{"id":5054,"date":"2026-08-20T04:35:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=5054"},"modified":"2026-08-20T04:35:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:35:50","slug":"incredulous-republican-wonders-if-trump-is-okay-after-flagpole-weirdness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=5054","title":{"rendered":"Incredulous Republican wonders if Trump is ‘okay’ after flagpole weirdness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger expressed genuine concern over the mental health of President Donald Trump after another meandering gaffe concerning flagpoles and White House decoration on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don’t mean to laugh because he is literally the president of the United States and makes key decisions for my four-year-old son’s life in the future, our life and everything else. But honestly \u2014 and I’m not saying this as a gratuitous hit. I just mean it. Like, if you were sitting down with your uncle or your grandfather or your parents and they were talking like that, you’d start to ask some follow up questions to make sure they were okay,\u201d Kinzinger told CNN anchor Erin Burnett evening.<\/p>\n

Earlier that day, Trump launched into a roving conversation that Burnett described as \u201ca little odd,\u201d before playing the footage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI donated the flagpoles, one on each side because the White House didn’t really have an appropriate American flag. It had a small one on top. We left that, but it didn’t have an appropriate American flag,\u201d said Trump, speaking with reporters at the DC scrum. <\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd this is a great pole,\u201d Trump continued. \u201cThis is the top of the line. It’s tapered. This isn’t a straight up and down job, which looks terrible, frankly. That’s a tapered poll. It\u2019s great. I’m very good at flag poles.\u201d<\/p>\n

By the end of the quote, Kinzinger was fighting to stifle his laughter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, it’s just we’re in this weird time where we’ve become \u2014 we’ve grown numb to this kind of stuff,\u201d said the former Illinois congressman. \u201cThe obsession with the tapered flagpole, the, you know, where you land your helicopter is plush. We’ve become so numb that we’re not thinking about it. But if you just if you would transport each of us from 2018 to this moment and play those soundbites, we would think we were in bizarro world or Earth 2, or something, that’s not real.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the sad thing is \u2026 there are people right now on overseas, on the USS Lincoln that have been there 250 days, that are working their tail off for the American people. And you have a president that doesn’t seem to be taking this very seriously,\u201d Kinzinger said, his smile fading. \u201cAnd that’s what breaks my heart, I think, more than anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

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