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Sean Hannity asks the ‘left’ to critique some Trump art, gets owned

Hannity’s been all about art recently–remember his “secret sperm” conspiracy theory?

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Fox News host Sean Hannity, an unabashed supporter of President Donald Trump, tried to stir the Twitter pot on Monday night when he asked people what they thought of a painting someone made of the president holding a tattered American flag on a football field.

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Clearly trying to own the libs in light of the extreme backlash he faced after posting (and then deleting) a post about the “scandal” regarding “secret sperm” in President Barack Obama‘s official portrait, Hannity said: “the ‘left’ loves art, and especially taxpayer-funded art that is ‘provocative.’ Let’s get their reaction to this” before posting a YouTube link to a painting by Jon McNaughton.

McNaughton’s painting shows Trump clutching a “shredded, trampled, grass-stained” American flag on a football field, trying to clean it and looking morose.

https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/968300282533892096?s=12

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In McNaughton’s video about his art, he explains that he was “offended” by NFL players kneeling during the national anthem this past football season as a way of protesting police brutality against people of color.

Trump attacked NFL players on several occasions, even calling for protesting players to be fired. The president also launched a petition asking his supporters to show they stand with him in his criticism of protesting NFL players.

“In my mind I envisioned the president standing on a football field after he’s picked up a shredded, trampled, grass-stained American flag,” McNaughton says in his video that Hannity linked to. “He holds to his chest and attempts to clean it with a rag, and he says ‘what are you doing?’”

Hannity’s publicity of McNaughton’s video may have done more harm than good because the responses were exactly what you’d expect:

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