LOL.... another own-goal by this White House... the flag is now back at half-staff again

[scheming daemons]

Bowing to criticism by the VFW and the American Legion, they lowered the flag again.

Realizing that he was taking a beating by veterans groups, he relented.


And so he amplified a damaging narrative about himself for a news cycle for absolutely no reason.

[unblock]

1. i dunno. this is a pattern of his.

he gets his insult or his bigotted wink and nod into the headlines and then goes along with the "proper" thing to do. mission accomplished. he doesn't need the flag at full staff forever, he only needed it there long enough for the insult to register.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. Did he cave or did someone on White House staff have some decency?

[BumRushDaShow]

10. He caved

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/flags-at-white-house-return-to-full-staff-after-brief-tribute-to-mccain/2018/08/27/14f5a9b2-a9ec-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html?utm_term=.ac879a064ed8

[Mc Mike]

17. He fixed it. He can fix any problem,

as long as he caused it, in the first place.

He's a real problem solver.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. "as long as he caused it, in the first place."

although he doesn't have his "fixer" anymore so it's real tough work!

[Mc Mike]

21. Trevor Noah did a piece a few weeks ago where T Rump fixed problems

on Tuesday, Wed, and Thursday that he had caused himself.

That was his line.

I can't imagine there are any young go-getter fixer/lawyers who are lining up to take Cohen's place. Sad.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. That's hilarious!

[WePurrsevere]

3. The veterans groups shouldn't have had to ask. It should have just been done. nt

[ginnyinWI]

4. his pattern is to break down under pressure.

He's a weak coward at heart. He has no core principles. When the pressure is great enough he backs down. And as for all of his blustering tweets, he isn't able to look someone in the eye and say things like that. Only underlings, of course and especially women and minorities.

For example, with all his railing against Obama, when he had is first White House meeting with him, he was sweet as pie. Same with Putin or anyone else with authority.

Obama, on the other hand, looked straight at Putin and told him to cut out the Russian interference. Trumpsky would and could never do anything like that.

[RockRaven]

5. Probably every day from now until the day after the funeral there will be reporting on

whether or not the flag is up or down that day. A while week's worth of stories about Trump being petty, weak, and jealous of McCain.

[MoonRiver]

6. Idiot-in-Chief just keeps getting more stupid.

I'm sure the fool was warned about consequences of raising the flag.

[Jersey Devil]

7. Umm, I just heard it was back up again

Haven't verified it, but if true it means someone at the WH just lowered it on their own.

[ADX]

8. Technically-speaking, the flag is only REQUIRED to be lowered to half-mast...

...on the day of and the day after the death of a member of Congress. Of course, that duration can very easily be extended and it usually is for someone of Senator McCain's stature but this is Chump we're talking about so he didn't leave it up for one minute more than he needed to.

By the way, for the record, the WH flag has again been lowered to half-mast so Chumpy definitely blinked

[True Blue American]

15. Trump signed a Proclimation.

Obama did that for Kennedy and Inouye. Shows there is no one minding the store. His ignorance is piling up.

[treestar]

27. He died on the 25th.

So that means today it did not have to be half-staff. Though as someone pointed out, it was less than 48 hours.

[C_U_L8R]

9. Wait. Is it back up again??

Is there a mutiny or just normal Trump dumbfuckery ???

[ADX]

11. Yes, it's been lowered to half-mast again...nt

[C_U_L8R]

12. It sounded like it was going up and down

Half then Full then Half (now?) then Full (rumored on other thread).

Whatever's happening over there in the White House, it seems like an episode of the Three Stooges

[ADX]

13. No, it's at half-mast and yes...

...everything that goes on in the WH is an episode of the Three Stooges...

[dixiegrrrrl]

26. I have to laff at the above exchange

Sounds almost like a Seinfield skit.

Is it up.....is it down....is it back up.



Poor people raising and lowering it have got to be confused by now.

[Mc Mike]

16. Semaphore.

It spelled out 'witch hunt'.

[hatrack]

20. . . . .

[klook]

28. Dit-dit-dah, dah-dit!

[dixiegrrrrl]

29. OMG, I have not seen that one!!!

[Mc Mike]

33. I can't see this vid, at all, even a description.

Is it Monty Python's semaphore version of Wuthering Heights, by any chance?

[Ms. Toad]

24. Are you talking about up and down beyond the process of lowering it?

The flag, when flown at half-staff, should be first hoisted to the peak for an instant and then lowered to the half-staff position. The flag should be again raised to the peak before it is lowered for the day.

http://www.aflag.com/flag-etiquette/

[Still In Wisconsin]

14. "another own-goal" is a PERFECT description.

TRUMP keeps racking them up.

[grantcart]

23. Or Swiss cheese foot syndrome

Shooting him self in the foot so many times.

[LiberalLovinLug]

18. What gets me sometimes is how politically stupid the man is

But I gather his hubris is just too large for even practical political decisions to get to the surface.
Like, why not just bloody-well leave the flag at half mast.....even if you detest the man. It would at least not garner any bad press. Not that his deplorables care.

Or NOT saying there's good people on both sides?
Or insisting you won the popular vote?
Or meet with Putin in private, the leader of the country that cyber attacked the US?

He just does not even think ahead enough, or blithely ignores his advisors, on the most basic political moves and/or statements. Ones that should be no-brainers. Not talking ethically here, just basic political optics.

And that is frankly, what scares me about some future Trump, only one with political smarts who knows not to step his foot into it so much especially when he doesn't have to. I can only imagine that Trump without Twitter, ever, would probably be polling much higher. If he had handed in his Twitter account after being sworn in, and also only read prepared for him by writers, all public statements. If he were smarter, and humbler, that is, he could have allowed a crack PR team to transform him into the shining American businessman and maverick hero for the little guy, did what they told him, read what they wrote for him.

But no.....his own dumb self-centered brain would never allow that.

[Cha]

22. The reason: Insane jealousy of

of a cultivated enemy.

[mobeau69]

30. This is why he is dangerous.

Again, He exhibited a faulty decision making process.

[SergeStorms]

31. The insolent, petulant child...

in the White House shoots himself in the.........he can't see his feet...........shoots himself in one of his tiny hands again.

What a jerk. I hope the Vets remember this, and stop giving him a free pass. Wouldn't it be nice if the Republicans in Congress had as much intestinal fortitude as the Vets?

[James48]

32. US Flag Code:

US Flag Code, 4 U.S.C. § 7(m) states that the proper etiquette is for the flag to be at half-staff on the day of the death of a sitting Congress member, and the following day.

It was- and is-proper for it to be at full height today.

But apparently too many people thought it should be down again, so he buckled and put it down again.

Unless somebody else died. (?)

The man not only has no soul, and no moral compass- he doesn’t even have the balls to do the right thing against public outcry.

LOSER

[Daddy J]

34. ... and a .. sphincter says what??

Wonder what General Kelly (who works right next to the Oval Office) had to say about all this? Not honoring the late John McCain is exactly what we expect from a vindictive, ass-hole, 9-year old, spoiled f---ing brat such as our poser president. General Kelly better have whooped Trump's ass over this.

[JunkYardDogg]

35. It is at half staff, because

Donny Dumbfuck's favorite KFC was closed by the Health Dept

[Honeycombe8]

36. It's shameful...shameful...that he's an American President. nt

[gordianot]

37. Oh heck at first reading of your post I thought the flag was full staff again.

You have to admit with Trump it could happen. Up and down and up and down

[trueblue2007]

38. Evil man, he tried to bully Sen McCain even after McCain has passed away. #Sad #ImpeachEvilTrump

[gordianot]

39. I have always heard McCain had a wicked sense of humor.

It is so pathetic it is almost funny.