Jesus Fucking Christ, Impeach this Nazi already

Frank Figluizzi, an NBC News national security contributor, said during an appearance on MSNBC Tuesday night that President Trump erred in ordering flags to be flown at half mast because of the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, because of the importance of Aug. 8 to white supremacists.

Figluizzi, a former FBI assistant director of counterintelligence, said Trump's move would result in flags being raised again at dusk on Aug. 8.

“It’s the little things and the language and messaging that matters," Figluizzi told anchor MSNBC's Brian Williams on "The 11th Hour." "The president said that we will fly our flags at half-mast until Aug. 8. That’s 8/8."

"Now, I’m not going to imply that he did this deliberately, but I am using it as an example of the ignorance of the adversary that’s being demonstrated by the White House,” he continued.

“The numbers 88 are very significant in neo-Nazi and white supremacy movement. Why? Because the letter ‘H’ is the eighth letter of the alphabet, and to them the numbers 88 together stand for ‘Heil Hitler.’ So we’re going to be raising the flag back up at dusk on 8/8,” Figluizzi added.

“No one’s thinking about this, no one’s giving him the advice,” he concluded. “Or he’s rejecting the advice.”

  The Hill

I don't think it's ignorance, and I do think it's deliberate. Whether Trump is smart enough to know about the significance of 8/8 to Nazis can be argued, but the Trump whisperers like Stephen Miller? Come on.  And someone will have surely told him by now, if he didn't know (he did), since Ann Coulter has reliably chimed in to say Figluizzi is a nut-job conspiracy theorist.  Don't hold your breath waiting for him to change the date.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.