Concerning Trump and his coloring of the flag.

[LuckyCharms]

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]

1. It's very toubling nt

[LuckyCharms]

2. It is, and just how troubling it is did not really hit me...

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]

3. I can't see how it was a mistake or at least total Trump Russian training. He is so Russia.

[Ms. Toad]

35. You know the flag he colored was not the Russia pattern, either, right?

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]

4. I don't get Trump either.

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]

5. I'm thinking it's his dementia. n/t

[WePurrsevere]

9. Quite possibly. Forgetting super simple things like...

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]

6. My protest sign today has a flag drawn on it

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]

7. On stage he has walked up and hugged the flag, literally

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]

8. I see flags with a blue stripe around here.

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]

10. Yep, seen them on police cars lately. N/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. They weren't coloring "thin blue line" flags. It was USA flags. Children & Melania got it right. .nt

[JohnnyRingo]

21. I didn't see the flag Trump colored

...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]

22. Here is tRump attempting to color US flag, so there is no doubt.

Nothing like "thin blue line" flag

[JohnnyRingo]

23. We can assume Trump is too stupid to know how to color a flag

...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]

26. Trump is not that clever but he is that far into mental decline. Sorry. . . . nt

[JohnnyRingo]

30. I prefer not to underestimate him by thinking he's stupid

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]

31. He panders, but no he's not that clever. Besides blue line not on right stripe for other flag. nt

[JohnnyRingo]

32. OK

I haven't seen the vid. If he couldn't even color the right line, I have to cede some stupidity.

[Ms. Toad]

36. His blue strip was nowhere near where this blue strip is,

nor was it surrounded by black stripes.

[bdamomma]

33. they should have asked

him to colour the Russian flag, he probably wouldn't have succeeded that either. Stupid POS.

[True Blue American]

11. The blue marker was lying in front of him.

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 Hillary’s emails.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. While he is wearing a flag pin, w lots of flags in room. Mental decline. He failed a simple test. nt

[safeinOhio]

14. To make up for it, he never forgets a

cup size.

[pnwest]

15. Or - he did it on purpose because he is

a complete fucking asshole who is not in decline at all, but a master at trolling and distraction. Which is something I’ve wondered more than once.

[blueinredohio]

16. When you pay attention to most things he does you can see the mental decline

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]

28. Omarosa said in an interview on Joy

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]

17. The Russian flag has a blue stripe. nt

[MrsCoffee]

18. Which flag was he trying to draw?

[bdamomma]

34. exactly.

nt

[Ms. Toad]

37. Pay attention to detail. His order was red-white-blue

Not white-blue-red.

[MrsCoffee]

38. Um, yeah, he's a stickler for detail.

[Ms. Toad]

39. Not him, anyone suggesting he was coloing the Russian flag.

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]

19. I think he just said to himself, red white & blue. And off he went.

Ignoramous.

[Ilsa]

20. Some have suggested he was just having fun with the kids.

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]

24. Omarosa says he's definitely got dementia.

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]

25. I believe that Trump does not actually visualize the flag at all.

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.]

27. All He Had To Do Was Look At The Kid's Colored Flags

[matt819]

29. And he seemed so intensely focused

It was weird. He couldn't color in the lines and keep up friendly chatting with children. And then he got it wrong.