Trump revisits Pledge of Allegiance controversy: People are 'sick & tired' of 'stupidity and...
Source: The Hill
Trump revisits Pledge of Allegiance controversy: People are 'sick and tired' of 'stupidity and disloyalty'
BY CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO - 07/11/19 09:27 AM EDT
President Trump on Thursday returned to the debate over the Pledge of Allegiance in a Minnesota city, saying the practice is "under siege."
Link to tweet
A group of protestors gathered outside the city council building in St. Paul, Minn. on Monday to demand the Pledge of Allegiance be restored as a requirement at council meetings, the Pioneer Press in St. Paul reported.
The session they protested was meant to re-address the councils unanimous decision to drop the pledge requirement from meetings.
Trump in a tweet earlier this week called the protestors "patriots."
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/452574-trump-eyes-pledge-of-allegiance-controversy-in-minnesota-people-are
no_hypocrisy
(45,771 posts)You sure you're going to win?
Freethinker65
(9,929 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,360 posts)Non-citizens do not have to honor the flag.
eggplant
(3,891 posts)PatSeg
(46,773 posts)We ARE "sick and tired of stupidity and disloyalty". Everything he says tends to stick to him, like the old childhood taunt "I'm rubber, you're glue".
mwb970
(11,299 posts)This is what conservatives ALWAYS do! Remember the Great Flag Lapel Pin Controversy of 2008? They fiercely defend the Pledge. They are enraged by flag burning. Yet their hero in the White House is in the process of disassembling and destroying everything these symbols stand for!
It's maddening. Weren't these awful people supposed to be Raptured away years ago? I am SO ready to be Left Behind.
Yavin4
(35,354 posts)It's kind of hard to get people to vote for more tax cuts for the rich on that issue alone.
dustyscamp
(2,221 posts)His party needs to be voted out and dissolved
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)subterranean
(3,427 posts)If they don't, that is just more proof of their disloyalty to this country!
Seriously, I bet Trump wouldn't be able to recite the Pledge accurately without reading it (and maybe not even then).
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Of a despot.
Alkene
(752 posts)committed to multiple illegal, immoral, elective wars of never-ending aggression and occupation-- I might consider my allegiance to it, but probably not because I'm not keen on associating myself with the murders of hundreds of thousands, torture and the horrendous decline in quality of life our MIC imposes on the world in order to prop up the petrodollar and extract unimaginable wealth for the few.
But I'm not bitter.
Initech
(99,909 posts)Not everything needs to give you an Americagasm patriotic boner every time you so much as breathe. And any time anyone so much as looks at a flag funny, that doesn't mean they're disrespecting it. The first amendment guarantees a right to protest, you know, and that's one of the most patriotic things you can do.
dchill
(38,315 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,113 posts)Accepting help for elections from a foreign country? Check.
Lip service to patriotism? Check.
Skittles
(152,964 posts)Trump knows the easiest way to manipulate his base is to keep them all torqued up with a freedom-boner and in a constant state of outrage over feelings issues and things that arent even happening while he actively dismantles the Constitution and the system of checks & balances.
Norbert
(6,030 posts)It's happening in a small part of Minneapolis so, of course, the rest of the country won't be far behind unless we do something. And never mind the mulling over setting fire to the constitution.
Get used to it. The so-called War on Christmas will be restoked on cue in a few months.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)And as George Carlin famously said, "I'll leave symbols to the symbol-minded."