As I’ve discovered, flying Old Glory makes people assume you support Trump.
Former president Donald Trump hugs the American flag ahead of his remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 24. I’m not easily flabbergasted, but the other day my flabber got good and gasted. I was riding my beach bike, the one with the 2-by-3-foot American flag flying off the back. I fly it because I … love my country and love my spine, and the flapping flag means fewer cars flatten me.
So I’m pedaling along the street and the Stars and Stripes are whipping behind me, and I hear a honk. That’s when a guy on the passenger side of a white 4x4 Ram truck leans out and yells, “Yeah! Go Trump!”Me? He can’t be yelling that at me. I look around for somebody in a MAGA hat or a T-shirt with Trump’s mug shot, but there’s nobody. And that’s when it hits me.Then, a week later, it happens again, only in reverse.
And if the former president doesn’t quite own it, he has definitely co-opted it. Nowadays, if you see a jacked-high pickup with four American flags, you either honk proudly or move three lanes away. There’s a house on my block with a giant Trump flag hanging from the roof. Do you ever see aflag? Me neither, not once. Online, you can find dozens of American flags for sale with Donald Trump’s name or face on them. Good luck finding one with Biden’s.
Presidential candidates have always been glad to wrap themselves in the flag, of course. But with Trump, it has never looked more like a Hollywood prop. Trump doesn’t care about the flag any more than he cares about being a Republican. What he cares about is how he looks holding it.I was with Trump one time, 20 years ago, when he kept mis-introducing me as “the guy who runs Sports Illustrated” or “this guy owns SI!” I just worked at the place.
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