Anthem of the clueless

He's a crude man-child whose only consistency is being consistently wrong about virtually everything, except when he's being consistently and intentionally misleading.

And so no surprise Our Only Available President disinvited the Super Bowl champion Eagles from the traditional White House visit, on account of some of them decided not to show up for a photo op with a man who's called NFL players  "sons of bitches." That OOAP did the disinviting with a series of infantile taunts about the National Anthem and how the players couldn't hide from it in the locker room at HIS White House was entirely in character for him -- if character is in fact a word you can ever use in relation to him.

OOAP has always deliberately misrepresented the players' anthem protests, which of course are not and never have been about the anthem or the troops or disrespecting America at all. He's done this because he's as pure a demagogue as ever occupied the Oval Office, and his rants about these "unpatriotic" players are the sort of phony red meat that is the sustenance for any demagogue. And he's done it because he doesn't acknowledge as legitimate what all the respectful kneeling really was about -- African-Americans winding up dead in situations where they shouldn't, and how America would be greater again (to coin a phrase) if that didn't happen as often.

None of that, shall we say, fits OOAP's worldview. And that means exactly what you think it means.

The ironic thing?

None of the Eagles participated in the protests. So hard telling to whom OOAP thought he was aiming his taunting.

Then again, facts never matter very much to demagogues.

I mean, the man who was wrapping himself in the flag with such zeal?

When it was his turn to stand up for it, he did more than just kneel. He fled.