So I was reading this anon's tweet: https://voat.co/v/QRV/4168862 regarding "12/17 Hidden Gem in Dan Scavino Image Twat: Zoom in to the folded Flags and you'll see "Lexington" and "Abeyance".
Someone had asked "was it shopped?" meaning the word "lexington" so I zoomed in and realized that it was actual streamers on the flag and no, definintely not photoshopped. They're battle streamers. Anyway, long story short, found an Atlantic article from 2017 (Which I will NOT link to here because it ended up being a hit piece but this information is interesting and I did not realize this before.) --
Here is the gist:
Donald Trump's Telling Change to the Oval Office
The president is returning to a freshly renovated White House—and it includes an unusual display.
Most previous presidents contented themselves with two large flags behind their desk. One, naturally, is the stars-and-stripes American flag. The other is the blue flag bearing the presidential seal. Trump has at least tripled that: In the photos of the new Oval Office, we see three U.S. flags and three presidential ones.
The mainly white flag nearest his desk is the Army’s; the red one is the Marine Corps’s. (I can’t tell from this photo whether the other three service banners are there as well.)
But that’s not all. As commander-in-chief of all United States armed forces, the president is frequently in places where the battle flags of the five branches of service are displayed. (For the record: Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Air Force.) Those flags are adorned with “battle streamers” for the campaigns in which the services have seen action. There are a lot of these streamers. The Army’s flag has nearly 200, which hang so densely that it’s hard to see the flag itself.
Presidents are used to the battle flags. The flags are in some meeting rooms where the president spends time, and sometimes behind him on stage. Dwight Eisenhower—West Point graduate, former five-star Army general—had the Army flag sentimentally at one end of the Oval Office.
But with some exceptions, presidents have largely kept the battle flags out of the Oval Office. Their decisions even follow a Chickenhawk-style pattern: The more closely a president has been involved with the military, the less likely he is to make a military-flag display.
I find that very interesting. That last line "the more closely a president has been involved with the military, the less likely he is to make a military-flag display", I think a more honest description of that would be: The more a President has gotten our troops into needless, endless wars for the military industrial comples, the less likely he is to make a military flag display.
He is the first REAL President FOR the people that the Oval Office has seen in a very, very, VERY long time and he understands the TRUE purpose of the military and respects the Military. He is NOT a military industrial complex President.
And this too, of course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BREos5woyXc
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26891630? ago
https://voat.co/v/QRV/4168862 OP here. Nice work expanding on my post. It feels moar like the teamwork we used to have when this sub was newish.
26893719? ago
ha, I know exactly what you mean.