking.
listen to BBC’s guest Ece Temlkuran from 18 minutes 10 seconds in (the segment begins at 13:10) -
AUDIO: BBC: The Culture Frontline
With fears of rising populism across Europe, we hear from the Turkish writer Ece Temelkuran on what it takes for a country to turn from democracy to dictatorship. (ALL YOU NEED IS A RUTHLESS MAN TO TELL THE CROWD I WILL MAKE OUR COUNTRY GREAT AGAIN)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cswp7c
I’ll pass, but thank you.
Even Freepers fell for it with Coulter, but now she's back to tearing down President Trump in order to make room for mitt wit.
no surprise Ece Temelkuran has also been published by The Guardian:
14 Feb: Guardian: Ece Temelkuran: From Tahrir to Trump: nationalism has hijacked the hope of the people
It is dangerous and unfortunate that so much public anger is being organised and mobilised by rightwing populists and ruthless autocrats such as Donald Trump...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/14/tahrir-square-trump-nationalists-hope-protesters
Quite obvious she knows nothing about our President.
President Trump has the right to hug The Flag.
He was born on Flag Day.
When he hugs The Flag, he hugs us.
psycho
I had the honor and privilege to clutch a folded US Flag to my chest several times during my Air Force career, just before I handed it to a loved one of the deceased. I love that flag just as much as our President and see nothing wrong with what he did.
Cupp is proof that money corrupts. She was a conservative until cnn paid her to spout their leftist narrative.
JoMa
Do you feel that way whenever you see the flag draped across an Olympians shooters too there Ms Cupp??? Oh look at them raping the flag, like its a drugged out groupie invited backstage by the band after the show.
Take your nevertrump GOPe nonsense elsewhere.
Ditto all that!!
I would say your comment was very offensive, if she hadn’t deliberately chosen a stage name that sounded like “a C cup.”
So “A Cupp” didn’t like it?
BFD.
I’ve been to many military funerals where the family, spouse, etc., always hug the flag that is given to them from the ceremony.
I don’t hear anyone scoffing that!
This proves it once and for all. SE has completely lost it. This is just dumb.
If that bothered you, then you are a sissy.
Dont care who you are.
What does it say about a person who complains about hugging the flag but is silent about burning it?
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