Dragging our flag down to the level of North Korea

My fury at seeing all those images of the American Flag being downgraded to being placed on equal footing with the flag of the murderous North Korean regime is exceeded only by the fact that I’m not hearing blunt language from Democratic leaders directly calling out our “Presidenter” for disrespecting our flag.

Trump has gleefully trashed Americans peacefully protesting during the National Anthem to call attention to a very real, very old & ongoing problem of police violence towards the public they are supposed to serve — directed mostly at non-white Americans. Among the insults/complaints Trump repeatedly claims those protesting “disrespect our flag.”

I don’t know who made the decision to have these backdrops of the United States’ and North Korean flags side by side, or that logo with portions of them together but that person(s) should be fired. Now. If Trump himself ordered or approved it, well I’d gladly support the House impeaching and the Senate convicting his worthless butt and tossing him out of Office — with a resounding “You’re Fired” from the Chief Justice as a means of announcing the verdict.

North Korea got all it wanted and more from the Singapore photo op — it doesn’t merit being rated as a summit as far as I’m concerned. North Korea would have gotten incalculable (and positive — for North Korea) propaganda value just from photos of Kim and Trump shaking hands, or even standing together. Many experts, and even regular folks not schooled in the ways of diplomacy had concerns from the time the “summit” was announced that we were handing away something “yuge” that North Korean dictators have craved for seventy years — the diplomatic legitimacy that comes with a meeting with a U.S. President. Without so much as a thought Trump gave that away. He didn’t even bargain. All that talk about seeing concrete steps from North Korea as a prelude to the meeting went by the wayside, so desperate was Trump for a photo op he could use in his self-campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize. It’s eating him up inside like acid that Obama has one and he doesn’t.

Trump was willing to give up anything, anything at all to get his photo op. Including the dignity of the Oval Office and yes, even the stature of the American flag. I don’t know if North Korea asked for our two country’s flags to be displayed side by side or if our side proposed it. Either way it degrades what our flag stands for to have it placed on equal footing with the flag of the regime that stands as the most abusive of human rights and freedom on the face of this earth.

Trump has disrespected our flag. The same person (yes, I’m being overly generous to Trump) who trashes the First Amendment in the process of trashing ballplayers peacefully protesting saying their exercising Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms “disrespect our flag” has not just stood there dragging what our flag represents (way) downwards to the level of the most horrific regime on earth, but praised it’s leader.

North Korea got everything it wanted and more. WE got what Trump wanted, a photo op he thinks he can campaign on. We the people of the United States, and free countries around the world got nothing. In fact we got less than nothing. North Korea? They didn’t give up a thing — that vague promise to “denuclearize” is literally as vague as it gets, more so than prior agreements others have made with that country. WE gave up the symbolism of freedom the Oval Office and the Office of the President once meant, untold millions of dollars to North Korea for the return of the remains of American servicemen killed in the Korean war (that’s the going rate btw, a million per set of returned remains has been the norm in the past) and even something both North Korea and China have long desired — stoppage of joint military exercises between U.S. and ROK troops. The next one was scheduled for August btw.

Mr. “Art of the Deal” gave up everything North Korea wanted and not only got nothing in return, he gave up a great deal, and in the case of the joint military exercises blindsided our allies in the process. To top it all off he eagerly took part in photo after photo of our flag being put down on equal footing with North Korea’s to memorialize the travesty.

THAT my friends is disrespecting the American flag.

The WH Press Corps needs to hammer Sarah Sanders about this, and do so every time in the future that Trump trashes athletes peacefully protesting during the National Anthem. State it as a fact that Trump has disrespected the American flag because he has!

So should our leaders, and our “talking heads.” Starting today. Right now in fact.