President Trump’s fondness for getting to second base with the American flag is among his stranger predilections, one that you might assume wouldn’t necessarily be celebrated on official government social media accounts. But nope! Rather than marking Flag Day with a nice photo of the Red, White and Blue flying high over a quaint schoolhouse or some amber waves of grain, the official White House Twitter account decided to pay tribute to Old Glory by posting a photo of Trump wrapping his arms around the flag in a loving embrace.

Trump himself took to Twitter on Saturday to further honor the flag by endorsing a rollback of our First Amendment right to free speech. "All in for Senator Steve Daines as he proposes an Amendment for a strong BAN on burning our American Flag," the president tweeted . "A no brainer!"

The president was referring to a proposed constitutional amendment introduced by the Republican Montana senator and North Dakota senator Kevin Cramer that would permit Congress to make it illegal to symbolically burn the flag. The measure would require a constitutional amendment because the Supreme Court already found in a 1989 decision that desecrating the flag was protected under the Constitution's First Amendment right to free speech.

It's funny how folks who get so very angry about protesting college kids are somehow fine with this particular infringement on free speech rights, but the senators’ proposed amendment isn’t likely to pass anyway. Changing the Constitution is pretty tough to do . At least 38 states would have to be on board, and there hasn’t been an amendment passed since 1992.

And Twitter users, of course, had an absolute field day with the White House’s bizarre Flag Day tweet.

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Is that what you’re supposed to do to the flag? — Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) June 14, 2019

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This is not what Betsy Ross intended #FlagDay2019 https://t.co/Vlk32WUke1 — Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) June 14, 2019

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That photo intensifies the disgust most veterans and active duty military feel when they see you treating our flag with such disrespect. The flag is not to be fondled like some porn star. Despicable. — American Veteran (@amvetsupport) June 14, 2019

Gabrielle Bruney Gabrielle Bruney is a writer and editor for Esquire, where she focuses on politics and culture.

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