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Desecration Boulevard (Open Thread)

by Betty Cracker|  June 19, 20185:31 pm| 115 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Assholes, General Stupidity

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God knows there are more serious problems in the world, but as an American who still retains fondness for our national colors, I must speak out on the ongoing molestation of the American flag by one Donald J. Trump. He’s been creeping up on Old Glory since well before the election and putting his hot, sticky, undersized mitts on the red, white and blue in a distressingly sexualized manner. Here’s a still photo depicting a creepy assault on the flag at a Florida campaign stop:

And here he is getting grotesquely handsy with Betsy Ross’s handiwork at another campaign event. What in the wide world of fuck is that all about? Look at the perverted smirk on the villain!

But today’s assault on an innocent flag took the weirdness to a whole new level:

Pres. Trump hugged an American flag at the conclusion of his remarks to the National Federation of Independent Business, during which he aggressively defended his administration's immigration enforcement policies. https://t.co/kNXigzk6H4 pic.twitter.com/cJil7GuZkf

— ABC News (@ABC) June 19, 2018

I know it’s painful to subject oneself to Trump’s hideous visage, but watch the GIF to the end. He’s humping the goddamned flag like a horny chihuahua sexually assaulting someone’s leg. It’s disturbing and gross, and someone should stop him from ever doing that again.

Open thread.

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  1. 1.

    terraformer

    June 19, 2018 at 5:34 pm

    Goddamn this guy is a buffoon.

  2. 2.

    Feebog

    June 19, 2018 at 5:36 pm

    Seeing those pictures made me nauseous. If any thing, he should be embracing a Russian flag, as that is where his loyalty lies.

  3. 3.

    MoCA Ace

    June 19, 2018 at 5:36 pm

    I Love Flag

  4. 4.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    June 19, 2018 at 5:38 pm

    A few years ago, Drumpf was asked by Steven Colbert what do the stripes on the flag represent, he replied he had no idea.

    Seriously, that’s basic knowledge drilled into everyone in grade schooler.

  5. 5.

    waspuppet

    June 19, 2018 at 5:38 pm

    Well, it was a more chaste embrace than the one he gave his daughter at the Republican convention.

  6. 6.

    Mary G

    June 19, 2018 at 5:39 pm

    It riles up the base and makes them think of big scary black men in football uniforms.

  7. 7.

    debbie

    June 19, 2018 at 5:39 pm

    Gross but not surprising. Must not have been any pussies in the room to grab.

  8. 8.

    Elizabelle

    June 19, 2018 at 5:39 pm

    Somebody suggested the flag is now part of the #metoo movement.

  9. 9.

    Roger Moore

    June 19, 2018 at 5:39 pm

    It’s so typical. He doesn’t give a damn about anything the flag stands for, so he feels compelled to go way overboard in behaving as if he cares about it in public. But he doesn’t understand how normal people think, so his going overboard in caring about the flag seems creepy and weird rather than anything like the way a normal person treats it.

  10. 10.

    Yarrow

    June 19, 2018 at 5:40 pm

    Fascism wraps itself in the flag.

  11. 11.

    realbtl

    June 19, 2018 at 5:41 pm

    I read that as Desolation Row. Grim music for grim times.

  12. 12.

    Elizabelle

    June 19, 2018 at 5:42 pm

    What a strange, strange thing that he feels the need to hug the flag.

    I think, ever more, that he is a Russian asset, trying to distract attention from that. Mueller is living in his head, but good.

    And he gets, on some level, that more people detest his border separations policy (you know, the one foisted on him by Democrats) than support it. So he’s humping the flag to show that he’s patriotic and protecting us.

    Trump’s only allegiance is Trump.

  13. 13.

    TenguPhule

    June 19, 2018 at 5:43 pm

    . He’s humping the goddamned flag like a horny chihuahua sexually assaulting someone’s leg.

    Gee thanks, its not like I needed to eat lunch or anything…..

  14. 14.

    zhena gogolia

    June 19, 2018 at 5:43 pm

    I wouldn’t watch that for all the tea in India.

  15. 15.

    JPL

    June 19, 2018 at 5:43 pm

    I’m not watching unless you promise to me that he didn’t hump it.

  16. 16.

    TenguPhule

    June 19, 2018 at 5:43 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Somebody suggested the flag is now part of the #metoo movement.

    Internet won.

  17. 17.

    Chyron HR

    June 19, 2018 at 5:44 pm

    during which he aggressively defended his administration’s immigration enforcement policies.

    Is he talking about the “Democrat law” that the Democrats in Congress are FORCING him to follow?

  18. 18.

    Yarrow

    June 19, 2018 at 5:45 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Trump’s only allegiance is Trump.

    Yep. You are also correct that he’s a Russian asset, as he has been since 1987. His apparently allegiance to Putin is all part of his allegiance to himself. He knows if he crosses Putin he’s hurting himself.

  19. 19.

    Betty Cracker

    June 19, 2018 at 5:45 pm

    @Roger Moore: That sounds about right. Yet another failure to mimic non-sociopath behavior.

  20. 20.

    TenguPhule

    June 19, 2018 at 5:45 pm

    House Republicans released a budget proposal Tuesday that would balance in nine years — but only by making large cuts to entitlement programs, including Medicare and Social Security, that Trump has vowed not to touch.

    The House Budget Committee is aiming to pass the blueprint later this week, but that may be as far as it goes this midterm election year. It’s not clear that GOP leaders will put the document on the House floor for a vote, and even if it were to pass the House, the budget would have little impact on actual spending levels.

    Nonetheless the budget serves as an expression of Republicans’ priorities at a time of rapidly rising deficits and debt. Although the nation’s growing indebtedness has been exacerbated by the GOP’s own policy decisions — including the new tax law, which most analyses say will add at least $1 trillion to the debt — Republicans on the Budget Committee said they felt a responsibility to put the nation on a sounder fiscal trajectory.

    “The time is now for our Congress to step up and confront the biggest challenge to our society,” said House Budget Chairman Steve Womack (R-Ark.). “There is not a bigger enemy on the domestic side than the debt and deficits.”

    I am shocked, shocked, to find that Republican tax cuts did in fact make our deficits worse.

  21. 21.

    KXB

    June 19, 2018 at 5:46 pm

    Reminded me of an episode of Mad Men. Flashback to when Roger and Don met, when Don was working at a furrier. Roger says, “I can’t say I know my furs that well. I know my mother had a Chinchilla, I was always on the verge of a romantic relationship with it.” Got the same vibe here.

  22. 22.

    Betty Cracker

    June 19, 2018 at 5:46 pm

    @JPL: He humps it. I swear to dog, at the end of that GIF, he humps the goddamned flag.

  23. 23.

    JPL

    June 19, 2018 at 5:46 pm

    Dan Drezner said that everyone needs hugs, and Trumps come from inanimate objects.

  24. 24.

    M4

    June 19, 2018 at 5:47 pm

    I can’t believe I broke my no-trump-video rule for this.

  25. 25.

    JPL

    June 19, 2018 at 5:48 pm

    @Betty Cracker: I bet he left a stain. ugh

  26. 26.

    TenguPhule

    June 19, 2018 at 5:48 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    I swear to dog, at the end of that GIF, he humps the goddamned flag.

    New Flag, new White House. Anything else we need to add to the list?

  27. 27.

    satby

    June 19, 2018 at 5:49 pm

    @Yarrow:

    Fascism wraps itself in the flag.

    this. As foretold.

  28. 28.

    Betty Cracker

    June 19, 2018 at 5:51 pm

    @TenguPhule: Just get Canada to come back and burn the White House down again so we can start from scratch once he’s gone. There ain’t enough Ajax in the world to remove the Trump stains.

  29. 29.

    Princess

    June 19, 2018 at 5:51 pm

    Apparently 27% of Americans approve of the policy of separating children from their parents at the border. 27%. That number again. It’s uncanny.

  30. 30.

    ruemara

    June 19, 2018 at 5:52 pm

    I’ve never had a drug problem but I feel like I’m having the worst LSD trip ever.

  31. 31.

    WaterGirl

    June 19, 2018 at 5:52 pm

    This man is not well in any way I can think of. Not physically. Not mentally. Not emotionally.

    No heart, no soul, no morality, no humanity. This pathetic excuse for a human being was elected as President. It still boggles my mind.

  32. 32.

    lamh36

    June 19, 2018 at 5:53 pm

    The muthaphucka is fuq’n crazy.

    BTW, Who wants to bet, DHHS/HSA have no idea where the girls and toddlers are!

    That’s why they need “two more days” watch then it’ll be Friday or a news dump late Friday. or it’ll be we’ll have it after the weekend

  33. 33.

    john fremont

    June 19, 2018 at 5:54 pm

    @Betty Cracker: ..and the flag will let him do it, because he’s the star of the show!

  34. 34.

    The Ancient Randonneur

    June 19, 2018 at 5:54 pm

    @Chyron HR: Yea, too bad those mean ol’ Democrats couldn’t make him defend the ACA in court

  35. 35.

    satby

    June 19, 2018 at 5:55 pm

    I had to leave the market earlier than I normally would have because I was getting more and more angry and unable to contain that anger with the low info red state morons there.

    I’m becoming much less of a nice person, as if I was ever nice to begin with. I’m not in the mood to let any of them think their bigotry and cruelty is universally shared.

  36. 36.

    Emma

    June 19, 2018 at 5:55 pm

    OK. That last paragraph made me nearly hurl. Especially since there wasn’t an iota of exaggeration in it.

  37. 37.

    schrodingers_cat

    June 19, 2018 at 5:56 pm

    He doesn’t even smile like human beings do, even his smile is a dominance gesture, he bares his fangs and scrunches his eyes.

  38. 38.

    Amir Khalid

    June 19, 2018 at 5:57 pm

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
    The original 13 states, right?

  39. 39.

    geg6

    June 19, 2018 at 5:57 pm

    @JPL:

    Don’t watch then!

  40. 40.

    schrodingers_cat

    June 19, 2018 at 5:57 pm

    @lamh36: Nelson was told to wait for two more weeks. WTF is going on here?

  41. 41.

    Elizabelle

    June 19, 2018 at 5:57 pm

    @TenguPhule: Air Force One. Fumigated like you cannot believe. It appalls me that Trump and Miller and Bannon and others have been jetting around on it. Le gag.

  42. 42.

    Wag

    June 19, 2018 at 5:57 pm

    Is that a TELEPROMPTER in that gif? Who in god’s name needs one of those?

  43. 43.

    schrodingers_cat

    June 19, 2018 at 5:58 pm

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Its a question on the naturalization exam.

  44. 44.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    June 19, 2018 at 5:58 pm

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Heh, and Trump was born on Flag Day.

  45. 45.

    trollhattan

    June 19, 2018 at 5:59 pm

    Sam Bee has the forbidden Stephen Miller audio. Enjoy!

  46. 46.

    M4

    June 19, 2018 at 5:59 pm

    @Elizabelle: on the off chance he leaves office in Marine One and not some more disgraceful method, we’ll need a new helicopter too.

  47. 47.

    delk

    June 19, 2018 at 6:01 pm

    That gif can be used in place of ipecac.

  48. 48.

    Roger Moore

    June 19, 2018 at 6:01 pm

    @TenguPhule:

    New Flag, new White House. Anything else we need to add to the list?

    New electorate.

  49. 49.

    lamh36

    June 19, 2018 at 6:01 pm

    @MotherJones
    Follow Follow @MotherJones
    More
    A 10-year-old with Down syndrome has been separated from her family at the border http://bit.ly/2JOxXU1

  50. 50.

    Roger Moore

    June 19, 2018 at 6:03 pm

    @lamh36:

    That’s why they need “two more days” watch then it’ll be Friday or a news dump late Friday. or it’ll be we’ll have it after the weekend

    They need two days to arrest enough more to set up a Potemkin site.

  51. 51.

    Yarrow

    June 19, 2018 at 6:04 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: He’s an ill person.

    Completely OT–I saw your question about how to make leaf mulch and that you got several answers. You can spend money and get something to grind the leaves up into smaller pieces and it’ll mulch faster. You don’t have to do that, though. Nature doesn’t. You can just pile them up. Make sure they stay damp and toss them from time to time. Air helps them break down faster too, so that’s why tossing it helps. If you have a larger enough yard, designate an area for a big leaf pile or pen and just make sure it gets some water. Remember the top layer can dry out and serve as thatch to keep the rain from going down into the pile, so that’s why tossing it can help.

  52. 52.

    Mary G

    June 19, 2018 at 6:05 pm

    People on Twitter are already organizing a boycott and shaming of businesses that belong to the group he was speaking to.

  53. 53.

    jl

    June 19, 2018 at 6:05 pm

    OMG, the gif won’t stop. Help!

    The hostage drama has taken spotlight off other dirt, incompetence, dishonesty and mayhem over the last few days.

    Tenughule mentioned one, above. Let them bring on Medicare and Social Security cuts for the midterms if they want to.

    Trump has queued up tariffs on another $400 of goods for trade war with China ($200 B now and another $200 B if China does not surrender). I guess trade wars are easy if all you have to do is sit your obese ass in a chair and order up lists of goods from your flunkies. Trumpsters are not targeting the goods at all, which will mean maximum disruption with smaller chance of success. So, yeah, if you are going to do a stupid policy, why not do it in a stupid way. No low energy dumbshit stuff for Trump.

    Wilbur Ross lied about his divestment, and is corrupt and has massive conflict of interest.

    Stone and his pals caught lying about contacts with Russians during Trump campaign (though I think BJ covered that).

  54. 54.

    lamh36

    June 19, 2018 at 6:05 pm

    The grifiting begins.

    @bpolitics
    Follow Follow @bpolitics
    More
    BREAKING: The Trump administration plans to pay a Texas nonprofit nearly half a billion dollars this year to care for immigrant children who were detained crossing the U.S. border illegally, according to government data https://bloom.bg/2JQwiNK

  55. 55.

    Elizabelle

    June 19, 2018 at 6:05 pm

    Wonderful T storm (gentle one so far) rolling through. Dropped the temp at least 20 degrees, rapidly. We were under a heat warning today (mid 90s; felt like 101).

    Applause for almost summer thunderstorms.

    This summer is gonna feel like murder weather, with all the tension and flag humping going on.

  56. 56.

    Jeffro

    June 19, 2018 at 6:07 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: He looks pretty demonic, even to this atheist. That picture of him meeting post-election with Mitt Romney was like seeing the devil himself receiving visitors.

  57. 57.

    jl

    June 19, 2018 at 6:07 pm

    @trollhattan: As long as she doesn’t call Miller something rude, that is OK with me.

  58. 58.

    Chyron HR

    June 19, 2018 at 6:07 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Sam Bee has the forbidden Stephen Miller audio.

    The 15-minute version of Fly Like An Eagle?

  59. 59.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    June 19, 2018 at 6:08 pm

    Katie Hunt @ kasie
    As realDonaldTrump walks through the Capitol on his way to meet with Republicans, someone yells across the Rotunda: “Mr. President, f— you!”, per AlexNBCNews, frankthorp

    IIRC it took five years for somebody to get to “Go fuck yourself, Mr Cheney”

  60. 60.

    Elizabelle

    June 19, 2018 at 6:08 pm

    @M4: I like your thinking. “More disgraceful method.” In cuffs. Escorted by unsmiling folks who look like Men in Black extras.

    Tumbrels, of course. And there is always the hearse, for when he strokes out … le sigh.

  61. 61.

    schrodingers_cat

    June 19, 2018 at 6:08 pm

    @Jeffro: Isn’t the devil supposed to be charming? You said demon, not devil.

  62. 62.

    Ohio Mom

    June 19, 2018 at 6:09 pm

    @lamh36: You can be pretty sure she isn’t the only incarcerated child with a disability; Down syndrome facial features are just very well known, there are many more disabilities that can escape an untrained eye.

    For one, if at least one in 100 kids have autism, well do the math. That’s a lot of autistics in those cages. In our public schools, something like 10-12% of students are on an IEP., so ahould give you an idea of how common disability is.

  63. 63.

    Elizabelle

    June 19, 2018 at 6:09 pm

    @Jeffro: That was a photo for the ages. Cat who ate the canary and is looking at the next bite.

  64. 64.

    Elizabelle

    June 19, 2018 at 6:11 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: Musical, even. Plays the fiddle, if the Charlie Daniels Band is to be believed.

    Trump is the troll under the bridge.

  65. 65.

    jl

    June 19, 2018 at 6:11 pm

    Oh, and I forgot, Trump wants another military space command. Not the Air Force, he wants different branches to join the fun. Coast Guard and Navy? Some SciFi productions have spaceships that look a little ‘navaly’. Trump been watching Starship Troopers. Looks like Mattis lost that one, he didn’t think a good idea.

    Edit: will the new force be named “TrumpStar Troopers”? Will there be hot chicks?

    I heard a tape of Trump babbling nonsense when he signed his Starship troopers order, and when he signed some order about what appears to be a good initiative on cleaning up space junk (I guess something from the competent technical people left in the administration). I wonder if he has any ideas at all about what he was signing. Trump babbled about waste fraud and abuse, and ‘politics’ and bureaucracy was causing space junk. Made no sense.

  66. 66.

    The Dangerman

    June 19, 2018 at 6:11 pm

    I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump WANTS to get 25th Amendmented out of there; there are lots of golf courses to play and lots of places where he’d like to place his balls. He got his tax cut and he sure as hell isn’t getting a wall; he might be breaking down.

  67. 67.

    Mary G

    June 19, 2018 at 6:12 pm

    @jl: Yep, Politico is up today with a long article about Ryan Zinke’s wife and foundation and the CEO of Halliburton are trying to put together a development in Whitefish, MT that “some say” (should be every ethics official we talked to) is a massive conflict of interest in any number of ways. Zinke’s foundation is donated part of a park they gave to the city for a parking lot. What slimy swamp creatures all these people are. I need a shower just from reading it.

  68. 68.

    schrodingers_cat

    June 19, 2018 at 6:12 pm

    @Elizabelle: Slander! What have kittehs done to you. No animal deserves to be compared to the Orangosity.

  69. 69.

    Roger Moore

    June 19, 2018 at 6:12 pm

    @Elizabelle:
    I still expect there’s a decent chance he heads to Russia instead of America at the end of one of his trips.

  70. 70.

    Yarrow

    June 19, 2018 at 6:13 pm

    @Roger Moore: The people flying Air Force One will not fly him there.

  71. 71.

    zhena gogolia

    June 19, 2018 at 6:14 pm

    @The Dangerman:

    You put on your rose-colored glasses this morning, didn’t you?

  72. 72.

    hellslittlestangel

    June 19, 2018 at 6:14 pm

    He’s bragged about sexually assaulting women. At least the flag is an inanimate object — just a great big Kleenex, really.

  73. 73.

    JPL

    June 19, 2018 at 6:14 pm

    @lamh36: I used up my allotment of f’s today, but just fuckem . .

  74. 74.

    raven

    June 19, 2018 at 6:15 pm

    @Chyron HR: Gangster of `love is better!

  75. 75.

    Roger Moore

    June 19, 2018 at 6:15 pm

    @Jeffro:

    That picture of him meeting post-election with Mitt Romney was like seeing the devil himself receiving visitors.

    The one with his hand on the glowing globe was really freaky, too.

  76. 76.

    Ohio Mom

    June 19, 2018 at 6:16 pm

    This post reminds me that at the last demonstration I attended (Trump was at a machine tool shop in my neighborhood touting his tax cuts), the Tea Partiers were across the street waving flags, occasionally shouting out, “Where are your flags?”

    After that, I bought half a dozen small flags, about 8” across, to take to my next demonstration (looks like it will be a week from Saturday). I will not let those thugs claim the flag for themselves, or disparage my patriotism. I say, let’s all take flags with us, if for no other reason it will confuse those low lifes.

  77. 77.

    dm

    June 19, 2018 at 6:16 pm

    @ruemara: gosh, this episode of Black Mirror sucks, and feels like it’s never going to end.

  78. 78.

    NotMax

    June 19, 2018 at 6:17 pm

    May have been mentioned earlier; not entirely up to snuff on all threads (emphasis mine).

    The Trump administration has likely lost track of nearly 6,000 unaccompanied migrant children, thousands more than lawmakers were alerted to last month, according to a McClatchy review of federal data. Source

  79. 79.

    Elizabelle

    June 19, 2018 at 6:17 pm

    @Roger Moore: That would be fascinating. A good end to this saga, if not Trump in prison for life, along with all his grafty shitty associates. Trump flying off to Russia.

  80. 80.

    Ryan

    June 19, 2018 at 6:18 pm

    Most terrorists use human shields, but I guess he’s realized the awesome power he has to wreck everything we love.

  81. 81.

    Brickley Paiste

    June 19, 2018 at 6:21 pm

    The flag thing – that Trump, he’s a bit of an odd fellow.

  82. 82.

    trollhattan

    June 19, 2018 at 6:21 pm

    @Chyron HR:
    Just so long as there’s no funky shit goin’ down in the city.

  83. 83.

    NotMax

    June 19, 2018 at 6:21 pm

    “Red and white are too mundane as far as colors go. Change them to gold and silver. Bigly classy. Let’s get right on that.”

  84. 84.

    JPL

    June 19, 2018 at 6:23 pm

    @NotMax: Nelle said some have been living with relatives, who chose not to call in. I wonder why.

  85. 85.

    waspuppet

    June 19, 2018 at 6:23 pm

    @Elizabelle: My two big Trump post-presidency predictions have been, and remain:

    1) About 50-50 he lives out the rest of his life in another country;

    2) Almost certain that he will say he never actually meant to win. (Mind you, this will not come in the form of a confession or an admission. It will either be intended to make his “accomplishments” look even more mighty; or, more likely, be delivered in the manner of a high-drama pre-adolescent screaming that he didn’t ask to be born before slamming his bedroom door.)

  86. 86.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    June 19, 2018 at 6:24 pm

    @JPL: We get an allotment of f’s? Who made that rule(my bet is jl)? Fuckem.

  87. 87.

    BoDiddleySquat

    June 19, 2018 at 6:24 pm

    @lamh36: HHS/DHS have blocked several Senators and Congresspeople from entering Trump’s Children’s Concentration Camps.

    How can this possibly be allowed?

  88. 88.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    June 19, 2018 at 6:24 pm

    @NotMax:
    That 6,000 figure, that’s part of the ones that were separated from their parents, right? We know from the SecHS that we have 10-12,000 in custody. That’s a 50% loss!

  89. 89.

    TriassicSands

    June 19, 2018 at 6:25 pm

    Trump “loves” the flag…and absolutely none of the positive things it is supposed to represent.

  90. 90.

    NotMax

    June 19, 2018 at 6:28 pm

    As it’s an Open Thread, am elated to find the 1994 BBC production of Martin Chuzzlewit is on Amazon Prime.

    Have wanted to rewatch that for ages. Paul Scofield is always excellent (duh!); Pete Postlethwaite is frickin’ amazing. Every bit as fine a production as memory from nearly 25 years ago recalls it.

  91. 91.

    trollhattan

    June 19, 2018 at 6:28 pm

    @BoDiddleySquat:
    I dunno, hard to believe congresscritters and utterly powerless to access federal facilities on demand.

    We seem to be getting into “How many divisions does the pope have?” territory. Maher (I know) had a good New Rules a few episodes back where he speculated it wouldn’t matter how far up the authority ladder efforts to remove him from office went, no matter who he’d just say “Fuck you, I’m not leaving!”

  92. 92.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    June 19, 2018 at 6:29 pm

    @Brickley Paiste:
    Hi Steve!

  93. 93.

    Mandalay

    June 19, 2018 at 6:31 pm

    Somewhat OT, but I find it surprising that nobody seems offended by the use of the Stars and Stripes as an underwear design. Not that it bothers me, but with all the reverence for our flag, how come it is apparently OK to put it right by your shit hole?

  94. 94.

    Bigby

    June 19, 2018 at 6:34 pm

    He’s hugging the flag because Miller or Bannon showed him the “Trump as Pepe the Frog hugging the flag” GIF that came out after he first creepily hugged the flag in 2016. He probably didn’t like himself portrayed as a frog, but he no doubt LOVED the screaming FUCK YOU to ‘libtards’ and screaming “Ich bin mit Ihnen” back to the Pepe/KEK deplorable shitlords eating his concentration camp stuff up with a spoon. Google the images of him as Pepe (or not, if you want to not retch).

  95. 95.

    Mike in NC

    June 19, 2018 at 6:36 pm

    Trump is a degenerate: hugging the flag like a moron while he wipes his fat ass with the Constitution.

  96. 96.

    hilts

    June 19, 2018 at 6:37 pm

    He’s been creeping up on Old Glory since well before the election and putting his hot, sticky, undersized mitts on the red, white and blue in a distressingly sexualized manner. Here’s a still photo depicting a creepy assault on the flag at a Florida campaign stop: And here he is getting grotesquely handsy with Betsy Ross’s handiwork at another campaign event. What in the wide world of fuck is that all about?

    Betty, this is about Donald Trump being a vexillosexual (someone who wants to have sex with a flag). He’s one sick bastard.

  97. 97.

    NotMax

    June 19, 2018 at 6:41 pm

    Even the mostly out of touch G.H.W. Bush announced afterwards that his photo op visit to a flag factory had been a step too far.

  98. 98.

    NotMax

    June 19, 2018 at 6:44 pm

    @hilts

    Well, he doesn’t have to shell out hush money to a flag…

    ;)

    Vexillosexual, while precise, is too cumbersome. Howzabout flaggot?

  99. 99.

    satby

    June 19, 2018 at 6:44 pm

    @JPL: the relatives are afraid they’ll be swept up and deported too, possibly. Even if they have a green card. Would you trust them if you were foreign born? I wouldn’t.

  100. 100.

    Kathleen

    June 19, 2018 at 6:46 pm

    @TriassicSands: He pretends it’s Ivanka.

  101. 101.

    Paul W.

    June 19, 2018 at 6:48 pm

    He’s humping the goddamned flag like a horny chihuahua sexually assaulting someone’s leg.

    Betty, I just needed it to be know that I will never scrape that image from my head. It is a great turn of phrase though

  102. 102.

    NotMax

    June 19, 2018 at 6:54 pm

    The man who wasn’t there.

    Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday abruptly canceled a briefing for senators scheduled for Wednesday about the deal with North Korea that President Donald Trump has hailed as a breakthrough — even while the details of the agreement remain vague.

    Senate leaders informed colleagues that the briefing may be rescheduled for next week, though no date had been set, according to aides involved in the scheduling.

    Pompeo has also not yet committed to a briefing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the committee with jurisdiction over any deal.
    [snip]
    In a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing prior to the Singapore summit, Pompeo vowed that Congress would handle North Korea differently. Specifically, he said: “It is absolutely the case that it is our intention to achieve an agreement that would be put before the United States Senate.”

    Senate Democratic aides said the briefing’s cancellation was cause for concern.

    “If this is such a great landmark deal, it’s troubling they don’t want to come and tell us about it,” said one aide. Another was more skeptical: “Unless they (Republican leadership) drag him down here, he’s not going to come.” Source

    Frantically trying to put icing on a nothingburger?

  103. 103.

    TenguPhule

    June 19, 2018 at 7:13 pm

    @jl:

    Trump has queued up tariffs on another $400 of goods for trade war with China ($200 B now and another $200 B if China does not surrender).

    $450 billion. You missed the initial $50 billion that started the whole mess.

    Out of $500 billion in total imports from China.

    This does not end well for us.

  104. 104.

    hilts

    June 19, 2018 at 7:14 pm

    @NotMax:

    Howzabout flaggot?

    Yeah, that does roll off the tongue more easily.

    In the unlikely event Trump ends up in prison, he’ll be scheduling conjugal visits with the Stars and Stripes.

  105. 105.

    TenguPhule

    June 19, 2018 at 7:17 pm

    @trollhattan:

    We seem to be getting into “How many divisions does the pope have?” territory.

    We’ve been there since Jan 21, 2017. Its just that now people are starting to realize Trump wasn’t joking.

  106. 106.

    Aleta

    June 19, 2018 at 7:39 pm

    Gif didn’t play for me, but I think this is it (though earlier):
    https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1009134346442141696

    He’s pretending so hard that he’s not a traitor. And this is what he comes up with. Forcing himself on the country and its flag.

  107. 107.

    Aleta

    June 19, 2018 at 7:42 pm

    @jl: Tell him the space troops want to applaud him in front of cameras, put him in a rocket and wave goodbye.

  108. 108.

    VeniceRiley

    June 19, 2018 at 7:53 pm

    @ruemara:

    I’ve never had a drug problem but I feel like I’m having the worst LSD trip ever.

    I feel like I fell into an Alternate Future History novel and can’t find my way back out.

  109. 109.

    MoCA Ace

    June 19, 2018 at 7:58 pm

    When my son was like four years old he would salute eagles when we saw them on the river while fishing. This is how a toddler shows his patriotism!

  110. 110.

    Aleta

    June 19, 2018 at 8:05 pm

    @trollhattan: Ack.
    Seriously, 12 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woLQI8X2R6Y

  111. 111.

    Ruckus

    June 19, 2018 at 9:01 pm

    Let’s see if I can get this right.
    MOTHERFUCKINGASSFUCKINGSHITHEADASSWIPES.

    Close enough.
    I took an oath to serve this country. I didn’t take it lightly, nor was I happy about it. But serve I did. I did whatever was asked of me, went where I was sent, ate the crappy food. All because I believed in this country. I’m about done believing in it. I know we can recover. But will it be in my lifetime?

  112. 112.

    Ruckus

    June 19, 2018 at 9:15 pm

    @Ruckus:
    I hate to sound like or be a downer. I have to stay positive because of my health, falling off that cliff of despair makes me far worse than a normal crappy day. It makes me physically sick. Yesterday morning I couldn’t type. I tried but my fingers wouldn’t stay on the keys and I couldn’t control where they went. That’s my life, it’s OK, that’s how it is. No one did this to me, it isn’t anyones fault. It’s shit but it’s life. Some are better than mine, some are far worse.

    But things we can control, things we can make better, even if only a little bit, to turn around and make those far, far worse because you are a sick fuck of a human being and you have to bring along a crew of like minded asswipes? And they don’t even seem to be in it for the money. WHATTHEEVERLOVINGFUCK.

  113. 113.

    SWMBO

    June 19, 2018 at 9:32 pm

    He’s dry humping the flag like Peggy Noonan dry humped Reagan’s coffin at the graveside.

  114. 114.

    misterpuff

    June 20, 2018 at 2:39 am

    Just imagine what he’d do if it was The Stars and Bars……

  115. 115.

    mere mortal

    June 20, 2018 at 2:21 pm

    …like a horny chihuahua sexually assaulting someone’s leg. It’s disturbing and gross, and someone should stop him from ever doing that again.

    Might I recommend a rolled-up newspaper? It seems he is far more afraid of newspapers than the chihuahua would be.

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