Donald Trump coloured in the American flag and appeared to give it a blue stripe - Independent

Donald Trump coloured in the American flag and appeared to give it a blue stripe

Posted on August 26, 2018 by Greg Evans in news 
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If you need proof that Donald Trump's head might not be in the right place at the moment take a look at what happened when he visited a children's hospital in Ohio.

Although it's easy to accuse the president of a lot of misdemeanours and gaffs, we're pretty sure he knows what the American flag looks like.

Yet on Thursday, he, Melania Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar visited the Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio for a photo opp.

During their trip, Trump sat down with some kids and took part in the simple act of colouring in the American flag.

The 'Ol' Stars and Stripes' and 'The Red, White and Blue,' is arguably the most famous flag on the planet but for whatever reason Trump started to colour one of the stripes in blue and not red.

This might have gone unnoticed if Azar hadn't tweeted out a picture of Trump's colouring in job in his message about the opioid crisis.

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Alex Azar
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@SecAzar
 The opioid crisis is one of our top priorities at HHS, with a drumbeat of action on the full range of efforts where we can assist local communities. Today, I joined @POTUS & @FLOTUS in Ohio to learn how states and communities are responding to the challenge of opioid addiction.

10:03 AM - Aug 25, 2018

Twitter immediately picked up on the error and they had theories as to what might have been going on.

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Talia
@2020fight
 The President has colored his flag wrong.

That is all.

11:22 AM - Aug 25, 2018

Talia
@2020fight
Replying to @2020fight
Proof it’s real ⤵️

11:54 AM - Aug 25, 2018

Amanda Fredette
@MandaFredette
Replying to @2020fight
If this was because a kid colored it wrong by mistake so,he decided to finish for the child than that's super adorable💙If it was his idea...UGH.

4:30 PM - Aug 26, 2018

Deangelo Vickers
@joshmartin513
Replying to @joshmartin513 @2020fight
HE LITERALLY HAS IT PINNED TO HIS SUITCOAT WTF

1:51 PM - Aug 26, 2018

News Junkie 💯 & extremely nosy 😎
@LeeAnneJarrett5
Replying to @2020fight
This little boy is thinking 🤔..{The President doesn’t know what he’s doing & I can’t correct him..Trump is making my brain hurt}. Poor kid.

1:40 PM - Aug 26, 2018
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moebates 🌊
@moebates
Replying to @2020fight
You just can’t make this crap up.  How can you claim to love our flag, but color it 🇷🇺? SMH

2:26 PM - Aug 26, 2018

Climate Watcher
@pmagn
Replying to @2020fight
Isn't that the Russian flag?

4:29 PM - Aug 26, 2018


It is possible that Trump may have been correcting a mistake made by the child or that he may have just been having a bit of fun.

However, we should point out that around a year ago Trump claiming that athletes who bent down on one knee during the national anthem were disrespecting the American flag.

We are not quite sure if colouring in the flag incorrectly directly translates as showing disrespect to the flag but either way, we can probably forgive him just this once as he definitely has bigger things on his plate right now.

HT Mashable