The Department of Unsubtle Metaphors continues to exceed expectations
President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
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👨🍳💋
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So he doesn’t care if the flag is disrespectfully laying on the ground in the dirt, but don’t you dare disrespected it at a protest or it’s a crime.
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Perfect metaphor.
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Only the best flagpoles.
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And lurking behind the flagpole, way in the back, was the invasive bamboo… Wait, different metaphor, sorry.
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Only way this could've been more on-the-nose is if a visibly collapsing, burning East Wing was caught in the background.
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My favorite photo to date.
Him returning after the Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Totally exhausted, dejected and humiliated.
Looking forward to one of him at the moment he realizes he is finished and the terror shines bright in his face realizing he is done and it’s is over for him forever.
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Trump isn’t the president. He doesn’t care. He’s an authoritarian grifter rapist murderer who has gotten away with everything in life. Trump is proof there is no God.
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About right for what he’s done to the office, sadly.
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It could also be upside down.
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not again
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The DUM remains undefeated.
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Uncanny
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Indeed. www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/p...
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It's like the visual for an ED campaign. "When your flag won't even fly at half-mast..."
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Was this a failure of his Supersize Me Jumbo Overcompensation flag pole?
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Award-winning photo!
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A very telling photo. This will be in history books.
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My first thought is this MUST be photo shopped. No way would the White House staff treat the American flag like this. My second thought is - any OTHER WH staff might not; this is now Trump's White House and crap like this probably happens every single day. How are you liking the end of America?
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if we were actually following the rules, then the flag touching the ground, "strike the colors," is a surrender.
might correspond to Trump saying "release the files" just to cause more trouble
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Best rely in that thread (paraphrased):
That flag didn’t fall. It jumped.
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"Biden left the flag this way"
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Wasn’t there a scene like this in Olympus has Fallen more subtle than this?
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Thank you. I was speechless when this photo first came across my feed. You nailed my sentiment.
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What kind of American walks by a US flag on the ground and does not immediately go pick it up? No one I want to know.
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Flying in the face of?
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Post of the day!
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I may have disagreed with 90% of George w Bush's policies but I never feared for the Republic while he was president. I look forward to a day when I can feel that way again about an opposition leader.
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That's the new "zero mast" flag position, given where we are.
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Uneven makeup is icing on the cake.
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But, but he was rushing inside to tweet out a complaint blaming Democrats for it.
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Whoa. That is symbolic and he doesn’t notice or care. That is symbolic too.
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Apparently the screenwriters from the last few seasons of Game of Thrones were brought in to script modern American politics.
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This is up there with his pathological denial of the guy who passed out in the WH. An embarrassment of emblematic riches.
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The flag at the WH gave up but I refuse to.
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🇺🇸!!
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All norms have been trampled upon......God save us
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What a perfect picture. Flag down behind a felon President
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Oh, look! It's helpless. I'm surprised he didn't force himself on it.
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Another blown opportunity..Ya gotta wonder how many votes it would have been worth for him to grab a reporter and go over and pick the flag up, dust it off and fold it up rite there..What a PR stunt!!..but nope, NutJob#1 is p.o.'ed at the world .
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But hey! He's walking unaided!
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One that (ahem) flew under the radar was that a bald eagle had to be rescued from JD Vance’s backyard in Cincinnati.
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The country has fallen lower than that flag.
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Is that one of his new flagpoles? Kinda puts everything in his term in a nutshell
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This timeline has the most obvious metaphors. The writer really stinks
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Is this one of his new big beautiful flag poles? Of course it doesn't work.
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It's all so on point. And 3yrs to go.
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It's not like he's wearing a tan suit.
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I loved that running gag from Monte Python…
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Will he have his own flag up next year?
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If Biden had done this the Republicans would've nuked Delaware
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Either didn’t notice (highly probable) or just didn’t care (also highly probable).
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Think about the convoy that would converge on the WH if this was Obama.
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Didn’t he issue an EO required his DOJ to prosecute anyone defacing the flag?
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He doesn’t care.
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Any more on the nose and it'd be a septum
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You win the Internet today.
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the eagle trying to bite him was a good time classic
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A screenplay of this stuff would get you tossed out of every studio.
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I often had to take down a large US flag when the wind blew hard. Let me tell you a 35ft flag in a stiff wind will slap you silly. And every time you are fighting with that flag some drunk will come over and chew you out for letting it touch the ground. MAGA won't say a peep about this.
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So the flag committed suicide when it saw Trump?
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A picture worth a thousand words.
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reminds me of that LOTR scene in Meduseld where the flag detaches and falls to the ground in front of them.
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Be...cause....he....does....nt....care!!!!!
