Unless you were literally living on a different plane of existence this weekend (which, kudos to you, if you were), you could not have missed President Donald Trump‘s three-day-long tirade against NFL players who have taken a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality.
Trump’s repeated argument is that players who do so are disrespecting the American flag.
The issue of kneeling has nothing to do with race. It is about respect for our Country, Flag and National Anthem. NFL must respect this!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 25, 2017
But what does it really mean to disrespect the flag? One man on Twitter broke it down by going line-by-line through the U.S. code regarding the flag and… you might be surprised by what really disrespects Old Glory.
https://twitter.com/koopa_kinte/status/911715150507454464
Turns out it’s not NFL players disrespecting the flag, but organizations.
https://twitter.com/koopa_kinte/status/911715530503057408
It’s also a lot of patriotic Americans.
https://twitter.com/koopa_kinte/status/911715750213189634
Who love to drink Budweiser.
https://twitter.com/koopa_kinte/status/911716125779558402
And decorate their home in red-white-and-blue paraphernalia.
https://twitter.com/koopa_kinte/status/911716614445379584
Most Fourth of July barbeques are extremely disrespectful.
https://twitter.com/koopa_kinte/status/911716800584437760
College football is out of the question.
https://twitter.com/koopa_kinte/status/911717462441365504
But what about kneeling? Well…
https://twitter.com/koopa_kinte/status/911718544718598147
https://twitter.com/koopa_kinte/status/911718979965726720
And as for the men and women in service who may be offended by players’ behavior…
https://twitter.com/koopa_kinte/status/911721957955129345
One might say that should settle things, but… we doubt it.