Has Trump ruined the National Anthem for you too ?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

I stood for it during the tenure of every president . Now if I was in a position where I have to stand I would feel I was paying homage to Trump.

He ruins everything.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. No, but he's ruined red ties for me. nt

[Hortensis]

25. Yes, if my husband had one it'd be gone.

Also tubby older men with orangy-white hair. Saw one the other day and found myself swiveling away, realized why after.

[RandomAccess]

2. No, not at all

He's ruined my state of mind most days, but not the Anthem.

[populistdriven]

3. No, its my ringtone and I kneel when the 1 person I know calls me

[unblock]

4. as has been noted before, donnie's not an aberration. he's just more obvious.

i have an american flag that i flew on the front of my house for years. i had a lot of people assume i was a republican as a result. frankly, there are few insults worse than being mistaken for a republican!

note that this before donnie was involved in politics. republicans have long claimed partisan ownership of both patriotism and religion.

i'm not categorically opposed to flying the flag, but the holder broke a few years back and i've never felt any particular need to fix it.

[Maeve]

8. I tend to fly my Irish flag more than my American one

It has a whole 'nother meaning when they call me a 'republican' for that!

[unblock]

10. lol!

here's a song for ya by a famous, uh, brit.

[Maeve]

13. And from a friend of his

[unblock]

14. ooh, a new one on me!

thanks! unusual for paul to be political in his music.

i'll give it a listen when i get the chance!

[msongs]

5. jingoism of the worst sort. hard to ruin that more than its already ruined nt

[nancy1942]

6. Pretty much.

[malaise]

7. He ruins everything

There - that's it

[mia]

9. Yes.

I thought this last week as I was standing for the Pledge at an elementary school end of the year program. Thank goodness they didn't play the National Anthem.

[thbobby]

11. I used to stand every time I heard the National Anthem

and then I had my seventh birthday. It is a song. Those basking in nationalistic fervor should learn and live the constitution. Freedom and all that leftwing stuff.

[CentralMass]

12. No. The anthem and the flag will survive tRump.

[kimbutgar]

15. I am a substitute teacher and every time I am at a school that recites it I am no longer proud to be

An American with this cretin in the White House.

Him and his supporters are insane and I especially go crazy when I hear one of his supporters say he is the greatest president ever with the most accomplishments ever. They call into these progressive talk shows on Sirius and spout this garbage. Makes me want to barf.

[Adrahil]

16. No.... but I am deeply ashamed of my countrymen right now.... NT

[Awsi Dooger]

17. It's now easily the most awkward moment at sporting events

Right wingers are everywhere and they don't shy away from related comments. People who don't attend those events wouldn't have any idea the extent of it: "Get on your feet. Everybody on your feet. Otherwise get out of here." The anthem and the minute or so preceding and following are now viewed as a celebration of the Trump mindset.

It is actually worse at college events than pro events, despite the political focus on the NFL. Those college games especially in the South draw a heavy conservative white loudmouth crowd who aren't shy to say anything.

I hate it. It was bad enough when the younger singers started the trend of elongating various verses and words, knowing the prolonged version and high decibel level would thrill their peers to shouts of approval. Combined with the Trump aspect I now would prefer to be wandering the stadium or even in the bathroom.

[RobinA]

18. Everything Patriotic

is ruined for me, but I honestly can’t say it was Trump. Wingers did it for me. The songs, the flag, anything red white and blue... I used to fly a flag. I stopped when we set up our concentration camp in Cuba. I sai I’d fly it again when we close the camp. We haven’t, but I wouldn’t fly it anyway. Anything patriotic just makes me think of the nutcase right and their military worshipping, gun-loving, hating followers.

And I will no longer stand for the anthem, which I did before.

[Dave Starsky]

21. Me too. And I was Mr. Flag Flying Patriotic American.

I grew up deeply loving this country and everything it stood for. I flew a flag, and I kept it clean and folded when it wasn't on the staff outside my house. But now I can't do that. I can't do it, because I will invariably be mistaken for some ignorant racist jackhole who loves Trump and everything he stands for.

[rurallib]

19. No - Nixon, Reagan and 2 Bushes and the treatment of minorities have had me sitting

for quite a while. fortunately for us we don't test it in public very often else I think right now we'd have some problems.

[irisblue]

20. Ruined the thumbs up.

F that guy

[Dave Starsky]

23. That's the other thing! No more thumbs up.

I used to use that as a gesture of approval all the time. Can't do it anymore.

[NurseJackie]

22. I've never liked our national anthem. America the Beautiful would be a better choice.

[BannonsLiver]

36. Yep, it's a much better tune

Even if it is a blatant ripoff of God Save the Queen/King. That’s one anthem I’d stand for.

[saidsimplesimon]

26. I'll take a knee in solidarity,

"Oh say, can you see..." is in hibernation, soon the spring will come. imo

[iscooterliberally]

27. I only like the Jimi Hendrix version.

Hendrix took all the lies out and put the rockets and the bombs back in.

[tavernier]

28. No. I don't give him that power.

[RockRaven]

29. The post 9/11 jingoism which contaminated sporting events with over-acted patriotism

which had been thankfully absent the previous decade-plus ruined the anthem for me. It is much worse now, of course.

[NurseJackie]

30. Jingoism! Yes... perfect word! And "over acted" exaggerated patriotism is also...

... an apt description. Even today, I have to shake my head at folks who fly their ratty tattered flags from their homes and car antennas. If they meant it, they'd either take it down, or replace it.

[PJMcK]

31. No, it's always been a lousy song

The melody is tremendously awkward and the lyrics are awful, (read the additional stanzas).

However, I agree with you that Trump ruins everything.

[dalton99a]

32. America is bigger than that worthless, useless, ugly, lying, good-for-nothing, treasonous,

Putin's-cock-sucking, evil piece of shit

[lpbk2713]

33. I'd stand to moon him.

I wonder if that might catch on.

[Blue Owl]

34. By the Don's early blight...

n/t

[BannonsLiver]

35. I've always thought our anthem sucked

So that’s one thing he has t ruined for me. I’ll take the small victories at this point.

[Raine]

37. Only if YOU let him

you're the one giving him the power to take something you enjoy away from you.

[Sailor65x1]

38. Not a chance; Sabatini said it best...

"The country is all, sir; the sovereign naught. King James will pass; others will come and pass; England remains, to be honourably served by her sons, whatever rancour they may hold against the man who rules her in their time.”

From "Captain Blood"