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surfered

(14,310 posts)
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 11:25 AM Aug 2025

In an Oval Office press conference, President Trump claimed flag burning is going on all over the country.

I've done a google search of news and can only find one incident. Please fact check me.

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In an Oval Office press conference, President Trump claimed flag burning is going on all over the country. (Original Post) surfered Aug 2025 OP
What's left of his mind is gone.... Lovie777 Aug 2025 #1
Delusions are a symptom of psychosis bucolic_frolic Aug 2025 #2
Is it psychosis, syphilis, dementia Jerry2144 Aug 2025 #9
I saw this right before I turned him off. Haven't seen or heard anything about flag burning but we will now Deuxcents Aug 2025 #3
They now can regularly make their own reality Cosmocat Aug 2025 #4
AI videos and photos newdeal2 Aug 2025 #18
This is how you properly dispose of an American flag Arazi Aug 2025 #5
MSM will echo this endlessly BoRaGard Aug 2025 #6
I guess we know what the Idiot Demographic in the country will be riled up about this week Torchlight Aug 2025 #7
He makes up his own facts and the MAGAs believe everything he says. Diamond_Dog Aug 2025 #8
And DC is a hotbed of crime, while Birmingham AL is a pastoral paradise. Scrivener7 Aug 2025 #10
chicago is a killing field. ffs. mopinko Aug 2025 #19
Well, gee golly, that flag fell right on my book of matches. Poof! RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Aug 2025 #11
Does he mean the trump vance 2024 flag? Norbert Aug 2025 #12
But did the reporters ask about his golf? UTUSN Aug 2025 #13
It's the Boy Scouts. LastDemocratInSC Aug 2025 #14
H W Bush rode his Flag Desecration Amendment to the Constitution all the way to the White House. Midnight Writer Aug 2025 #15
"Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use Ping Tung Aug 2025 #16
Item number 199 on the Epstein distraction list. yourout Aug 2025 #17
I refuse to replace my 'dying' flag while he's in office. spanone Aug 2025 #20

Jerry2144

(3,319 posts)
9. Is it psychosis, syphilis, dementia
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 11:43 AM
Aug 2025

Or some combination of all three? That idiot certainly has a poorly functioning brain, regardless. Maybe his rectum empties into his cranium, then flows out the mouth?

Deuxcents

(27,715 posts)
3. I saw this right before I turned him off. Haven't seen or heard anything about flag burning but we will now
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 11:29 AM
Aug 2025

Cosmocat

(15,473 posts)
4. They now can regularly make their own reality
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 11:30 AM
Aug 2025

And, we have to live in the actual reality that that their delusions greatly impact.

newdeal2

(5,620 posts)
18. AI videos and photos
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 12:17 PM
Aug 2025

Dangerous stuff. I guarantee he is being fed AI junk to form these opinions.

Arazi

(8,887 posts)
5. This is how you properly dispose of an American flag
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 11:31 AM
Aug 2025

Guessing there is a lot of flag burning going on tbh

BoRaGard

(7,591 posts)
6. MSM will echo this endlessly
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 11:32 AM
Aug 2025

never bothering to look up from their well-paid republicon cappuccinos and to check the bullshit meter

Torchlight

(7,066 posts)
7. I guess we know what the Idiot Demographic in the country will be riled up about this week
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 11:32 AM
Aug 2025

Another nothing-burger served to them by their rapey-waiter. Lots of 'anecdotes' about burning flags will be asserted this week. One or two of them might even be loosely based on true events.

Diamond_Dog

(41,068 posts)
8. He makes up his own facts and the MAGAs believe everything he says.
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 11:32 AM
Aug 2025

It’s worked so well all this time, why should he stop?

Scrivener7

(60,079 posts)
10. And DC is a hotbed of crime, while Birmingham AL is a pastoral paradise.
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 11:49 AM
Aug 2025

These things can easily be fact checked, but our press doesn't EVER bother.

mopinko

(73,959 posts)
19. chicago is a killing field. ffs.
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 01:07 PM
Aug 2025

he will b met w staunch resistance if he sends troops here.

LastDemocratInSC

(4,253 posts)
14. It's the Boy Scouts.
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 12:06 PM
Aug 2025

Many scout troops accept worn US flags and burn them in a prescribed ceremony.

Midnight Writer

(25,754 posts)
15. H W Bush rode his Flag Desecration Amendment to the Constitution all the way to the White House.
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 12:06 PM
Aug 2025

It was very popular at the time and riled up the willies of a lot of folks.

Of course, as soon as he took office it was never mentioned again.

Ping Tung

(4,370 posts)
16. "Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 12:14 PM
Aug 2025
“Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.”

― Arundhati Roy

spanone

(142,064 posts)
20. I refuse to replace my 'dying' flag while he's in office.
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 01:09 PM
Aug 2025

It's rotting just like our freedoms.

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