Proud Patriot Trump Says He's Joining Fight To Restore Pledge Of Allegiance

[DonViejo]

By Summer Concepcion
July 9, 2019 11:23 am

President Donald Trump couldn’t help but turn red (white and blue) Tuesday morning upon hearing about a Minneapolis suburb’s city council decision to nix the Pledge of Allegiance from its meetings.

Link to tweet

Trump’s tweet came shortly after Fox & Friends aired a segment on the Monday night protests at the St. Louis Park City Council chambers for deciding to do away with the pledge.

According to the Star Tribune, the city council voted 5-0 on June 17 to cut the pledge out of most meetings, due to concerns that some residents in the “increasingly diverse community” may find it unwelcoming.

The Star Tribune reported that last month’s vote was met with backlash at the local and national level, with hundreds of people calling or emailing the city to protest. St. Louis Park City Mayor Jake Spano announced on Twitter later that week that the council would be revisiting its decision.

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[TruckFump]

1. Oh, and here I thought...

...he was removing the "under God" bullshit put in during the McCarthy era.

Shame on me for thinking MF45 would do something in the spirit of democracy!

[trev]

3. We're thinking the same way.... :)

[TruckFump]

10. Stopped me for a minute when I read the thread title

"Restore the pledge?" What he is doing IMO is FORCING it on unwilling persons. I hardly ever recite it and when I do, no "under God." Someone standing near me asked about this one time when I clearly clammed up on those words and asked what I had against God. Duh...? The questioner had no clue that was done by a POS RW who was red hunting. Had never heard of Joe McCarthy. Gads!!!!!

[LiberalFighter]

17. I say under dog.

[TruckFump]

19. Oh, that is great!

Do you think they would notice if I said "under Scottish Terrier?"

[trev]

2. Fake patriots protesting again.

If they really believed in the Pledge, they would recite it the way it was originally written--without the words "under God."

[DinahMoeHum]

8. Funny, when we didn't have those two words. . .

. . .the US was winning wars they were involved in.

We haven't really won any since then.

[RockRaven]

4. Next time a reporter sees him they MUST ask:

"If you know the words of the Pledge of Allegiance, why don't you say it right now? Say it for the American people right now... unless you don't know the words?"

He would

[gratuitous]

5. How can we be free if we aren't all forced to mouth a meaningless pledge?

And if we catch any of you lot not projecting loudly, you'll know the reason why, by the Christ!

[BlueIdaho]

6. "When Fascism comes to America...

It will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”

[Sneederbunk]

7. Won't be long until MInnesota airports are under seige.

[durablend]

22. Nearly the 250th anniversary, isn't it?

[atreides1]

9. Uh huh

It's just words without real meaning...those screaming the loudest don't believe in the concepts of equality and justice for all...

Much like Congress and those enlisting in the military...they just mouth the words...without actually believing in what those words mean or represent...

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. I have come to loathe the reciting of the Pledge

of Allegiance. And I no longer participate, the increasingly rare times I'm somewhere that it's happening.

I'm old enough to remember when "under god" was inserted. I was attending a Catholic school at the time, and the nuns were not at all happy. They actually understood that it violated the whole separation of church and state.

[Everyman Jackal]

12. I can understand a pledge of allegiance to a country.

Why would pledge allegiance to a flag?

[blugbox]

25. It's in the next stanza I believe.

..."And to the Republic, for which it stands"

[Aristus]

13. If another country was forcing its citizens, especially its children, to invoke the name of God

when swearing an oath to the state; every single day, we would have invaded them by now.

[Girard442]

14. Amazing he didn't go directly to...

“Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer.”

[trev]

20. Not to mention

"Kuchen, Kirche, Kinder."

[Hekate]

24. Give it time

[Initech]

15. Really? This is still a thing?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. Is he going to give everyone a flag to hug while they recite it?

[LiberalFighter]

18. Make everyone in church recite the pledge. :)

[ooky]

21. Fascism hiding behind flag waving

again. More government intrusion by the "small government" frauds.

[Hekate]

23. Jingoism & nationalism are ugly. Right after 9-11 some group in my town...

...tried to entrap the then-head of our Board of Supervisors by marching into a meeting with a flag and demanding a pledge before the meeting could proceed. It was not just spurious patriotism: they were trying to oust her from office.

[OhZone]

26. Next he will fight to restore the Bellamy Salute!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute

[USALiberal]

27. I don't like the national anthem at every sporting event either. Nt

[trev]

31. In my Army days

they played the national anthem before every movie in the post theater.

It never bothered me much, but I did wonder what the point was.

[USALiberal]

33. Most concerts I attend never play it. Nt

[mobeau69]

28. Do they recite it before all cabinet meetings in the WH?

[trev]

32. Actually, there's more often a prayer.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/386158-pence-theres-prayer-on-a-regular-basis-in-this-white-house

[MarcA]

29. When the dominant group believes too many of the "others"

are arriving, getting equal rights and especially voting, along with
the "foreign" ideas like "socialism", then there is an increase in
pledges, anthems, flag waving, victimhood, prayers and other
hyperbole. It happens with all groups, just some are more powerful
than others.

[sakabatou]

30. Lemme guess, he's going to restore Christmas too?