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22 hours agoStop Lowering the Flag
Frequent state flag lowerings for many deaths and observances have made the ritual commonplace, reducing its unifying power and increasing public desensitization.
REPORTER: Do you think it would have been fitting to lower the flags to half-staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin as well? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who? REPORTER: The Minnesota House Speaker, a Democrat TRUMP: Oh. REPORTER: who was assassinated this summer, and the TRUMP: Well, if the Governor had asked me to do that, I would have done that, but the Governor of Minnesota didn't ask me.