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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConcerning Trump and his coloring of the flag.
You know, I've been chuckling and making fun of him for how he colored the flag by making a stripe blue.
As I sit here on a sleepless night, I'm thinking that this is more than disturbing, in spite of the initial hilarity of it all.
The guy is sitting there with some markers in front of him, and he is attempting to color the flag. I can't remember the colors of the markers he had, but I'm sure that there were not too many different colors. So he has a choice of a limited number of colors. Then, he has to visualize our flag, and color it in. And he makes a blue stripe.
He visualizes the flag, and makes a blue stripe. The POTUS, the so called leader of the free world, makes a blue stripe on the flag of the country he leads. While cameras are on him. The POTUS cannot recall what our flag looks like.
Mental decline? Stupidity? Whatever it is...this man can blow up the world in 5 minutes and cannot color in the flag correctly.
Jesus Christ.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,444 posts)until just now. It is indeed funny, but when you think of it in terms of the power he wields...it's like a horror novel turned into reality.
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,076 posts)Leaving aside all decorations other than strips (and leaving aside that he left two white stripes), it is closest to Croatia, The Netherlands, and Paraguay - all of which have red-white-blue. Unlike Russia, which is white-blue-red.
TexasTowelie
(112,252 posts)With all that time Trump spent hugging the flag and he can't remember what it looks like? At least his three wives were animate to respond to his inattention.
Trump probably can't recognize them (the flag & the wives) in photos either.
area51
(11,911 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)Where the blue goes on our US flag is a sign of serious cognitive decline which can be caused by certain drugs, dementia and a few other things.
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)for the Stop Kavanaugh rally. It had his hand with a judge's gavel coming down on the flag and smashing it. Some women at the INDIVISIBLE set-up admired it and one said, "Oh look, YOU know how to color the stripes correctly" and we all laughed but also shook our heads. TRump was seated next to kids that had a copy of the flag to assist them with coloring. He can't even copy from a simple picture! Yes Mr. Tillerson, he IS a fucking moron!
KelleyKramer
(8,969 posts)I have seen him do that more than once
The simplest answer is usually correct ...
He doesn't remember what it looks like because he is dumber than a box of rocks
JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)It's some stupid symbol of support for police in response to the Black Lives Matter movement.
I don't know if it's exactly the same as the one Trump drew, but it figures Trump would like that.
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,010 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)...but this is the 'blue lives matter" flag
https://www.amazon.com/American-Enforcement-Officers-Non-Fade-Polyester/dp/B01J9IUEQ8/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1535386987&sr=8-8&keywords=thin+blue+line+flag
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,010 posts)Nothing like "thin blue line" flag
JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)...or we can assume he's making a calculated statement in support of police in cases where black people are gunned down. I prefer the latter explanation:
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Bernardo de La Paz
(49,010 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)Uniformed police is one of the three legs of a dictatorial stool, including the military and blue collar workers. Everyone else falls into line or fades into irrelevance. Trump will always pander to those groups, the late senator notwithstanding.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,010 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)I haven't seen the vid. If he couldn't even color the right line, I have to cede some stupidity.
Ms. Toad
(34,076 posts)nor was it surrounded by black stripes.
bdamomma
(63,877 posts)him to colour the Russian flag, he probably wouldn't have succeeded that either. Stupid POS.
True Blue American
(17,986 posts)The red marker was in his hand.
If you have ever seen a person with dementia that is one of the signs. Messing up paperwork. I can not tell you how many I know showed that pattern. That is probably why Trump can not concentrate so they give him one page reports.
Trump also repeats constantly. Keeps going back to the same subject. Repeat themselves over and over. He is still going on about Hillarys emails.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,010 posts)safeinOhio
(32,690 posts)cup size.
pnwest
(3,266 posts)a complete fucking asshole who is not in decline at all, but a master at trolling and distraction. Which is something Ive wondered more than once.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)It's so sad that everyone, his family included know it and are using him to get what they want. If he thinks these people will be his friends he will do whatever they want, he has no clue what he's doing. My father had dementia for years and there's no way I would have let him do things to have people laughing at him.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)She said she's known him 15 years and at the beginning of that time she thought he was very sharp. Said now there is a definite decline.
tblue37
(65,408 posts)MrsCoffee
(5,803 posts)bdamomma
(63,877 posts)nt
Ms. Toad
(34,076 posts)Not white-blue-red.
MrsCoffee
(5,803 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,076 posts)That's not what he colored.
(He didn't actualy color the flag of any country - but the colors were not correct for either US or Russian.)
boston bean
(36,221 posts)Ignoramous.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)I don't think so. I doubt he would be okay with children outperforming him, even with a simple art/civics project.
I have wondered if he is colorblind in some respect, but he would have to be totally colorblind to not see the difference between red and blue, from what I've read.
mainer
(12,022 posts)She blames it on all the diet soda he drinks. This is just one more piece of evidence.
btw, I didn't know about the link between diet soda and dementia. But here it is:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/diet-soda-and-dementia-what-you-need-to-know/
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)I doubt he has ever looked closely at it. I further believe that his brain is so addled that he can't remember the color pattern of the flag any longer.
He needs to go.
Me.
(35,454 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)It was weird. He couldn't color in the lines and keep up friendly chatting with children. And then he got it wrong.