I’m not a big Merle fan but I know he was called the “Poet of the Common Man” for a good reason, and maybe there’s something poetic in the fact that he died on his birthday:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/06/entertainment/merle-haggard-country-music-dies/
“We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse,
In Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA.”
Obama probably doesn’t even know who he is, and couldn’t find Oklahoma on a map, but President Trump would be first to lower that flag on the courthouse to half-staff.
Plus, Obama probably doesn't even know what "Old Glory" is.