I’ll bet he told them about his great Electoral College victory and the record crowds at his Inauguration. To finish his visit he led them in a rousing chant of “LOCK HER UP!!!”
Top stripe is red, then he left the next two white, then he colored in a blue one.
My first reaction is to laugh. My second is to recall how a common screening for Alzheimer’s is to have the patient draw an everyday object like a clock. For some reason people that are otherwise hiding their decline very well often fail that test, and so it’s an early indicator that something’s seriously wrong.
Skeletor, please don’t try to diagnose. And as for coloring the “blue stripe”, I suspect there are a lot of people who revere the flag, but have no idea how it is really colored, unless they are looking at it. This coloration fits with what I have seen in lots of people who do not have Alzheimer’s, but who just parrot the flag worship without thinking about it much. It’s about America, the flag, and God (not necessarily in that order), but when put on the spot to properly identify any of them, they fall short. So maybe senile dementia, maybe just obliviousness.
With all due respect, iknklast, I think if Trump is showing clear signs of dementia that concerns the whole country, so I do not think anyone should refrain from pointing it out. I’ve seen several people decline from Alzheimer’s, and Trump manifests many of the symptoms they had.
I also think you are far too generous about people just having a vague idea of what’s on the American flag. I’d agree with exact placement of the 50 stars and maybe the number of stripes, but I think if you live in the US you see it so often you just can’t miss that it’s red and white stripes and white stars on a blue field. If you later don’t remember that, then I think that’s a serious concern.
The only plausible explanation I’ve seen that isn’t concerning is that maybe one of the kids asked him to draw a blue stripe and he went along with it to be nice.
No, that’s not how human cognition works. You can see something every day and still not remember it accurately. Familiarity is not at all the same thing as exact memory. Familiarity would probably cause us to notice a purported American flag with all blue and white stripes, but that’s different from remembering in the abstract that all the stripes are red or white.
I’m surprised that no-one is pointing out what is obvious to me, a foreigner. Every child in a public school in the US is expected to stand and pay homage to the flag every morning. So, there has to be a flag hanging in every classroom. Memory isn’t required.
What’s he doing, getting them to sign NDAs?
What he’s doing is using a blue marker to color a stripe in the American flag. The one he loves so much. And apparently hasn’t seen.
Yeah but at least he isn’t KNEELING.
Oh God! Is that really the Stars and Stripes he’s trying to colour? In blue? I hope one of the kids put him right.
Amongst his intellectual peers at last.
Holms, don’t imply those kids are down on the Donald’s intellectual level.
Well, Donnie’s confusion is understandable. His allegiance is to a country that does have blue, red, and white stripes on its flag.
I’ll bet he told them about his great Electoral College victory and the record crowds at his Inauguration. To finish his visit he led them in a rousing chant of “LOCK HER UP!!!”
Yep, he colored a blue stripe on an American flag:
https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/twitter-trolls-donald-trump-for-colouring-the-american-flag-incorrectly-1906344
A clearer picture here:
https://mobile.twitter.com/SecAzar/status/1033142676424679425/photo/3
Top stripe is red, then he left the next two white, then he colored in a blue one.
My first reaction is to laugh. My second is to recall how a common screening for Alzheimer’s is to have the patient draw an everyday object like a clock. For some reason people that are otherwise hiding their decline very well often fail that test, and so it’s an early indicator that something’s seriously wrong.
Skeletor, please don’t try to diagnose. And as for coloring the “blue stripe”, I suspect there are a lot of people who revere the flag, but have no idea how it is really colored, unless they are looking at it. This coloration fits with what I have seen in lots of people who do not have Alzheimer’s, but who just parrot the flag worship without thinking about it much. It’s about America, the flag, and God (not necessarily in that order), but when put on the spot to properly identify any of them, they fall short. So maybe senile dementia, maybe just obliviousness.
With all due respect, iknklast, I think if Trump is showing clear signs of dementia that concerns the whole country, so I do not think anyone should refrain from pointing it out. I’ve seen several people decline from Alzheimer’s, and Trump manifests many of the symptoms they had.
I also think you are far too generous about people just having a vague idea of what’s on the American flag. I’d agree with exact placement of the 50 stars and maybe the number of stripes, but I think if you live in the US you see it so often you just can’t miss that it’s red and white stripes and white stars on a blue field. If you later don’t remember that, then I think that’s a serious concern.
The only plausible explanation I’ve seen that isn’t concerning is that maybe one of the kids asked him to draw a blue stripe and he went along with it to be nice.
No, that’s not how human cognition works. You can see something every day and still not remember it accurately. Familiarity is not at all the same thing as exact memory. Familiarity would probably cause us to notice a purported American flag with all blue and white stripes, but that’s different from remembering in the abstract that all the stripes are red or white.
I’m surprised that no-one is pointing out what is obvious to me, a foreigner. Every child in a public school in the US is expected to stand and pay homage to the flag every morning. So, there has to be a flag hanging in every classroom. Memory isn’t required.
Ah yes. I didn’t go to a public school, is my excuse.
In defense of people who do not pay attention to detail I would not get the colors right. But the kids look smarter.