Donald Trump literally hugged a flag to show his patriotism

Donald Trump hugs a flag. — (Image credit: Gerardo Mora/Getty Images)

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump physically embraced an American flag at a campaign rally in Tampa, Florida, Saturday afternoon after attendees began chanting "Build that wall."

This is not Trump's first flag hug — he cuddled another American flag in New Hampshire last year — but it is his most passionate, as the New England flag only got a delicate side-hug and this Florida flag received a full nuzzle.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.