Letter: Trump’s actions are an affront to our flag

(Stacie Scott | The Gazette | The Associated Press) Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump speaks Friday, July 29, 2016, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Remember the apoplectic spasms of patriotic furor over kneeling NFL players who nonviolently protested police brutality? Critics of these peaceful acts of conscience seethed with indignation and outrage at such a perceived slight to flag and country. Others, on the other hand, admired the character required to risk so much in such a public assertion of personal conviction.

Personally, I don’t find a kneeling Colin Kaepernick nearly as offensive as what I witnessed as I observed America’s Dear Leader, in a maudlin public display of faux…