Posted on 08/27/2018 1:17:40 PM PDT by detective
The White House on Monday afternoon re-lowered its flags to half staff after drawing significant backlash for returning them to full staff less than 48 hours after the death of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
Multiple reporters noted on social media that the flags were flying at half staff once again. The White House did not immediately respond to questions for comment on why the change was made.
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Perception is Reality. And the perception is that he caved because of the backlash.
It shows Trump can be manipulated by the media. And I think the VFW and AL were also manipulated by the media.
Fine, let’s get this over with.
[McCainalingus fest]
OMG, that’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard!!!!!!
“At the request of the McCain family, I have also authorized military transportation of Senator McCains remains from Arizona to Washington”
This is just bizarre. I would say outrageous considering what mccain has done...IRS, dossier, step n fetch it boy for Obama, etc.
Wellstone Memorial, Part Deux!
This will pass, next week the media will be onto some other scandal, or Stormy or something.
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The Media are just pissed they’ve lost their favorite bludgeon to use on Trump. They’ll probably latch onto Romney, as he’s more than willing to be the media’s pit chihuahua.
That is a very interesting statement....
Not happy about the cave but this too shall pass when the next phony mini-scandal occurs. Like in two minutes.
But all the caving does is to encourage them for the next time.
The media wants to run the country. The voters voices are meaningless.
Nah. They encourage each other. It wasn’t like it was a cave over something major. Just a cave over another dead white man.
“But all the caving does is to encourage them for the next time.”
Like throwing another bucket of chum in the water when the sharks are already in a feeding frenzy.
Yeah. My Facebook page was overwhelmed by people complaining about the flag not staying lowered. A lot of them retired military. I guess that’s a big deal to them. I just don’t see the importance. In the past, haven’t we lowered the flag for things that we didn’t need to lower the flag for - which kind of cheapens the gesture.
It is not sad that he passed. What is sad is that he is glorified.
When you’re in the right, never back down and never quit.
Exactly
I thought Trump knew better, that's why I supported him. He just fell into the same trap Republicans have been falling into for years, thinking this will win him a single vote. It won't. It only demoralizes the base.
They followed decorum. Should have left it alone. This comes across as weak on the White House’s part, sadly.
So how does Trump win here.
Just makes him look like wuss, and everybody else is still just as pissed off at him as before.
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Yup. If he was gonna do this, he never should have raised it back in the first place.
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