I’m confused by the word “trophy.”
This is a display box for the flag that is given (or sent) to a family member after a veteran’s death. I have a flag for my husband and a flag for my father. I was given the one for my husband by the honor guard at his funeral. My mother was sent the one for my dad. I bought the box at the PX.
My wife’s grandmother had one like that with the flag that draped her husband’s coffin. It looks like Jr’s has a name plate on it, so it may be a gift. Even so, I would consider it bad taste to display a memorial to a fallen serviceman like a decoration to show off one’s “patriotism.” But this is a Trump we’re talking about, so taste wouldn’t enter into it.
I despise every member of trump’s family and the very air they breathe, but my husband’s flag sits on a shelf in my office in a box just like that one because I’m proud of his service in Viet Nam. It has nothing to do with my patriotism or lack of. Is that “displaying” it? Is that “bad taste”? Would the flag be better in the bottom drawer of a dresser somewhere? I don’t get your point. <puzzled>
I mean “trophy piece” in the sense of something you display on a shelf.
As far as I know, a triangular box is the standard way to display a flag on a shelf. I’ve never seen a flag kept on a shelf any other way. The military services aren’t the only ones who give flags as gifts.
There’s a difference between having such a flag in a place of respect in your house, where you and your guests can see it, and going out of your way to put it in the background of your internet video so that everyone can see how Super Patriotic™ you are. I guarantee it that every element in that frame has been considered, debated, and chosen on the basis of how it affects Junior’s image.
That is what is distasteful here. Would you use your husband’s flag as a prop in some social media post for no better reason that to make yourself look better? I suspect not.
Sorry, I don’t think I made myself clear.
The flag was your husband’s; you’re displaying it as a memorial to him. My wife’s grandmother had her husband’s on the mantle next to his service display as a memorial to him. Jr has this flag prominently displayed on a shelf behind him next to what looks like a rosary while he drunkenly rants about whatever bullshit has wormed its way into his head. Unless I’m mistaken, he has not lost any family member who was a veteran, so it must be a gift. Considering the Trump family’s lack of taste, I do not think my assumption that the flag is there for him to to show off how “patriotic” he is is too far off.
I had the still frame up as I was writing this, and I just have to say, “My god, those are some yellow teeth.”
You’re good ThelmaLou.
My father was in the military. Never saw combat but we received the flag at his funeral. My brother has it in his house.
I think that is pretty much standard protocol for honorably discharged veterans. The folded flag is given to the closest family member to display as they wish.
Perhaps Junior had a relative that was in the military and it was given to him. Or perhaps he bought it on eBay. Considering the transgressions of that entire family, this is small potatoes.
I will give Barron and Tiffany a break though. Tiffany seemed to put as much distance between them as she could.
My father was a WWII veteran and we got one – without a nameplate – from the VA when he died.
Now you can get one with a ‘gold’ personalized engraved plate for a mere $450 at the Save America store!!
Not really but I’ve probably given them an idea, dammit.
sometimes flags flown at the white house or capital are given to people. usually for some sort of legislation or honour given.
that could be why trump jr. has one. trump and members of his family or others who worked at the white house could have flags that were flown over the white house during their time there.
I kinda figured, but thanks for the clarification.
I don’t think that its a folded flag. It only has 4 stars showing in an extremely regular pattern with no partial stars around the edges. I’m not sure how you would fold a 50 star flag to get that. I suspect that its something like “Honorary mention for biggest check signed awarded by busybodies for decency”
ETA: alternatively its a flag case, that came with a picture of a flag inside and he just put it up, the same way lonely people are rumored to buy picture frames and keep the picture that came with the frame.
Yeah, I noticed the shortage of visible stars…
Most (but not all) of these have more stars showing.
If only NCIS or CSI were factual.
“Zoom. Enhance.”
So, like his old man’s Time cover, it’s a fake souvenir.
I think y’all are overthinking it. It’s a flag display case that anyone can buy and anyone can make into a presentation piece to give to anyone else for whatever the ocassion, who can then put it on their shelf as a patriotic tchotchke. Maybe even as some have observed, prepacked and not the result of any actual proper honor guard fold.
We may find that tasteless but nothing prevents it.
Most likely it’s a gift from some Republican/conservative organization. Though knowing him I would not be surprised if he just got it for himself as décor.
Yep. I’ve seen enough flag gifts that it’d never cross my mind that a flag box on a shelf had any association with the military.
Hey! We don’t do that here!
It’s probably the flag that was flying over the capitol building on 1/6.
That would make sense in that a federal building flag would be much larger than a coffin flag, so the stars would be farther apart, meaning there would be fewer visible in a standard box. If you could get one in there.
Kari Lake ran an ad where she claimed she would send the Arizona national guard to the border to defend it from immigrants. But the troops in the ad were Russian.